Gavin Scott wrote in message ...

>Oh, and as for HP developing a new architecture without having to give
>any credit to Intel, I'm afraid I have bad news for you.  Guess who's
>actually manufacturing all these hot new PA-RISC chips.

It is my understanding that HP is contractually bound to take a back seat to
Intel as far as press releases and credits for IA-64. Something that must be
an increasingly bitter pill for HP. An article I just read from Information
Week Online says "HP plans to discontinue its own line of CPUs around 2001
in favor of Intel's". Intel's????

I did a web search on IA-64 and the only documents that credit HP are those
produced by HP. The others almost exclusively credit Intel. Further, I
understand that HP is considering the same sort of arrangement with Intel on
the McKinley chip. Don't ask me where I read that. I can probably reproduce
the article with some searching around.

It's not so much that I don't want it (IA-64 based HP3000 that is), let's
just say I'll believe it when I can buy one. A lot can happen between now
and 2001. I remember back in 1988 when is was an absolutely sure thing that
OS/2 would be *the* desktop OS as soon as it was released. Lest you
mis-understand, I'm very optimistic about the HP3000 in general. More so
than in years. Just not IA-64.

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Brad Feazell