Re: [2.6] The List, pass #2

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 01 August 2002 02:10 am, Austin Gonyou wrote:

> Several companies in Austin, TX were chomping at the bit for people to
> come work on Infiniband technology, but there has been nothing new
> relating to this climate for a very long time...and probably won't be
> unless Intel, HP, IBM, someone with deep pockets and a marketing machine
> can show it's viable for consumer use.

Ah, the austin rumor mill.

According to a friend of mine who works at AMD:

1) Intel licensed that hyper-transport thing when they licensed x86-64 
(Yamhill?).

2) Dell gave people refunds on the few itanium machines they actually managed 
to sell.  (I believe the number I heard was a total of about two hundred and 
fifty total itanium "development" systems sold...)

There would appear to be a distinct trend here, but you know rumors... :)

Rob