Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the coming-to-a-pc-near-you dept.
Scrooge919 writes "An article on ZDNet discusses AMD's plan for the successor to Opteron -- the K9. The biggest feature will be that it contains multiple cores. The K9 is currently slated for the second half of 2005, which would be less than 3 years after the Opteron shipped."
When shall we be free of the X86?
by
LWATCDR
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Folks we really do not need to run DOS applications any more. If we do couldn't we emulate them. I just do not believe that the IAx86 is the best IA for the future. The idea that in 30 years we will be runing some mutant 128 bit X86 chip makes my skin crawl. I guess I miss the days when new ideas where the norm for microcomputers. Rember when there was the 32032, 68020, TM990, Zilog z8000, the 6502 family, and the 88000? . How about it Transmeta? Let's see a version of Linux that does not run on top of the the translation layer. Lets get some new ideas out there I am betting bored. Now that I said that, GO AMD. While it is still X86 this is one of the more interesting ideas I have seen for a while.
-- See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
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Folks we really do not need to run DOS applications any more. If we do couldn't we emulate them. I just do not believe that the IAx86 is the best IA for the future. The idea that in 30 years we will be runing some mutant 128 bit X86 chip makes my skin crawl. I guess I miss the days when new ideas where the norm for microcomputers. Rember when there was the 32032, 68020, TM990, Zilog z8000, the 6502 family, and the 88000? . How about it Transmeta? Let's see a version of Linux that does not run on top of the the translation layer. Lets get some new ideas out there I am betting bored.
Now that I said that, GO AMD. While it is still X86 this is one of the more interesting ideas I have seen for a while.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.