Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 12:59:42 10/14/02
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On October 14, 2002 at 15:29:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 14, 2002 at 14:35:10, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On October 14, 2002 at 14:07:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Nobody is going to write an application that does nothing useful, except to >>>scale on that >>>8-way box, because when you try to show how "strong" it is you get killed. >> >>I know a very big very well known chip producing company that made >>a CPU just like that :) >> >>Sales still seem to be going quite well for them. >> >>-- >>GCP > > >I suppose I am in my usual "lost" state here. :) > >I don't follow the connection between making chips and writing a program that >scales >well on a machine with an inferior memory architecture??? Well, Intel made a new CPU that 'did very little useful' except to 'scale' to very high clockspeeds, even though they knew AMD would kill them in a direct comparison. For marketing reasons. Mhz sells. Knps sells. -- GCP
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