From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:05:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: 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 >>>>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:54:56 +1000, Duraid Madina said: Duraid> That's right - _you_ use real hardware because you actually have it. Duraid> Everyone else (figuratively speaking, though it's not far off the mark) Duraid> has no choice _but_ to use Ski. That sucks, regardless of whether or not Duraid> Ski is accurate, fast, or easy to use. Duraid> Anyway, I don't think there's much more that can be said. As Matt Duraid> indicated, we must pray for Deerfield, so I will continue to align my Duraid> holy carpet of hope to Fort Collins/Portland/Carly's hotel bedroom and Duraid> pray for reasonably priced IA64 hardware. Anyone can get access to ia64 hardware at: http://testdrive.hp.com/ They're shared machines, so kernel development is out, but for user-level development, they are very handy. --david