[wellylug] we're (by proxy) number two!

[Nigel Roberts]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 at 10:26:43 +1300, Donald Gordon wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:14:26 +1300, Simon Antliff <simon.antliff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:06:01 +1300, Andrej <andrej at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> > > Heh - personally I wouldn't refer to machines with 512 CPUs
> > > each as off-the-shelf, even though they technically speaking
> > > may be stocked somewhere ;)
> > 
> > The CPU's are "off-the-shelf".
> 
> The screws and capacitors probably are, too...

I don't know about anyone else, but I've yet to see an Itanium 2
processor on a shelf, let alone in a working machine.

Has anyone actually had a play with one of these on linux or otherwise?