Quick question ia64 vs amd 32/64

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:56:09PM -0400, Michael J. Pelletier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently doing research into up grading the servers here to a 64 bit
> architecture. I have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1) Which architecture is currently supported more Intel or AMD?
> 2) Which architecture will be maturely supported first by FreeBSD?

At this time the FreeBSD/ia64 port is ahead of the FreeBSD/amd64 port
because the latter has just started. I think that the FreeBSD/amd64
port will mature more quickly due to various reasons, of which one
you mention below. When and how amd64 will surpass ia64 is basicly
an unknown and it may not happen at all.

> I seemed to find more hardware companies supporting AMD than Intel
> with respect
> to motherboard availability.

> In your option which architecture is better and why?

I doubt your business needs are served with my opinion on this matter.
I also don't think that my definition of better is compatible with the
use of better in your question. Hence: the answer is left as an
exercise to the reader (an exercise in speculation :-)

HTH,

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