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Subject: Re: "Intel to 'ditch' Pentium 4 core after Prescott"

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 19:34:41 05/07/04

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On May 07, 2004 at 15:31:25, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On May 07, 2004 at 15:27:56, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On May 07, 2004 at 15:20:00, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/07/intel_cancels_tejas/
>>
>>They finally realized they suck...
>
>Probably should use what stock they still have to come up with some kind of
>bunsen burner or personal stove for camping -- lots of heat and nice compact
>size. :)
>
>-elc.



Yeah, but who is going to write the software for it? Don't forget that if the
processor is idle it won't heat up much. So you need to execute something, I
mean anything.

...Microsoft will write the software. An endless loop with a floating point MUL
inside. And it will fit in just 64Mb of memory.



    Christophe



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