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Re: [PLUG] Apple announces G5 - IBM 970 based
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I remember trying to rewrite CP301 64 bit programming for an 8 bit
machine.
bs
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, William H. Magill wrote:
> Yesterday's announcement by Apple of G5 PowerPC systems based on the
> IBM 970 PowerPC gives anybody interested in Linux a new 64-bit,
> seriously high-performance, platform to work with. (www.apple.com/g5/)
>
> On another list a couple of us have been discussing the implications...
>
> The 970 runs both 32 and 64 bit code.
>
> IBM has large chip runs to meet its own needs, but the chip runs to
> fill Apple's needs is at least an order of magnitude larger. That means
> cheap chips...! [All being built in a brand new IBM Fab.]
>
> Apple is pricing the Dual 2 ghz CPU with a 1 ghz system bus at $2999!
>
> There is a sub 20w version of the 970 that runs at 1.2 ghz ... can you
> say Laptop?
>
> "IBM's entry into the commodity Power chip space will only bring down
> the prices as well. It seems IBM's strategy is to sell the commodity
> version for Linux solutions (as well as to Apple)."
>
> Couple this with the fact that IBM DOES have decent compiler
> technology, significant experience with emulation from the 68K to
> PowerPC migration, and, unlike Digital, Compaq or HP, DOES understand
> Marketing -- Itanium with Alpha inside is likely to prove too little
> too late. (Tape-out was scheduled for late 2004, early 2005.)
>
> This announcement is the "first shoe" that many of us who watch the
> hardware side of things have been waiting for since Compaq killed
> Alpha. It basically marks the beginning of the end for SPARC and for
> the entry of folks like Dell into the mid-range server market.
>
> And if we suddenly discover that we also are once again seeing REAL IBM
> clones appear again, it could also hammer Hammer.
>
> Hardware has just gotten interesting again.
>
>
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
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> magill@acm.org
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>
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