Re: BTX Halted on X86_64 master

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
> Bill Hacker wrote:

> > ACK 'marketing Nomenclature' - (the 'Core-D' / Pentium D eg - pre 'Core
> > 2' having been presented as meaning 'Core Duo')
>
> I've never seen the Pentium D marketed as "Core-D" around here though,
> that'd have been awful :).

T'was ever thus in Asia anyway..

Core-D (faster clock, 'fatter' lithography, hungry, slower FSB/RAM

is NE to

Core-2 (the reverse on all of the above)

> > I'll worry about all that when VIA Nano dualcore become common or ARM
> > gets faster.
>
> Haven't seen those Nano chips in the wild yet, unfortunately.

Dual-core, no. AFAIK, still a demo, if not 'lab' item.

Plenty of the solo's around in Netbooks and STB's though.

Wot the Hey - even the lowly C7 is a surprisingly good performer as a desktop.

All down to the hardware encryption engine and OpenSSL/SSH support for it. So 
very much of what one does on a desktop uses encryption (ssh, scp, sftp, https, 
esmtps(a), imaps, WiFi, rsync, VNC, remote X, remote desktop, distributed fs'en 
 .... etc) that the hardware crypto engine very handily offsets the 
generally-slower-than-CHEAP Intel CPU.

OTOH - as a compiler box? ... NFW!

> > Meanwhile, after half a century of listening to fan noise, I'm chasing
> > lower power instead of raw speed and have come to rather enjoy what
> > Simon & Garfunkel called 'the sounds of silence'.
>
> What about a blindingly fast system, but running in another
> (sound-proofed) room? :P

BT,DT,GTTS. 'Challenging' with the pair of laptops I now Globetrot with, and - 
limited by the uplinks - the speed is no longer of much consequence, as anything 
at 1 GHz (G4) to 1.5 GHz (x86) is seldom loaded up.

> Btw, your e-mail address bounces.

Looking into that. Taking the headers from your post here, and ass-u-me-ing you 
came off the same 'net from which you post to crater, I don't find any of the 
three 'possible suspects' in my Exim logs as even attempting to attach recently.

From which IP did you originate the last leg toward conducive.net?

BTW - Sorry for the delay in responding - was enroute HKG USA on the 15th, then 
distracted on arrival by need to deal with a water main leak and a snowstorm.