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Good to hear back so soon...

1. Thanks.
2. Glad we can agree.
3. "The Cell is a..." From what I've read about it,it is rather more than simply a multi-core Power5. The basic design appears to be intended to have variable numbers of auxilliary logic blocks of various types to permit tailoring the processor to the intended task while preserving a common instruction set. It *sounds* revolutionary; time will tell.
4. No one said to count Intel out on performance but flexibility in applicaiton of a single processor family. Intel has no single chip series that is appropriate for cellular telephones through super computers; that is what has been claimed for the Cell family.
5. "Yeah and Java..." True; not yet and maybe never. The Java vs .NET battle is just being joined and it's too early to pick a winner.
6. Yes; Windows *did* run on Alpha. And MIPS. And PA-Risc. And PowerPC. And... the applications needed to be ported to each (recompiled, at least) because MS failed to provide a true hardware abstraction layer the app vendors could write to *and* still get acceptable performance on the haredware available at the time.

The application vendors balked at supporting versions for each processor type and MS ceased supporting NT on anything other than x86.

7. "Windoze on Opteron..." My take on recent history is that MS tried to *avoid* Opteron, but Intel stubbornly refused to support x86-64 until *after* MS demonstrated XP-64 and WS2k3-64 on Opteron.

8. "Windoze runs on Supercomputers, too." Yes, but the "too" indicates that MS is not the first OS vendor that comes to mind when discussing "Supercomputers."

Posted by: fmcgowan   Posted on: 03/09/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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