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Re: AMD64 for sarge [Re: <rant> Package: ftpmasters, Severity: serious, ...]
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| Chris Cheney 2004-07-09, 4:11 pm |
| On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 07:40:31PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:19:35PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
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> Not really the same. The ia64 was revolutionary, but at the same time
> offloaded some of the hard work to the compiler. amd64 is an evolution
> of the x86, so it's much easier to migrate to.
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> Still, I don't know why ia64 hasn't worked out. I haven't heard of any
> technical reason why it couldn't be mainstream. Seems that Intel/HP just
> haven't bothered.
One fairly large reason is cost. Do you know how much the bottom end
Itantium costs? This many years later from the original release it is
still around $1300. The bottom end amd64 is around $170 already and will
likely be much cheaper in the future.
Chris
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