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Dynamic Logical Partitioning for Linux on POWER
An anonymous reader writes "Logical partitioning provides POWER processor-based servers with the capability to do server consolidation and optimize system resources. Dynamic logical partitioning enhances this capability by providing control of the allocation of the resources without impacting the logical partitions availability. Linux on POWER supports dynamic LPAR for changes to physical I/O, virtual I/O, and processor resources."
And for once I drool over something I have only vaguely an idea of what it does.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Apple has just decided to switch to Intel. They are known to pick the underdog technologies in the industry. Power 5 is about to become mainstream, and Intel will become underdog, that's obvious.
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I respectfully and completely disagree. The world enjoys using a 64-bit extension to the 4004 architecture. We like using a single-accumulator processor with 3 "general purpose" registers. We adore the massively irregular instruction set, we like saying "push bp/mov bp,sp" every four instructions. We like the whole notion of putting values in certain (and only those) registers, so we can say "repne scasb", or "mul" or "div". The segmented memory architecture and the segment registers, are, in a word, brilliant. The notion of "near" and "far" calls and jumps, and the fact that the segment and offset are pushed in the wrong order is an endless source of delight for us. The floating point unit, and its instruction set, are nothing short of poetry in silicon. The pipelining and branch prediction are the the epitome of efficiency.
In other words, you are just another sadly mistaken fanboy of an inferior processor architecture.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill