Re:When will it go back to the CPU?
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When your CPUs floating-point throughput is a factor of 1000 better, that's when. In other words, at the rate at which general-purpose CPU technology advances, you'll be at that level of performance in about 15 years.
Ah... those were the days :-)
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I remember when the PeeCees had EGA or lowly CGA (which looked terrible, by the way) or even no graphics at all other than the graphics characters available to MS-DOS. PeeCee graphics cards were expensive to get even rudimentary high-res and color (16 if you were lucky) whereas "home" computers like the Amiga and ST had higher resoltiom, greater colour depth and some hardware acceleration (blitting). These machines were never taker seriously because their advanced graphics and sound capabilities were considered frivolous in the busness world.
UltraSPARC IV will be out RSN. Anyway, I doubt that a 2-way Opteron could beat a 72-way E15k with UltraSPARC III processors. In fact, I'm sure that my old 8-way E4500 (UltraSPARC II, 400MHz) from many years ago could keep pace with a 2-way Opteron box on multithreaded applications. Remember though, 5 years is an order of magnitude in the computer world.
so Sun will become Dell or HP???No way. Sun is still doing massive amounts of R&D. Sun still has SPARC going forward c.f. Dell who just ship commodity intel stuff and HP who are abandoning everything for itanic.
Sun is introducing these Opteron servers to compete at the low end.
Sun also develops its own OS - Solaris - which it is able to offer cheaper than Linux on the same hardware.
Because of Dell and HP's close alliance with intel, do not expect to see them shipping any Opteron (or any other AMD for that matter) processors in the near future.
Maybe in 2005 when AMD has taken the lion's share of the x86 market, we will see a much smaller intel, Yamhill processors and the end of the 32-bit intel architecture. itanic will have sunk.
Hey, what do I know? I'm just a mad AMD and Linux zealot. So you can take what I say with a very large pinch of salt.
What was that planet in Hitchhikers Guide that was such a popular tourist destination that visitors were weight upon arrival and departure, and any discrepancy had to be excreted or surgically removed?
Makes one think.
Re:it's pretty obvious...
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FPC moreover is tinkering with PPC, Sparc and Arm, and there is serious hope this will be up and running with lazarus in late spring next year
Why doesn't Free Pascal use the gcc backend? Wouldn't that instantly give it portability across all architectures supported by gcc?
Back in the day (1994/1995 my memory is hazy) when the WWW was just starting to become popular, and Netscape was taking off (and over from NCSA Mosaic), a certain company called Microsoft bought some rights or something to Mosaic and it became Internet Explorer.
Now, please hang on to your hat, sit down and drink a large wisky.
Last year I saw a documentary about this on the BBC. However, knowing the current standard of BBC journalism, it was probably a pile of fetid dingoes kidneys. They said that it was a plot by Catholics to overthrow the King who was too tolerant of protestantism. Catholics had to go into hiding, hencs the "priest holes" in many houses of the day. Politics and Religion are far too complex for me. I are an injunear after all.
Yes, but the Great Fire didn't turn England back into a Catholic country. The whole of Western history would have been different if old Guido (Guy) Fawkes had succeded. There was more to it than merely destroying property and the government.
And why should they care whether the real perpetrator is caught and punished as long as someone is and held up as an example to others. Knowing the way lawyers, politicians, tabloid newspapers and other tyrants work, mud sticks.
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When your CPUs floating-point throughput is a factor of 1000 better, that's when. In other words, at the rate at which general-purpose CPU technology advances, you'll be at that level of performance in about 15 years.
The rest, as they say, is history :-(
Techno techno handbag disco.
Ah, then you are not fimiliar with the work of REM?
UltraSPARC IV will be out RSN. Anyway, I doubt that a 2-way Opteron could beat a 72-way E15k with UltraSPARC III processors. In fact, I'm sure that my old 8-way E4500 (UltraSPARC II, 400MHz) from many years ago could keep pace with a 2-way Opteron box on multithreaded applications. Remember though, 5 years is an order of magnitude in the computer world.
They certainly are not giving up on R&D. They are introducing low-end Opteron boxes to get a bigger share of the comodity server market. That is all.
No, that would be the good ship itanic.
Sun is introducing these Opteron servers to compete at the low end.
Sun also develops its own OS - Solaris - which it is able to offer cheaper than Linux on the same hardware.
Because of Dell and HP's close alliance with intel, do not expect to see them shipping any Opteron (or any other AMD for that matter) processors in the near future.
Maybe in 2005 when AMD has taken the lion's share of the x86 market, we will see a much smaller intel, Yamhill processors and the end of the 32-bit intel architecture. itanic will have sunk.
Hey, what do I know? I'm just a mad AMD and Linux zealot. So you can take what I say with a very large pinch of salt.
Fear not, for the AMD64 architecture (Opteron/Athlon 64) has twice as many registers (integer and SSE) as the Petium 4.
You can't beat sitting in a field on a warm summer's day, drinking 10 pints of ale and lsitening to guitar-based rock.
That is brilliant! It totally made my day! I nearly fell of my chair :-)
No, my miond isn't what it once was.
I'm packing my case right now! When do we leave?
Makes one think.
Why doesn't Free Pascal use the gcc backend? Wouldn't that instantly give it portability across all architectures supported by gcc?
Thanks for that. I remember it better now.
Now, please hang on to your hat, sit down and drink a large wisky.
There was a Solaris (SPARC) port.
Here's my nomination, from the BBC's very own news site.
What a bunch of barbaric morons.
Last year I saw a documentary about this on the BBC. However, knowing the current standard of BBC journalism, it was probably a pile of fetid dingoes kidneys. They said that it was a plot by Catholics to overthrow the King who was too tolerant of protestantism. Catholics had to go into hiding, hencs the "priest holes" in many houses of the day. Politics and Religion are far too complex for me. I are an injunear after all.
Stroike a loight Mary Poppins, we cockerney chiminy sweeps is drawn to Wales by all that laaahrveely Welsh coal! :-)
Yes, but the Great Fire didn't turn England back into a Catholic country. The whole of Western history would have been different if old Guido (Guy) Fawkes had succeded. There was more to it than merely destroying property and the government.
And why should they care whether the real perpetrator is caught and punished as long as someone is and held up as an example to others. Knowing the way lawyers, politicians, tabloid newspapers and other tyrants work, mud sticks.
Sometimes I wonder how I ever figure out how to tie my shoe laces.
That's funny, because the Sun "Java Desktop" is SuSE Linux 8.2 running GNOME and it's selling like hot cakes.