Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian D Romanick <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:50:01 -0800 (PST) |
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> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > } (For example, have people realized just how large something like > > } KDE+StarOffice is? Imagine blowing that up by a factor of three or so..) > > > > It's a scam to get us to buy bigger disks. > > And More Ram ....
How do you figure? The Merced processor wasn't designed with you and me in mind. It was designed for people that already buy systems with 1+GB memory and several 100GB of disk, and spend $1+ million on a system. Nobody will notice the difference in cost of 1GB and 1.1GB of RAM. :)
By the time IA-64 hits the mainstream, the cost to buy enough RAM for a system will be about the same as today. It will have to be, or nobody will buy the systems! :)
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