Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:35:12 05/19/00
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On May 19, 2000 at 13:21:00, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. > > > It won't be hidden. It will look just like a quad xeon of today. And you will _still_ have to use some sort of thread facility to use all the cpus at the same time. Or else you let word run on one, explorer on another, handle interrupts on a third, and play chess on the 4th, just like you can on todays SMP boxen... >>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 remember this quote, on this date, in about 3 years, when _every_ machine has more than one CPU. :) Time changes.
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