I don't know about the rest of you, but I am VERY happy that AMD is giving Intel a run for our money.
Personally, I was getting REALLY tired of the "new" and exciting "innovative" processors a whole 33Mhz / 50Mhz faster than last quarters every quarter.
Since the Athlon has been out, P3 prices have been plummeting; I've been keeping track of the fall in prices; there is NO WAY prices would have fallen so low without the Athlon goosing Intel!
I am very much looking forward to testing some Coppermine's, as soon as I can get my hands on them.
Sounds like it will make a nice server drive. I know, SCSI is preferred for servers, but a 4.5ms ~70Gb drive is nothing to sneeze at; just think how much cheaper two of these puppies with a PCI RAID-0 controller would be than some nice UW SCSI drives with a raid controller...
Good for Debian! I will certainly check it out; however unless they have significantly improved the installation procedure since I reviewed Debian for CPUReview newbies are likely to have problems installing it. Don't get me wrong, I liked dpkg; but the installation would have been very confusing to a prospective Linux user.
Granted there is too much hype about the latest PDA's, cell phones etc., but there is a far more insidious danger implied by what the people quoted on John's article wrote...
People settings themselves up to decide what is good for the rest of us.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I get VERY concerned when a do-gooder / neo-luddite / congress-critter wants to decide what technology is "good" - what I can use (or even invent).
Is an extremely interesting idea; maybe if it happened hordes of developers would descend on it and speed it up some... all major distributions would include it, and it would be usable for commercial purposes. It would be even nicer if it was released under the LGPL, GPL or the "Artistic" license instead of Suns Community license.
I am not holding my breath; but if it does happen it could be spectacular... those patents make interesting reading; and a Linux optimized to the "native" instruction set of a Transmeta CPU would be something to behold.
I used to be a big Amiga supporter; but after Commodore-Amiga went under (which was no surprise, they did not market the product properly) I thought it was "game over" for the Amiga.
I would be delighted if Gateway/Amiga proved me wrong. Besides, I'd love to play with a Transmeta based Linux box!
I knew there was some reason I have not moved to the States... although I must admit I enjoyed the weather during the 4.5 months I lived in Irwine&Westlake.
I believe the whole problem lies in the Patent office not adhering to the requirements for granting patents: that they be non-obvious to a practitioner of the art.
You can recycle them... I sometimes do. Example: 486SX20, 8Mb ram, 540Mb hd == good IPMasquerade based router for a small business, also serves as local e-mail server (uses fetchmail to pick up mail for a larger Linux box; sendmail queues outgoing mail & fires it out every fifteen minuts or so). Runs like a champ.
With new distributed computing software (Mosix anyone?) more and more people are going to write software for clusters. Definitely there are issues with db coherency, record locking, etc., but solutions will be implemented; after all a cluster is pretty much the only way to increase throughput if an SMP box is not fast enough for you...
I for one am glad that the Cyrix and IDT designs won't disappear; the more competing x86 designs the better. Competition is good for the consumer. If not for AMD and Cyrix we would still be paying $1000 for a Pentium 166.
Sorry, you are incorrect. Macmillan's Mandrake 6 DOES NOT require you to use PartitionMagic to install it; the CD is bootable and very easy to install w/o PartitionMagic.
I will admit Unreal looks cool on '95/'98; to have a Linux port will no doubt attract more gamers over to Linux.
More gamers on Linux, more pressure on video/sound card manufacturer's to provide information needed to write drivers for the cards... sounds like a win-win scenario to me!
I particularly like the $50 one from Dallas Semiconductor (and the uCsimm for $150). In "real life" I work as a systems analyst at a custom engineering firm; sometimes I'd practically kill for a cheap ethernet connection for embedded devices!
I've bookmarked the Dallas page (I already had uCsimm bookmarked); I want to play with that toy... but I'll wait for the $50 version, $500 is too much for such a toy at home.
Yet another sign of the push for the desktop... actually I would be quite pleased if Linux took off as a gaming platform; it would increase the availability of (a) sound card drivers (b) 3d drivers (c) good Linux games.
Now if only someone would port MechWarrior3 to Linux...
Currently it looks like Mesa/GLX will be the default 3D API for Linux; it will be nice to have just one 3D API to support.
I expect some enterprising souls made an 'inverse wrapper' i.e. wrapped a Direct3D layer on top of Mesa.
Are they patenting bus-snooping L1 caches???
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I've been reading the patent claims; so far it looks like they are patenting an L1 cache with bus snooping and write through (does not that describe every current L1 cache scheme?)
Claim 13 has more meat in it; it almost makes it sound like they are caching micro-ops from on-the-fly emulation of other instruction sets... but that is very similar to what the K7 is supposed to do! (and possibly Merced x86 mode)
Sure looks like Transmeta is building a chip intended to be fast at emulating existing processors; I hope they release full documentation on it, it would be fun to design my own instruction set!
If enough (who knows how many that would be?) people state they want the feature left in, Intel might cave to public pressure. Remember the DIV bug? F00F bug? In both cases they gave in to public pressure.
While I have not reviewed it (YET) the Abit BP6 seems like an excellent board; and it has an AGP slot so you can add a better video card.
Two 300A's @ 450A (if it is stable, no guarantees) are an extremely good bang for the buck. I've been hearing that the 366's often will run at 550; but that is even riskier than the 300A's at 450.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I am VERY happy that AMD is giving Intel a run for our money.
Personally, I was getting REALLY tired of the "new" and exciting "innovative" processors a whole 33Mhz / 50Mhz faster than last quarters every quarter.
Since the Athlon has been out, P3 prices have been plummeting; I've been keeping track
of the fall in prices; there is NO WAY prices would have fallen so low without the Athlon goosing Intel!
I am very much looking forward to testing some Coppermine's, as soon as I can get my hands on them.
Sounds like it will make a nice server drive. I know, SCSI is preferred for servers, but a 4.5ms ~70Gb drive is nothing to sneeze at; just think how much cheaper two of these puppies with a PCI RAID-0 controller would be than some nice UW SCSI drives with a raid controller...
Good for Debian! I will certainly check it out; however unless they have significantly improved the installation procedure since I reviewed Debian for CPUReview newbies are likely to have problems installing it. Don't get me wrong, I liked dpkg; but the installation would have been very confusing to a prospective Linux user.
Does anyone have a list of companies using Linux for embedded work? Preferrably large industrial companies?
I design (soft) real-time industrial control software and there are some PHB's at work worshipping the Microsoft CE way...
I'd love some ammunition for getting embedded Linux in the door.
Granted there is too much hype about the latest PDA's, cell phones etc., but there is a far more insidious danger implied by what the people quoted on John's article wrote...
People settings themselves up to decide what is good for the rest of us.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I get VERY concerned when a do-gooder / neo-luddite / congress-critter wants to decide what technology is "good" - what I can use (or even invent).
Is an extremely interesting idea; maybe if it happened hordes of developers would descend on it and speed it up some... all major distributions would include it, and it would be usable for commercial purposes. It would be even nicer if it was released under the LGPL, GPL or the "Artistic" license instead of Suns Community license.
I am not holding my breath; but if it does happen it could be spectacular... those patents make interesting reading; and a Linux optimized to the "native" instruction set of a Transmeta CPU would be something to behold.
I used to be a big Amiga supporter; but after Commodore-Amiga went under (which was no surprise, they did not market the product properly) I thought it was "game over" for the Amiga.
I would be delighted if Gateway/Amiga proved me wrong. Besides, I'd love to play with a Transmeta based Linux box!
I knew there was some reason I have not moved to the States... although I must admit I enjoyed the weather during the 4.5 months I lived in Irwine&Westlake.
I believe the whole problem lies in the Patent office not adhering to the requirements for granting patents: that they be non-obvious to a practitioner of the art.
I use it (and RedHat as well); and I've reviewed both Mandrake and RH6 (and others at my site).
It feels a bit faster, is a little more up to date; and I love the Mandrake Update feature.
If I were RedHat, I'd add similar improvements ASAP.
Will Sun port Linux to it?
Will it be cheap?
Enquiring minds want to know... (and benchmark )
You can recycle them... I sometimes do. Example:
486SX20, 8Mb ram, 540Mb hd == good IPMasquerade based router for a small business, also serves as local e-mail server (uses fetchmail to pick up mail for a larger Linux box; sendmail queues outgoing mail & fires it out every fifteen minuts or so). Runs like a champ.
Another nail in the coffin of the "Not ready for enterprise use" argument. What will the FUDMeisters say now?
I measured 1.4M keys/sec; it's in my review.
With new distributed computing software (Mosix anyone?) more and more people are going to write software for clusters. Definitely there are issues with db coherency, record locking, etc., but solutions will be implemented; after all a cluster is pretty much the only way to increase throughput if an SMP box is not fast enough for you...
I for one am glad that the Cyrix and IDT designs won't disappear; the more competing x86 designs the better. Competition is good for the consumer. If not for AMD and Cyrix we would still be paying $1000 for a Pentium 166.
Sorry, you are incorrect. Macmillan's Mandrake 6 DOES NOT require you to use PartitionMagic to install it; the CD is bootable and very easy to install w/o PartitionMagic.
Hmm.. at least one person at ZDNet gets it... With all due respect to Metcalfe his Linux bashing does seem to be illogical.
I will admit Unreal looks cool on '95/'98; to have a Linux port will no doubt attract more gamers over to Linux.
More gamers on Linux, more pressure on video/sound card manufacturer's to provide information needed to write drivers for the cards... sounds like a win-win scenario to me!
They have been /.'ed out of existence... anyone have any details in their cache? I'm quite interested in this...
I particularly like the $50 one from Dallas Semiconductor (and the uCsimm for $150). In "real life" I work as a systems analyst at a custom engineering firm; sometimes I'd practically kill for a cheap ethernet connection for embedded devices!
I've bookmarked the Dallas page (I already had uCsimm bookmarked); I want to play with that toy... but I'll wait for the $50 version, $500 is too much for such a toy at home.
Yet another sign of the push for the desktop... actually I would be quite pleased if Linux took off as a gaming platform; it would increase the availability of (a) sound card drivers (b) 3d drivers (c) good Linux games.
Now if only someone would port MechWarrior3 to Linux...
Currently it looks like Mesa/GLX will be the default 3D API for Linux; it will be nice to have just one 3D API to support.
I expect some enterprising souls made an 'inverse wrapper' i.e. wrapped a Direct3D layer on top of Mesa.
I've been reading the patent claims; so far it looks like they are patenting an L1 cache with bus snooping and write through (does not that describe every current L1 cache scheme?)
Claim 13 has more meat in it; it almost makes it sound like they are caching micro-ops from on-the-fly emulation of other instruction sets... but that is very similar to what the K7 is supposed to do! (and possibly Merced x86 mode)
Sure looks like Transmeta is building a chip intended to be fast at emulating existing processors; I hope they release full documentation on it, it would be fun to design my own instruction set!
If enough (who knows how many that would be?) people state they want the feature left in, Intel might cave to public pressure. Remember the DIV bug? F00F bug? In both cases they gave in to public pressure.
While I have not reviewed it (YET) the Abit BP6 seems like an excellent board; and it has an AGP slot so you can add a better video card.
Two 300A's @ 450A (if it is stable, no guarantees) are an extremely good bang for the buck. I've been hearing that the 366's often will run at 550; but that is even riskier than the 300A's at 450.
hope this helps,
Bill