Recent content by Nemesis77

It might not be sensible for regural PC:s (where cost would be an issue), but for more expensive setups. Also, if the RAM was used solely for video, IO and the like, and not by the CPU's at all, then the problems of synchronization. The idea would be that IO-activities and the like, while the...

The title might be a bit misleading, so allow me to clarify a bit :). If we look at the traditional Intel-architecture and compare it to NUMA-system (like AMD64), the difference are obvious. On Intel, the RAM is attached to the Nortbridge, and each CPU is connected to that nortbridge, and they...

Oscars the ROTK received were in a way meant for the whole trilogy. And the trilogy deserved every single one of them. Mystic River over the LOTR-trilogy? Yeah right....

I did say that in my post. S3 and XGI would not have largest user-base. Not by far. That would be Ati and NV (and Intel, if you include integrated stuff) And even todays games work just fine with DX8-hardware. If (and this is a large "if") both Ati and NVIDIA publicly said that "no, we...

the point was (I think) that Microsoft does need Ati's and NVIDIA's support for their new 3D-tech. That is a fact. If they do not support it, developers will not use it. I mean, what alternatives do MS, developers and consumers have? S3? XGI? Yeah, right! While MS has enormous power over Ati...

uh, double-post. sorry

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Damn you :D!

Hey Nappe! when would you like to hand me "the goods"? I can drop by at Asm during the weekend

BB is going to be at the Assembly? I'm not going to make it this year, so I assume that you will keep me and rest of the gang up to date ;)

Well, yes, low-end servers are usually x86-machines. But I read your post as "Opteron is in the low-end of x86-server market", not that it's part of a market (x86-servers) that as a whole are low-end when compared to likes of POWER4, Sparc, Itanium etc. I'm not sure that am I making any sence...

If you consider Opteron to be a "low end" x86 server-chip, then what is a hi-end x86 server-chip? Xeon? And since they are building supercomputers that use the Opteron, can it be considered a "low-end server-chip"?

You mean using Linux as a replacement for Windows? Yep, it's more stable, altrough I was mainly referring to servers (where uptime really matters). As to the desktop... Sure I have seen buggy Linux-apps that crash. there are buggy apps in every platform. But the OS is more stable. I haven't had...

Warning: Off-topic ranting ahead! I call shenaningans on that one. Sure, NT kernel might be microkernel versus Linux'es monolithic kernel. But that does _not_ automatically make it better. In theory microkernel is better, but in reality it always isn't so. A good monolithic kernel will wipe...