PowerPC 750fx - very slow problem

[zeitghost]

Re: Power Consumption...

Don't you just love that, specially if you're the one who designed the hardware (speaking from experience here).

My favorite was a 64 pin device that ended up with only 63 pins on the pcb. Ooooops.

[AtW]

Re: Power Consumption...

yadda yadad yadda SupremeSpod - read this about your belowed Motorola PowerPC - "Motorola to spin off chip unit"

news.com.com/2100-1006-5086763.html

do you know what it means? Yes, this is beginning of the end! IBM will still use it for servers but watch Apple switching to AMD or even Intel. Jobs made smart move by using portable BSD Unix.

[zeitghost]

Re: Power Consumption...

So what, Motorola spun off parts of the semiconductor operation some years ago.

[AtW]

Re: Power Consumption...

this time PowerPC goes - Motorola is focusing on other things, and this will put extra pressure on Apple to move to x86 architecture. It is not easy thing to do for Jobs but he is a hard man and can do it.

[SupremeSpod]

IBM...?

IBM will still use it for servers

And Cisco will still use it for their comms boxes, and Mitel for their switches, along with hundreds of other embedded users. What is your point?

[zeitghost]

Re: IBM...?

Quote from some magazine "Embedded: the refuge of the failed desktop processor".

[AtW]

Re: IBM...?

my point is that by disappearing from Personal COmptuers and going fully emebedded Motorola ends the era proving the point that in its time Intel made right decisions cost, CISC, backwards compatibility wise.

[zeitghost]

Re: IBM...?

I'm sure that those of us who programmed the 8080 would agree...

[AtW]

Re: IBM...?

dont knock intel - they opened new era of cheap general purpose microprocessors by releasing 4004, and 8080 was important step towards 8086.

[zeitghost]

Re: IBM...?

ATW, I remember it well... (through the mists of time, there stands before me the Intel Blue Box MDS with elephant's trunk processor interface).

And we thought 64k was a lot after the 16k of the 8008.