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Analysis: x86 Vs PPC

Posted by timothy on from the stone-age-to-present dept.

Gentu writes "Nicholas Blachford (engineer of the PPC-based PEGASOS Platform) wrote a long and detailed article, comparing the PPC and the x86 architectures on a number of levels: performance, Vector processing and Power Consumption differences, architectural differences, RISC Vs CISC and more. The article is up-to-date and so it takes the G5 into account too."

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  1. Re:PPC comes out on top! by Alrescha · · Score: 3, Funny

    "UNIX technology was created for the x86 architecture"

    In other news, it has been discovered that the current crop of teenagers has invented sex.

    A.

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  2. dang, somebody better tell intel by cheezus · · Score: 3, Funny

    um.... the PDP-11 was an x86?

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  3. Law of diminishing returns by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    The Law of diminishing returns is not exactly a new phenomenon, it was originally noticed in parallel computers by IBM engineer Gene Amdahl, one of creators of the IBM System 360 Architecture.

    As opposed to economists, thousands of years ago.

  4. Re:how long can x86 go? by Blob+Pet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which dies first, BSD or x86?

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