Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 21:58 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Could it be that if Intel puts out a chip or array of chips or whatever its
> called of this type that the existing OS companies like MIcrosoft and Apple
> would take so long to figure out and implement an OS that run on it that
> Linux might be the only usable option for such a long time that it might
> even end up with an effective monopoly here?
Even if that comes to pass, would it matter? Some years back I was in a
CompUSA in NYC talking to a sales droid about Linux, and he was
excitedly predicting that, with 64-bit processors due within a few
months, and Linux being the only OS that was ready, this would be a huge
boon for Linux adoption by the masses, who would leave Windows behind in
droves because it couldn't take advantage of the extra processing power.
Yeah right.
--
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream." --S. Jackson
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