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Understanding the Microprocessor

Posted by michael on from the need-to-know dept.

Citywide writes "Ars has a very thorough technical piece up entitled Understanding the Microprocessor. It's pitched lower than many Ars articles (all of which are a bit over my head, to be honest), but that's why it's worth checking out: it explains the fundamentals is a very clear and useful way. And as the author notes, this kind of information is really crucial to get a grip on before Hammer arrives."

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  1. I went to get Brain Scanned.. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Troll

    I got in the MRI and they showed me a picture of the Hammer, but my boner told them what they needed to know.

  2. why? by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    >> And as the author notes, this kind of information is really crucial to get a grip on before Hammer arrives

    Why? This doesn't explain why Hammer is better at all. Yay, now we can have a rudimentary explanation of how a CPU works, but it'll just encourage more uninformed fanboy type crap.

    Basically, Hammer (64 bit cpus) = larger addressing space, not nescessarily faster processing. That's good enough for me, though.

    But, it's like 9th grade physics students telling you why Einstein is a 'big dumbass'. AMD has Hammer! It better! Intel is gay! bleh.

    Although, it is crucial for /. posters who have no clue how a computer works and just spout BS about how what is better than what based on some marketing benchmarks.

    But they wont RTFA anyways.

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  3. Underdstanding the internals of CPUs by syntap · · Score: 0, Troll

    is as important as understanding the particular interleave method of the Macintosh floppy mechanism. What does Joe Six-Pack care as long as he's got a desktop rocket?

  4. As you say in your post... by mekkab · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think an article like this will prevent comments like:
    "AMD has Hammer! It better! Intel is gay!"

    and will instead promote more educated comments like:
    "AMD is TEH GODE! INTEL is TEH SUCK!"

    Wake me when you kids are running RISC processors...

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    1. Re:As you say in your post... by Sobrique · · Score: 0, Troll

      how about "x86 IS SUK. U suk. Gimme SPARC". Or something...

    2. Re:As you say in your post... by mekkab · · Score: 0, Troll

      Dewd, we just got moderated by "The Guy With No Sense of Humor." He seems to get a lot of mod points...

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