Re: Microsoft edging toward the brink?

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 11:11 -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> The future is virtualization, dozens of units, massively reordered and
> renamed instructions and registers, etc...  Traditionally this will look
> like multiple cores and threads of legacy ISA (instruction set
> architectures) to traditional OSes.  To advanced OSes like Linux, this
> will look like a massively parallel, reordering CPU.
> 
> Which makes me wonder what Cell is up to.

Precisely so.  http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1.ars

--Doc


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