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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lan...>
Subject: alef on sources
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:43:50 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Christopher Nielsen wrote:

> yeah. i was going to pick up the port to SPARC, but it's really a waste
> of time. aside from amd64 and ia64, the only other viable 64-bit
> platform is powerpc, as far as i can tell. amd64 is not all that
> attractive to me any more because of the intel ISA and the lack of gp
> registers. i don't know enough about ia64.

You want to get into a machine with a future, do k8 or 970. The vendors 
I'm talking to don't seem to think highly of ia64's prospects. 

ron