[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

[Mike Meredith]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:14:57 -0400, Dave Fischer wrote:
> jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de writes:
> >Throwing in more and more "slow" CPUs isn't a solution. See SGIs
> >Origins. They are going to substitute them with the Itanic based
> >Altix.
> 
> Depends how much of the chip is being used on trying to keep the
> (This would be for server/scientific stuff obviously - "typical
> desktop" machines would not do well with such a design.)

Being dumb here, why wouldn't it work well on a desktop ? My Blade2000
has around 10 active processes all sucking up CPU time at the moment,
and it's almost idle except for creating YAZ ("yet another zone").

> That's how it looks to me, but then - I also think VLIW is a good
> idea, so obviously I'm a kook. :-)

Aren't we all ? :)