| [Rant] HP bound to quit PA-RISC CPU line | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 30-Aug-2001 06:25 GMT by Christian Kemp | 17 comments
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Solar (BAUD) wrote:
The PIV message posted earlier initiated some interesting comments, so I think this one can be just as interesting: HP dropping PA-RISC in favour of IA64 by 2004.
From www.heise.de:
"Continuing development of the RISC CPUs keeps getting more and more difficult and expensive, while Itanium is just beginning it´s lifetime cycle", Brown [Market Communications Manager HP] backs up the HP decission. Moreover, so Brown, Itanium systems will get cheaper simply because of higher production numbers, as opposed to house-made PA-RISCs.
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| Posted by Tronman on 31-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (m0ns00n):
Any OS that isn't Windows failed on x86 because of Microsoft. In the private licence agreement signed by every hardware vendor (not that fakey thing you pretend to read when installing Windows), it is clearly and in no uncertain terms stated that you as a hardware vendor are NOT ALLOWED in ANY WAY to place ANY OTHER OS on any HD on which Windows will be installed and sold to a customer by you as the vendor. And when your OS is on 90+ percent of the computers and a vendor can be killed instantly by you yanking their right to sell said OS because they do something you don't like, well, that's where the abuse of a monopoly starts, and where the US gov't really missed the boat. That's what Gassee (sp?) said recently, and he's dead right.
That's why BeOS failed, and no vendors offer a dual-boot system with Linux or BeOS, even though market research shows that customers would love to have that choice. It is technically trivial to provide that choice, but we all know how M$ feels about competition of any kind. |
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