Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:24:22 05/19/00
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On May 19, 2000 at 18:35:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On May 19, 2000 at 13:21:00, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>On May 19, 2000 at 12:09:11, Ren Wu wrote:
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>>>On May 19, 2000 at 03:44:49, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>>>I just deny SMP computers will be the mainstream computers in the foreseeable
>>>>future.
>>>>
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>>>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.
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>>I would call this "hidden SMP".
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>>It does SMP behind your back, and does not require explicit SMP programming.
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>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...
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>>>of course i was wrong.
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>>>time will come when intel put 2/4/8 chips inside one die, as Sun has already
>>>done that.
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>>>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.
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>>And they'll not sell it.
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>>They certainly know that they have much better to do.
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>> Christophe
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>remember this quote, on this date, in about 3 years, when _every_ machine has
>more than one CPU. :)
>
>Time changes.
The changes are not going in that direction. Time is counted for the current PC
concept.
Christophe
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