Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I read an article: > > > http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W > > It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says > is a teraflops device and only uses a low power consumption. > > But the article

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-17 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 21:58 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Could it be that if Intel puts out a chip or array of chips or whatever its > called of this type that the existing OS companies like MIcrosoft and Apple > would take so long to figure out and implement an OS that run on it that > L

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 17:57, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote: >>> Dear Debianists, [snip] > Well, we have yet to really see. But I suspect once the final cost and > dissat

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 16:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Dear Debianists, > > > > I read an article: > > > > > > http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W > > > > It says that

Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 15:58, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I read an article: > > > http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W > > It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says > is a teraflops d

dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I read an article: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=032003A1JK8W It says that Intel has made a chip with 80 processors on it that it says is a teraflops device and only uses a low power consumption. But the article suggests that it is tough to write an OS to t