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Ian Mapleson
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 Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject:
Re: SGI files chapter 11
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Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler wrote:
| Quote: | Add to that the transition to AMD64, which cleans up a lot of the ugly corners
of the ISA and you have a great base to build a world class CPU on.
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Already been done. Russia made a very nice EPIC type core, bought out
by SUN, and buried. Much faster than IA64. Maybe SUN have based
their latest stuff on it? Just a pity it didn't come out as a rival to
Intel.
| Quote: | Maybe we won't see a completely ground-up redesign on the ISA any time soon, but
do we really need one? The ugly duckling is all grown up now.
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Grown up & still dreadfully ineffiicent.
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Ian Mapleson
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject:
Re: SGI files chapter 11
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rambam@bigpond.net.au wrote:
| Quote: | Alternatively, it might be Bill Gates' personal notebook.
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Probably needs to have lots of CPUs in order to be able to
boot Windows fast enough and run Office without feeling like a dog. :)
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