The Archistrat 4s Server from the Panda Project Inc of Boca Raton, Florida, which supports multiple processor architectures – PowerPC, Pentium, Alpha – in a single chassis – has generated some skepticism. While admiring the technical achievement, people have wondered what market could be found for the things. They will however, have to be taken rather more seriously with the news that Burlington, Massachusetts-based Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Inc has signed to resell the things. Regardless of processor, the same input-output and memory are used, and to ensure support for future processors, the Archistrat is designed to support 256-bit chips.
