Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4

bigal3du writes "Hardware-Unlimited has posted new information from Intel that they will be delaying the shipment of the new Pentium 4 3Ghz with an 800Mhz FSB. An Intel spokesman contacted Hardware-Unlimited early this morning to let the publication know that performance "anomolies" have been discovered, at the last minute, in validation testing and the processor will be temporarily delayed for shipment. Full details on Hardware-Unlimited.com Forums..." ninenet points to this PC Magazine article which explains the things that characterize the new chip and also mentions the delay.

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Re:Bah

[lakeland]

Linux was never written to run on the 6502. As I'm sure you're aware from '95, it was written to take advantage of the amazing memory management features just introduced in the 80386. As for bloat between 2.4.20 and the first kernels, yes bloat has increased. The most obvious examples are buffers have changed default sizes to the point a 386 wouldn't be able to fit them. But the bloat isn't significant (less than an order of magnitude) -- it would be very strange for someone to say "I'm not going to upgrade to 2.6 because my computer can only fit 2.4".

F00F bug

[rf0]

Well its better than aother F00F bug isn't it? Then again we won't be able to make jokes like

How may Pentiums does it take to change a lightbulb?
1.9884838483 :)

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