From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Duraid Madina Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:55:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Itanium gets supercomputing software Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org You and I both know the only real barrier to Itanium adoption is the price. Can anyone here shed some light on this? Why is Itanium hardware still so expensive? Seriously, IA64 must be the first architecture in history where a software simulator is still being developed 4 years after commercial availability of silicon (indeed, entire systems). Hello? Is anyone home? If Intel thinks an 0.13u respin of Itanium 2 going for $1000 a pop is going to save them from the horrible onslaught of horrible hardware (x86-64 ;) it'd seem they have another thing coming! We live in Carly times. :\ Duraid Grant Grundler wrote: > Gah! > Both Oracle and Computer Associates have ia64-linux product available.