[Info-vax] Poulson info from Dave Cantor

[Michael Kraemer]

Neil Rieck schrieb:

> Like one of the comments on the Poulson article states: Itanium has
> always been two (or more) years late for the past 15 years.

Being late is not unusual in that business.
But being late and bringing nothing to the table
that's worth waiting for it, that's the
showstopper I guess.

> So today, Intel and HP are in a codependent relationship. 

No they aren't. Intel doesn't depend on HP.
HP otoh would have to dump their BCS once
intel decided to stop Itanic.

> Like a
> thoroughbred horse, this Itanium thing is capable of really high
> performance 

for what? solving artificial problems like LinPack?