[Info-vax] Itanium Poulson a game changer

[Neil Rieck]

On Saturday, February 23, 2013 7:29:45 AM UTC-5, Paul Sture wrote:
> In article <34c98eee-495d-4aa2-82ad-a0b25657c03a at googlegroups.com>,
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>  Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > On Friday, February 22, 2013 8:53:52 AM UTC-5, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > > On Friday, February 22, 2013 8:52:48 AM UTC-5, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > > http://hothardware.com/News/Intels-EightCore-HeavilyUpdated-Itanium-Breaks-C
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> > > over-Heads-To-Market/
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> > This article says Poulson is an 8-core ship while I seem to recall previous 
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> > publications saying 4-8 cores (never knew what that meant other than the chip 
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> > might be available in two versions but that was just speculation on my part). 
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> > Does anyone know the correct answer?
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> Neil, I believe you just replied to a spammer who has latched onto the 
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> fact that Itanium is a subject discussed here.
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> That address was already in my killfile.
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> Paul Sture

:-)