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Will Vanderpool Make Linux More Popular?

Posted by simoniker on from the keeping-up-with-the-vanderpools dept.

Digitaldonkey writes "New Scientist is reporting that Intel's forthcoming multi-core processor architecture, codenamed "Vanderpool", could undermine Microsoft's dominance by letting other operating systems run simultaneously more easily. From the article: 'The chip will allow future machines to run, say, Windows XP together with Linux or the Apple operating system as easily as today's Windows computers run Word and Internet Explorer simultaneously.'"

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  1. Re:Cool by BCSEiny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Doesn't anyone else worry about the state of hardware. Current processors are getting smaller dies yet they are getting huge. The power dissapation allows me to heat my apartment with my computers. We don't need this type of stuff from the processor, you want to run one or another OS just run it. I admit as an Electrical Engineer that the idea is neat and I like to read the technical stuff on it. But I would rather see a complete redsign of the x86 (or a new 'better' instruction set) processor. One that is truely redsigned not a 386 core on steriods for 10 years. I mean there is no reason for the current desktop to look the way it does. A redesign at the processor level will work wonders. Intel and AMD need to let innovation drive them not the market, now I know they need to sell processors but if one of them had a processor that dissapated half the power I would buy that. Plus with a new design with the new 'theory' coming out of research you could probably get lots of life out of something like that. Maybe even more megahertz which allows for the 'New 10000000000000000 instruction per a second processors' "I am thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said, 'I drank what?'"

  2. Re:Apple's OS? by reiggin · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    And you have done what exactly to prove your greater intelligence? Oh yeah. You've taxed the fsck out of your peasants and created a giant socialist welfare hole. Better looking? I don't seem to remember that many Canadians being featured in People Magazine's 100 Best Looking annual issue. Name one. Weigh less? Only because you spend too much money on health care and can't afford to buy grease. That and the fact that Krispy Kreme doughnuts hasn't made it over the border yet.

    Other than that, you have provided us with Dan Rather and a bunch of comedians. Or am I being redundant? Congrats, Canada. You are on a fine path to save the world. Now get in line right behind France.

    And so that I am not off-topic: I'm glad Intel is designing this chip. It's a great way to show companies that they are not souly Bill Gate's DRM tool. And as long as Apple maintains the Darwin x86 code, hope is alive for B.Y.O.M. (build your own mac). And finally: What country leads in chip and computer technology innovation? Oh, that's right: USA.