Re: TI-H: heh

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Re: TI-H: heh


The PPC 601 back in 1994 had a max of 1024MB of RAM, and that was just
because 16 SIMM slots took up space.

Now the limit is 5GB or so, but no one has that much money...

An intel 10GHz means nothing.  :)  They keep nursing allong their 30+ year
old technology and command set.  Its going to hurt them.  Thats why they
are trying to buy out their competition...

10GHz from intel is laughable.  They can't get their 1GHz chip to run
stable, and IBM is putting the touches on 533 and 750MHz chips.  IBMs 1GHz
chip needs new bus technology that hasn't been developed, so they won't be
releasing it soon...

I know the answers, but you'll find allot in the reasearch process...  Tell
me how much watts of power a 300MHz PII "MMX" uses, then I'll tell you how
many watts a 300MHz PPC uses.  :)

Grant

Even
>By the time you programmed all the software you wanted for your Sparcky,
>then Intel would have come out with .4 micron technology, making 10GHz
>computers with 1GHz bus's and 1.2Gigabytes of RAM would all be common.
>Although I'd accept a Sparc, since I could hook 'er up with a RAID and OC48
>and then have a nifty little server going. :)
>
>>
>> >In a message dated 11/29/98 5:11:55 AM Central Standard Time,
>> >gussie@alaska.net writes:
>> >
>> >> I think you'd be suprized to see a Sun.  You and everyone you know
>prefers
>> >>  CISC because its cheep ($90 for a 300MHz processor, $1,300 for
>computer).
>> >>  But people in the RISC market get what they pay for.  ($700 for
>300MHz
>> >>  processor, $6,000 for computer).
>> >>  And if you realy want a good Sun, you would have to get a Sparq.  I
>think
>> >>  they start at $25,000 or so.  But again, it will eat pents and PPCs
>for
>> >>  lunch.
>> >The directly above statement (it will eat pents...) is true.  However, I
>> >personally would prefer to have 20 decent P II class machines to a
>single
>> >Sparq.  For this reason, I don't think that the statement about getting
>what
>> >you pay for, is true.  Perhaps for the scientist running some pretty
>intense
>> >applications, maybe some stuff dealing with number permutations or
>something,
>> >it is, but for the other 4,999,999,999 people in the world, I don't think
>so.
>>
>> If someone were to offer you a fully decked spark, it would be kinda
>> strange not to accept it.  Esp[ecially at 600-800MHz.
>>
>> Grant
>
>-dan
>
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