More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer

Diabolus writes "Anandtech have more information on AMD's upcoming Hammer processors. " Talking with several engineers who are in the know about it, the Hammer looks pretty frickin' amazing. Itanium will have a run for its money, I suspect.

I am a bit fearful

[The Slashdolt]

It will probably work well until your fan happens to go out, then it catches your house on fire. Are they selling fire extinguishers with these things? Or case smoke detectors?

What I wanna know

[UserChrisCanter4]

Has AMD unfairly optimized the processor for Quake 3?

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AMD's Future

[Renraku]

Why is AMD making these things so sensitive to heat? I'll bet they're also sensitive to vibration, electricity, and about anything that its competitors handle every day. Most hammers can resist hundreds of degrees before they melt/disentigrate.

Re:Hammer will rock!

[Anonymous Coward]

> and supports 511 GB of memory per process

One slimline kernel. 800k.

One vi session. 200k.

One gcc compile. 9000k.

One demand-loaded shared glibc. 3000k.

511.99 GB free virtual memory for a Windows XP install under VMware. Priceless.

FUDpacker...

[SaDan]

Buy a heatsink, you cheap bastard, and install it.

Re:Itanium, etc.

[csbruce]

maybe AOL should be looking into buying up XBoxes, loading them up with Linux and Mozilla, and selling them as set-top surfer boxes.

Actually, they could just distribute millions of CDs that do that.

Re:Wise Intel

[castlan]

The Commodore 128 was backwards compatible with the C-64. And at the source level , the Commodore 64 was largely backwards compatible with the Commodore PET and Vic 20, if not as fully as the C-128's "GO 64" command. (source code... :P just be careful what you POKE and where you PEEK.)

But this point mmontour was trying to make could have been better made with the transition from Apple's ][ series to the Macintosh architecture. Other than a few hardware interfaces, there was almost no backwards compatibility, and Apple planned it that way.

The Amiga was not developed by Commodore as a break from their venerable C-64, rather, the Amiga was a distinct machine from a failing company which Commodore bought, and then championed as superior to their previous offerings. Unfortunately, they just succeeded in carrying on the Amiga curse.

I never had an Amiga... I couldn't betray my Commodore 64 by dating its sexy cousin like that. Instead, I later ended up skulking around with some skanky PC I picked up at CompUSA's red light dictrict. I'm sure fond of that slinky Mac, and PCs can keep my attention by parading around in NetBSD, or some indecent Linux rags. But even in the face of a new 64 bit whore of a PC, my true love will always by my Commodore.

I dream in 8 bits.