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Posted by bbrv on 03-Nov-2003 14:37 GMT | Cannot resist...
This from an interview with Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux ;-) ), It's a very interesting comment about the PPC 970:
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Q: I'm just wondering if you've formed an impression about the Opteron, and can make comparisons?
Linus: In the 64-bit space, everybody else is completely irrelevant except for Opteron and Power. Nothing else matters. That's just the way it is.
I actually find Power to be very interesting now that they've made the 970. And you can actually buy them in reasonable machines. And you can buy a Macintosh G5 and get a real 64-bit CPU. And I think that may actually be enough, too. There is enough of a user base for normal people that I suspect a lot of Linux developers would love to have one of those. And are ready to switch away from X86 entirely. While I don't see that happening on IA64. Because there is not any nice boxes you'd switch away to, if you were to switch away from X86.
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