Friday, April 26, 2002

AMD settled on a new name for the chip they'd been calling SledgeHammer: Opteron. Pentium, Xeon, Celeron, and Athlon don't sound so weird now. Maybe in a few years Opteron won't either (though when I'll stop being reminded of Optimus Prime is an open question). 1:26:03 PM comment []    which "monty python and the holy grail" character are you? 11:29:17 AM comment []    Was reading some of Java Threads 2ed yesterday. In the introduction the authors describe one of the motivations for providing threading as a basic part of the language as the need to take advantage of the increasingly wide availability of multiprocessor machines. Two or three years ago, this seemed like an important, credible idea. Be Inc. made a similar push with their wonderful BeOS (whose passing I still lament) - every app built using the BeOS API was multithreaded by default and the OS itself was "pervasively multithreaded," making it ideally suited for that dual Pentium box I was always dreamed about in my early geekhood. Then the Athlon was released. AMD and Intel quickly became entwined in their clock speed wars. The looming need for multiprocessor boxes disappeared. How many people even realize that there are dual-processor Athlon motherboards available now? 9:44:03 AM comment []

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