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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« on: December 16, 2009, 12:45:05 PM »
Love: 68000 - the first CPU I learned to program... I still have the 68k architecture in the back of my mind when ever I program anything...

Love: The first Athlon64 - the x86 done right, probably done more for the modern computer industry than any other.

Hate: PPC 603 - cost me a lot of money and offered very little.

Hate: Pentium4 - total dead end...
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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2009, 08:17:22 PM »
Single core CPUs were never a good idea, especially when we started to demand multitasking... But technology just didn't allow us more than one chip as complex as a CPU in a home computer... but now it does, and I would say two cores is the minimum any computer system should have... my iPhone is the only computing device I use at home with a single core... and hopefully Apple can sort that out soon ;)
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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2009, 08:39:54 PM »
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Well they got you to shell out for a locked piece of hardware that doesn't belong to you and needs their permission to do anything with, so I'm sure they can do just about anything!

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Maybe,

I'd like to help clear up that little myth about the locked nature of the iPhone, if you use the iPhone SDK you can install any app that you compile yourself (and you can give that app you compiled to up to 100 friends) on your iPhone.

It is only if you want to sell/distribute an app to unknown people that Apple then require approval... which is fine with me, I'm having fun with my mobile device... :)
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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2009, 09:05:07 AM »
The fact that the Amiga had coprocessors tells you all you need to know about single core CPUs :)
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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2009, 11:51:33 AM »
Just the furthur karlos's post, I have a 2.2Ghz Core2Duo here that on average uses less power than my old 1.5Ghz PPC 7447 ( aka G4)... But is many many times more powerful...
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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2009, 12:21:45 PM »
Well, the only situation now where multicore is a burden is when using an operating system that can't use more than one core... So I guess that is rather ironicaly probably only AmigaOS now... :)
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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2009, 07:07:28 PM »
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The next generation of C++ aims to include language-level support for writing multithreaded code, which will certainly help.


Apple have added blocks to C...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/10

this goes hand in hand with their grand central dispatch subsystem... :)
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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2009, 12:29:41 AM »
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You do not own the iPhone.


Sorry, but what does a year old editorial piece have to do with ownership of the iPhone...

I bought a device with an operating system, that I can use on a daily basis... I can buy apps for and I can write my own apps for... It's pretty powerful for the price and quite innovative... but if I modify it beyond the manufactures specification (like swap out the installed firmware) they have stated that they wouldn't provide me with any support...

I am of course referring to my A1200... but the above equally applies to my iPhone...
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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2009, 10:23:33 AM »
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Hate: None, I don't hate cpus :D


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Re: Which CPUs do you love or hate
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2009, 10:41:06 AM »
@Karlos

Hmmm, If this were a discussion about CPU archs then I'd have quite a bit to say... but I'm pretty sure we were supposed to pick actual, physical implementations and justify our reasons... :)
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