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Gordon Henderson wrote:
When the ARM first came out I contacted them to see if they could make an ISA board for multiple CPU's ala transputer boards. - should have done it myself!On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, tom wrote:I only buy Intel if there is NO other choice.I buy what suits the system at the time. Currently AMD are lagging in terms of performace per watt - and that's something that very important right now. (with the exception of the Geode, but they didn't design that initially)I you want performance per watt then surely ARM is the only way to go!There's a trade-off between bang per buck/bang per watt and usability.Right now there isn't a server solution based on ARM or I'd be using it today....
However, it's coming: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/16/1527209 2GHz ARM ...But what I want is a good solid processor with good software support and no overloaded/bloated graphics hardware!
But the ARM will have that - just about everything GPL... I want CPU to do simulations and experiment with 3d animations...
The day will come when people use computers for computing and not as a typewriter substitute and all those copies of office will lie rusting in your garden shed..Your average LAMP server doesn't use much CPU at all - it's mostly IO - stupid CPU usage like decoding SQL instructions is about the most it's going to do - until the muppets decide that resizing icons on the fly is a good idea though )-: Had a server crippled by that recently until they installed some caching. Weenies who never did any computer science - "Oh, it's slow, lets throw more hardware at it". <mutter> And get off my lawn while yer at it!
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