On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:28:46 -0400 (EDT) "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Note that people who have only read the marketing material and who | > don't realise what various non-x86 archs get up | | I know you're very "into" alternate archs especially MIPS and SPARC | (which is great BTW). So is it true that Niagara SPARCs will have | EIGHT cores???
Oh, maybe at some time in the distant future if Sun don't get bought out before they get around to it. Remember that the v9 instruction set is a hell of a lot smaller, cleaner and easier to work with than x86, so it's not necessarily as big a deal as one might think. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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