Re: How Intel Can Save the Itanium!

"David Kanter" <dkanter@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
PPC does not have multiple sources if you want high performance, and
in that regard, SPARC is somewhat better.

I count only one source for SPARC, either (Fujitsu). A better point
for your argument is PPC64.

With SPARC you can't really run Linux.

I have used Linux-SPARC systems; I guess they were unreally running
Linux.

- anton
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