Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

["Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com>]

"Sheldon Simms" <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote in message
pan.2003.08.21.20.17.51.531800@yahoo.com">news:pan.2003.08.21.20.17.51.531800@yahoo.com...
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:38:18 -0400, Charlie wrote:
>
> > Intel and Hewlett-Packard introduced the Itanium processor (64 bit
registers
> > and 64 bit data bus) in May of 2001.  The Itanium 2 processor (64 bit
registers
> > and 128 bit + 8 bit ECC data bus) came out in June of 2002.  The Itanium
> > processors run Window XP (64 bit Edition), Linux (4 distributions) and 2
Unix
> > versions (HP-UX and AIX).  The Itaniums also have a 32 bit compatibility
mode
> > so that it can run old operating systems.
>
> Yes, but they are such worthless pieces of crap that we like to pretend
> that they don't exist.

Well, I am no expert on the relative crappiness of various processors, but I
guess the original poster is correct about AMD being first if we pretend that
all the other 64 bit processors don't exist.

Charlie