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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 10:49:46
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 11:15:29
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| if I wanted to know about this I would go to Slashdot. Stop defacing your RSS feed with non-Amiga news, please! it's very annoying  . |
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 11:21:40
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| If Amiga hardware is about to use PowerPC processors, this is Amiga related news.
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 11:22:18
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| yes yes i am the first to ask "where is the AmigaOne news" in this posting.... |
Yeah, "news" such as this (posted by you) are much more relevant to the Amiga community, NOT.Last edited by hatschi on 18-Oct-2006 at 11:22 AM.
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 11:28:16
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| If Amiga hardware is about to use PowerPC processors, this is Amiga related news. |
It sure is!
Had already read it through an OSNews-link, though.
OldFartLast edited by OldFart on 18-Oct-2006 at 11:29 AM.
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 11:31:31
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| The Power series of processors are often classified as the server chips, so it’s where unlikely that we going to see an Power series CPU in side a Amiga computer, but Power series often becomes the bases for the desktop chips, the desktop chips are cut down version of the Power series.
Remove a core and remove some cache = G4,G5,G6 chips.
The primary target for AmigaOS4.x is PowerPC chips.
The cell family will also be interesting for AmigaOS at least until Amiga Inc can show some thing better? (AmigaOS5) then what we have now (AmigaOS4).
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 11:34:11
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I just don't see that link I'm affraid. If it was a PPC processor supported by OS4, maybe, if it was a processor that is used in an Amiga computer ok.
I think we need a general news section here on AW and an Amiga specific section. I may ditch the AW RSS feed from my browser as I want to be notified about Amiga news by the AmigaWorld feed, not PPC news. |
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 11:44:56
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As the powerpc is at present the only processor option for Amiga OS4, and as Apple has dropped the powerpc, it is important to know whether the powerpc has a future, and a development plan. This news article provides important confirmation that powerpc provides a viable architecture for future versions of AmigaOS. Would any of us be interested in AmigaOS if we thought that the G4 was the end of the line for it? |
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 11:59:24
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 12:46:31
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| This is better news for me than the 1000x polls and talks about the neverending
when will os4 be released, when will hardware be released. Which hardware will be released sooner etc. Once ok, 5 times ok, 10 ok..... but then it gets just
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 15:31:23
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 15:34:34
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| If it was a PPC processor supported by OS4, maybe, if it was a processor that is used in an Amiga computer ok. |
News about CPU’s comes often long before you can buy it for any computer.
If you where post news on about CPU’s that where already used then that won’t be any news at all, so to speak.
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 19:36:11
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| Yeah, "news" such as this (posted by you) are much more relevant to the Amiga community, NOT. |
good point hatschi 
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 21:46:02
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| This is promessing news for the ppc architecture.
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 18-Oct-2006 22:09:19
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| Now that we are past the "no amiga content"-phase (hopefully)... back to the ppc...
What is this going to do compared to a G5 in speed ? I tought cell was the next step after PPC... didn't really get in to topics about it. (and no I am not going to visit slashdotcom)
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 19-Oct-2006 4:08:45
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| I recognise that this is the future of PowerPC, but how long before a low cost version of this chip appears for the desktop/embedded?
Sometimes it seems like IBM dont want to do anything except make the current chips use less power! And maybe a marginal speed increase from time to time |
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 20-Oct-2006 5:03:52
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We can only guess here since here since we don't even know if this will lead to a G6 anytime soon(especially since we don't even know when the Power 6 will be here) but if it's any help Wikipedia says this about the Power 5 Quote:
| IBM rolled out the POWER5 processor in 2004. The 1.9 GHz version posted the highest uniprocessor SPECfp score of any shipping chip. |
so if the Power 6 is running at 5 GHz you can draw your own conclusions.
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| In 2003, IBM introduced a "very heavy modified" single CPU core version of the POWER4 called the PowerPC 970 |
which in other words sounds like the G5 isn't even based on the Power 5, meaning .................. ?
I wouldn't hold my breath for a G6.
Otoh, if they do make an Intel crusher, and Apple is still making it's OS PPC compatible we might see some new Mac's with such a processor.
And that couldn't be all bad? Could it? 
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 20-Oct-2006 8:14:14
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Cell is designed for specific workloads. Existing mainline and custom MIS server applications would require program structure changes for maximising performance on Cell.
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Re: IBM gives details on the Power 6
Posted on 20-Oct-2006 9:00:25
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Otoh, if they do make an Intel crusher, and Apple is still making it's OS PPC compatible we might see some new Mac's with such a processor.
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