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Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium
Anonymous Coward writes "As a follow up to the earlier story "Intel: No Rush to 64-bit Desktop"... In words that Intel are likely to be far from happy with, the Finnish luminary has stuck the boot into Itanium. His responses to some questions on processor architecture are sure to be music to AMD's ears. Linus, in an Inquirer interview concludes: "Code size matters. Price matters. Real world matters. And ia-64... falls flat on its face on ALL of these."" Of course, Linus works for a chip maker ;)
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and go Linus! first was Wintel and now maybe a LinMD to balance it out
Here we go again. Sigh.
...who should be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for immediate disposal. Perhaps they'll pack up the constitution and send it down there with him. Maybe it could be crumpled up and lit on fire and be used to light up the "disposal ovens."
YOU FAIL IT BIG!
what a rushed dumbass post!
You retard of a troll, can't even write a decent troll.
Transmeta is the chip maker, which is even more embarassing. At least frito-lay makes something useful- tasty snacks.
Itanium sucks, ALL HAIL x86-64.
Amd up in ya baby.
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what is the french battle flag?
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a white sheet tied to a stick!
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In words that Intel is likely to be far from happy with.
Intel is a single entity, not a Star-Trek race.
You Yanks always have to have somebody to hate or to blame for everything, don't you?
When we say something is 32bit or whatever, we're generally talking about sizeof void*. Since the 128bit API is internal, the Crusoe is, effectively, an x86 processor.
One big benefit of code morphing is that Transmeta can happily change the underlying architecture to remedy any deficiencies.
No, not always.
We just dislike the French because you started it.
> The thing is there has been so much hype recently about 64bit that people will assume that they need 64bit (of course it will twice as good as 32bit
Only your granny would make that mistake. A geek will know that it's 2^32 times as good.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
SFU engineering kicks ass!
SFU? I believe you meant STFU.
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Since I already have monitor, video, case, P/S
KB, mouse, and everything else...
This is going to be an excellent system... Doom III... Neverwinter Nights... Unreal ][... oh yes they will be mine! This is a great price IMHO for a system is just a hair shy of state of the art. You've gotta check out these nForce2 motherboards, they have got to be the most feature packed boards I've ever seen.
Intel stuff is good, but they have to be a bit too conservative to make really excellent things. My last AMD system was my 386/40 which was a fine machine. I'm looking forward to running this new system. For the price, you can't touch this setup using Intel stuff.
64-bit really is a waste at the moment for the average gamer. Think about it, you have to push twice as many bits around for no obvious reason unless you want to crunch really big numbers or access huge amounts of RAM. I have a 64-bit machine, a HP/9000 C200 workstation, and I run it in 32-bit mode because it is faster and better supported. Think about a big V8 engine vs a 4cyl, the V8 ultimately will develop more power, but the 4cyl will wind up faster and is more responsive.
At least AMD Hammer can run in 32-bit mode (maybe for better performance) but can drop into 64-bit mode if you need that big RAM addressing. Companies with mega power servers want 64-bit so they can load the machines with RAM, but ordinary gamers and power users benefit more from fast 32-bit speed: we cannot afford 3Tb of RAM just so we can play UT2003 on a ramdisk! Better to be able to quickly slurp it up from the HDD as needed, and there is no benefit using 64-bit arithmetic for the layman as we just don't need that kind of precision for anything.
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They're telling you to do it
Grow up and toe the line
They tell you if you do it
Everything will turn out fine
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, what a wonderful life
God, queen, country, colour telly, car and wife
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, what a wonderful life
God, queen, country, colour telly, car and wife
It's great if you can do it, it doesn't take a lot
Just means you must destroy what sensitivity you've got
Well, that's an easy bargain for the things you're going to get
You can treat the wife like shit, own a car and telly set
Slip off in the evenings for a little on the sly
And if the wife complains, fuck her first, then black her eye
There's lots of worthwhile jobs for the lad who wants to know
Lorry driving's fun, you're always on the go
One hand on the wheel, the other up some cunt
Or jerking off to Penthouse with with motorway up front
The police force offers chances for a bright intelligent lad
To interfere with anyone cos they're there just to be had
It offers quite a range for aggression and for spite
To take out your frustrations in a justifiable light
It's a mans life in the army, good pay and lots of fun
You can stab them with your bayonet, fuck them with your gun
Look smart in your uniform, that always pulls the skirt
Then when you've fucked them good and proper
Tell them they're just dirt
Cos man is spelt big M.A.N. it's the letters of the law
Man is spelt big M.A.N. that's who the law is for
You see there's lots of chances in this land of hope and glory
Try and make your own rules, that's a different story
If you're a man, you'd better act like one
Develop your muscles, use your prick like a gun
Fuck anything that moves, but never pay the price
Steal, fuck, slaughter, that's their advice
Are you man enough? Ask the posters on the walls
Have you got what it takes? Guts and balls?
Keep your myth of manhood, it's been going on too long
A history of slaughter is the proof that it is wrong
Big man, big M.A.N., big man, big M.A.N., big wrong
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Big man, J.O.K.E.
Big man, what a fucking joke.
just like you foreign people always have to be bitter that we live in a better country than you?
What? I thought you lived in the USA. Land of the fat and stupid.
>That would leave them with.. Flash memory
Don't they make diesel locomotives to. Im sure I have seen som with a huge AMD on the sides. Or is that anoter company? Appart from that they make chips for network adapters and more.
exactly, so that you'll think twice before killing millions of them again : the abm treaty is a feodal shame and you want only your gang to be equiped with such weapons.
so, you're to blame.
Uncle Sam smells like old Ernie, today...
Actually, these are old lawyer-related riddles...
Now, think about it, fatty : if you get rid of both us lawyers and the French, you'll only be surrounded by rednecks or glish's !
.. BSD is dying!