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choasforages:
as for friuty, everyones favorite fruit company/*apple*/ uses ppc processers in there boxs. mips is the graphical way, cuase sgi uses mips alot. digital got bought out buy compaq, thats why alpha is the compaqed way. NeXT used m68k's in there boxs. sparcs are used in sun workstations, and are veryreliable. as for hardware, a lot of x86 hardware can be used with alpha machines, and with ppc ones if i am correct, owell, now everyone knows what my sig means   :D

Zombie9920:

quote:Originally posted by DC:
586 = pentium (1). Dunno when it became 686, search google           .

No, there aint a 786 yet. And there probably won't either, since proc manufacturers are switching over to 64 bit PC's in a couple of years I think.

[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: DC ]
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The AMD Athlon (K7) and Pentium 4 are both 786.

The Pentium Pro/PII/PIII/Celeron(with the exception of the P4 core Celeron)/AMD K6/Cyrix 6x86/Cyrix MII/IDT Winchip C6 were all 686. The upcoming AMD K8 will be an 886.

x86 isn't really a piece of shit because it can do something that most other architechtures can't do. It can scale to really high mhz levels(which in the end will make it faster than the competition). CPU's of other architechtures can usually do more per cycle (at an equivalent clock speed) than x86, but they just don't scale as high in clock speed.

It is hard to fairly compare different architectures because software is written differently for different architechtures. Normaly a comp with a Sparc, Alpha, IA64, etc. are used as servers only. They are not practical computing architechures because of cost.

[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

lazygamer:
X86 is also nice because it's so low cost. Let's say X86 was killed years ago, would a really good non-X86 cost about the same as it's X86 equivalent? So top of the line P4 is probably $500 Canadian, would a top of the line non-X86 chip(in a non-X86 world) cost $500 Canadian?

Zombie9920:

quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
X86 is also nice because it's so low cost. Let's say X86 was killed years ago, would a really good non-X86 cost about the same as it's X86 equivalent? So top of the line P4 is probably $500 Canadian, would a top of the line non-X86 chip(in a non-X86 world) cost $500 Canadian?
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Heck no. CPUs of different architectures(Like IA64, Sparc, Alpha) can costs thousands of dollars for the CPU alone. I think it is like $3500+ USD for a 733mhz Itanium CPU right now, I don't know about the cost of the other CPUs because I haven't researched them or anything. I know they are pricey also.

[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

voidmain:
But sold in much higher quantities RISC chips can cost much less than x86.  RISC chips are far less complex and have a fraction of the circuits (hence run cooler and draw less power also). You'll also find lower end RISC chips in laser printers and the like...

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