To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If we can just get Microsoft to code a multithreaded Solitaire game, those cards would shuffle faster than ever!
2 posted on
02/13/2006 8:52:34 AM PST by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: All
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
4 posted on
02/13/2006 8:55:34 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Another technology that will be a Mac first.
5 posted on
02/13/2006 8:56:49 AM PST by
x5452
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Visteva
Pantherine
CoreClear
Symbervine
Silicamon
Incisorline
Hey, this is fun. Making up new and nonsensical names for emerging technology.
How about bad names for emerging political "technologies":
Hillankles
McCaincer
Williedrip
Pelosistretch
Boozeted
7 posted on
02/13/2006 9:03:26 AM PST by
isthisnickcool
(Jack Bauer: "By the time I'm finished with you you're going to wish you felt this good again".)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Will their quad-core that's optimized for playing MP3s be called "Funkytown"?
9 posted on
02/13/2006 9:09:38 AM PST by
George Smiley
(This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Still trying to get by on one of these.

HEY Y'ALL! STOP TYPING SO FAST!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sun is already shipping 8-core systems that do 4 "hardware threads" per core, making them capable of handling up to 32 threads conurrently. Memory bandwidth is about 20Gbytes/second.
18 posted on
02/13/2006 1:21:00 PM PST by
ikka
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