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[Rant] HP bound to quit PA-RISC CPU lineANN.lu
Posted on 30-Aug-2001 06:25 GMT by Christian Kemp17 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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HP bound to quit PA-RISC CPU line : Comment 5 of 17ANN.lu
Posted by Solar (BAUD) on 29-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (priest):
That 64bit stuff again... (That´s not officially confirmed yet, but I´ll bite nonetheless.)
>>but I want to replace Windows and Linux on my box with AmigaOS
> Does your x86 have a full 64bit CPU?
> No?
> Then you will not be able to run OS5, sorry.
My x86 CPU isn´t 64bit anymore than the CPU in your not-even-yet-available AmigaOne, so you won´t be able to run OS 5 either.
And, if OS 5 is really limited to 64bit CPUs, then forget the whole story. AmigaOS won´t see significant sales that way, and without sales, no market potential, no development, no software, no Amiga Inc., bye-bye.
About 95% of all desktop systems today are x86. Of the remaining 5%, over 50% are 32bit. So you can sell your pretty 64bit OS 5 only to those people that are buying new hardware alongside with it, and a measly percentage of those 2.5% that have a 64bit desktop system.
Where a desktop system goes that has a user base of, say, < 500,000, we have seen in the last five or six years.
You are bragging about 64bit like it´s a good thing. It´s not. It would be about the stupiest move I´ve ever seen any Amiga company make, even more so than the A600 or the A2200.
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