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Nope, Intel compilers are open and available to everyone. They're so common that it's a standard plug-in for Microsoft's software development platform ( VisualStudio ). Intel's compilers are fast but they're not the fastest -- and there are endle…
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Quote: 4) Does Intel have multi-core-multi-proc in the roadmap? 64-bit Dual Core Intel chips are shipping. The slowest one clocks at 2.8 GHx and sells for $241. The highest speed one clocks at 3.2 GHz.
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Quote: I agree with that. The developer machines are far from being top-of-the-line. They are probably comparable (not speed) to the 1.8 GHz single processor model that is being sold now. Like you said, just enough to get by with during development…
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Quote: Have you been watching the FUD flinging?? My god, if it had been found out years ago that they had an Intel project, nobody would have bought a PPC Mac, waiting endlessly for that 'around the corner' Intel box. If you had been hanging out…
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Quote: I'm just impressed that in 5 years a version of OS X built for intel never leaked, or that no one was ever able to run it beside Apple. I don't mean to be rude but this was no secret. There were endless discussion threads on this topic on…
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Quote: I am nearly sure that the internal code of a pentium M, have nothing to do with the one of a pentium 4. The jargon that you'll be hearing is 'micro-ops'. From the point of view of micro-ops, the internal architecture of the Pentium-M is a…
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ARGH!!!! stupid forum software logs you out and eats your your posting.... Quote: The reason I wondered about that is that one often hears about how the Pentium translates the x86 instruction set into a more RISC-like instruction set. Since OS X…
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Probably true. When you're the only guy using PPC, for year, after year, after year, after year... and you see all the other computer companies moving to x86, you know what your future holds. Add to that the not pretty sight of Motorola's CPU …
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The move to x86 was never a question of if; it was just a question of when. First step was to migrate the Mac OS to a Unix like platform and of course they chose the platform that came from Next. That meant porting from x86 to PPC. So basicall…
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Quote: The market cap of Sun is 12B versus 30B for Apple. Yup, sorry about that. I read today's volume number not today's market cap. And to be fair, I should have said that the MPU architectures for these vendors had been forced out of the m…
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Quote: Well, except that all of those companies that transitioned are gone (DEC) or are mere shells of their former selves (SGI, Sun). The market cap. of HP/Compaq is more than twice (almost 3 times) that of Apple. Sun Microsystems is at leas…
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Quote: The X86 chips are no more CISC. Basically this chips are build around a RISC chip feed by a transcoder who translate X86 instructions into simpler instructions codes. Yes and no. The x86 is not RISC but RISC isn't RISC anymore either. At…
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Quote: In the meanwhile, it looks like Intel has put the engineering solutions and process tweaks in for solving the technical problems at 90 nm with a 2.13 GHz P-M burning 27 Watts Pentium-M is the product of the Israeli design teams -- hence t…
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Apple's leaving was not 'sudden'. It's been happening since Mr. Jobs came back to Apple. Darwin has always been the obvious future of Apple. It's not a secret. It's been the source of endless discussion of WHEN, not if, WHEN will it happen. Fi…
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The HP DL380 I just put a fibre network card in has about 6 fans and sounds like a jet taking off... ok it IS meant to be used in a server room.. but come on.. get real... And the Dell 470 Dual Xeon, high end graphics, SATA, yada-yada-yada, boxes t…