On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:38:39PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > The current crop of boards is a marketing-driven thing. You don't get > the best board, anymore, you get what the industry has decided to give you. > > Like the color coordination of clothing, or the artificial flavor of the > month, motherboards are no longer a tech-driven item. The engineers > design what the sales department tells them to. > > They are only intended to last appx. three years. (2-3 release cycles.)
What about if you don't stick with i386/amd64? I know, there are fewer and fewer (e.g. VAX, Alpha, etc). Do, e.g. HP-9000s have a longer design life? What about IBM SystemP (formally RS/6000) which is PowerPC-based? Sun's Sparc64? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
