[plug] ia64 linux = P4? & general Q re speed and if anyone has tried it

[Michael Hunt]

> As for speed, the chips is supposed to be around the same as a similarly
> clocked P3/P4 for normal applications but a lot faster for optimised
> programmes. This is due to its new EPIC architecture (Explicitly Parallel
> ..... something or other!), which departs completely from intel's former
> RISC architecture.

Isn't that meant to be Intel's CISC architecture ???

Michael Hunt