Naoki wrote:
Not wanting to start anything here but.. wouldn't sparc be much more useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;)
Ultrasparc is 64-bit Sparc from Sun Sparc64 is similar, from Fujitsu. TI is in there somewhere too, but I think only as a CPU & chipset manufacturer.
"sparc" generally means 32-bit CPUs. They're faily old.