Jeff is exactly correct in all of this. Itanium is not a Carly initiative and was well underway years before she was hired. And the Itanium 2 FP numbers are very good. - Greg Jeff Woods wrote: > Phil <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>I mean Carly managed to dump a whole lot of money into >>developing the Itanic with Intel and that is a piece of crap. > > > Ms. Fiorina had *nothing* to do with HP developing IA-64 with Intel. > > It has been pretty well proven that IA-64 is inferior (at least so far) > to IA-32 for running IA-32 code. To this point I have read nothing > except good things about IA-64 running IA-64 code. > > My (admittedly simplistic) perception is that IA-64 is HP's PA-RISC 3.0 > (including an EPIC twist that's as radical today as RISC was in the > middle 1980s) and that HP decided it would be great to leverage Intel's > fabrication expertise and (much more important in the long run) > economy-of-scale by getting Intel to build these chips by the bazillions > and sell them to practically everyone in the known universe. To that > end HP gave the IA-64 design to Intel, assisted them in getting it into > production and (IIUC) without even getting a discount on the chips they > buy from Intel. <snip> -- Greg Cagle gregc at gregcagle dot com * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *