[Rant] Pentium IV Prototype at 3.5 GHz | ANN.lu |
Posted on 29-Aug-2001 09:05 GMT by Christian Kemp | 41 comments View flat View list |
Solar (BAUD) wrote:
PPC vs x86, Intel vs AMD, believe me folks I´d like to see PPC rule the market, but this looks like x86 is here to stay. I think it´s interesting to see what will be tomorrow, even if it has little to do with Amiga today.
Yes, I know that GHz isn´t everything, but that´s a *lot* of GHz to make up for with superior (?) architecture...
From Heise Online:
"In the early morning, shortly after 8 AM local time, [Intel] presented a prototype of a 0.13µm Pentium-4 (Northwood), which - shortly - ran at 3.5 GHz.
On average, the IDF record breaking CPUs reach the market after roughly a year. The 2 GHz type that started production yesterday was also presented as a prototype on last year´s IDF. So we can expect the 3.5 GHz Pentium 4 in late summer 2002. In general, so Otellini, the architecture can be scaled up to 10 GHz."
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Posted by Solar (BAUD) on 29-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT | >> "I´ve seen Amigas with a loaded WBStartup taking minutes to boot, and I´ve
>> seen bare-bones Windows PCs booting in a couple of seconds."
> You're joking aren't u?! A couple of seconds...?!
No. If you count off the HW initialisation, which isn´t a factor of CPU or OS - AmigaOne´s will have to run through that just the same. A bare-bones Win98SE takes less than 20 seconds to boot, at least on my machine - haven´t had the opportunity (or time to kill) to do throughout testing on this.
If CPU would be any factor here, LinuxPPC would have to be faster-booting than Linux-x86. Is that the case?
About the IDE vs. SCSI issue:
ATA-33 -> 33 MB / sec.
ATA-66 -> 66 MB / sec.
ATA-100 -> 100 MB / sec.
U-SCSI -> 20 MB / sec.
UW-SCSI -> 40 MB / sec.
UW2-SCSI -> 80 MB / sec.
SCSI-160 -> 160 MB / sec.
SCSI drives are either none the faster than IDE drives, or if they are, they spin at 10,000+ rpm - ever listened to one of these beasts? Not to speak of heat, price, or the fact that nearly all other peripherals we used to plug into SCSI (scanners, CD-RW, removeable media) are today available as either ATAPI or USB devices. In fact, SCSI CD-RW drives are usually ATAPI internally with a bus adapter added to make it speak SCSI.
That leaves us with overpriced, noisy, hot server drives that offer less capacity than any IDE drive for half the price.
And again, the Amiga virus hits: People continue to believe in things (SCSI, custom chips, etc.) long after these things have been made outdated by reality... |
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