Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:21:00 05/19/00
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On May 19, 2000 at 12:09:11, Ren Wu wrote:
>On May 19, 2000 at 03:44:49, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>I just deny SMP computers will be the mainstream computers in the foreseeable
>>future.
>>
>
>When intel introduce pentium, it had two pipes, two ALUs, and the first thought
>i had is, "this is cheating"! seem to me at that time, that intel has run out of
>cards to improve their 486, and so just double the hardware inside each chip.
I would call this "hidden SMP".
It does SMP behind your back, and does not require explicit SMP programming.
>of course i was wrong.
>
>time will come when intel put 2/4/8 chips inside one die, as Sun has already
>done that.
>
>and if intel did put 2 cpu inside one die, everyone will have a SMP machine. I
>have no doubt that this will happen, and probably pretty soon.
And they'll not sell it.
They certainly know that they have much better to do.
Christophe
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