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Inside the PowerPC 970

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-a-closer-look dept.

daveschroeder writes "Jon "Hannibal" Stokes has posted a long-awaited, very detailed analysis of the IBM PowerPC 970 at Ars Technica. Notable quote: 'The 970 was made for Apple'."

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  1. Re:deja vu by Jason1729 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Apples to Apples is a great game

  2. Based on this, by vlvtelvis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm assuming that the new procs must have some kind of support for the evil bit.

  3. Re:Another Dupe by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    speaking of the matrix.....things are not as they seem!!!! bad guys are good good guys are bad.

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    I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
  4. Re:DUPE by class_A · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How the fuck is that off topic?

  5. A thought on how to avoid duplicates by merger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just had a thought that would probably reduce the number of duplicates significantly. At the point where the author hits submit, the story checks all of the links in the article and then does a comparison of those against the complete story archive. At that point if the article has a duplicate it will find it and let them know.

    A problem with this method is what may happen with this story. After the editors typically link directly to the story they also link to the referring domain. A way around this is that if there is more than one link in the story then any link to a base level site (ie. www.arstechnica.com) is ignored and the links focus into the sites pages and folders are paid attention to.

    I may later play around with a couple of searches of the database to see how well this method works, but I think it would improve things significantly.