AMD Bulldozer vs. Intel i7-2600 -- I don't get it!

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 13 19:17:30 UTC 2011


William Park wrote:
>
>    
>>>   and the worst part- we can't blame Bill for this mess
>>>        
>> Sure we can.  OS/2 and it's apps were multithreaded 20 years ago and could
>> have made use of multiple cores had they been available back then.  You can
>> thank BG for killing OS/2 and a lot of excellent technology with it.
>>      
> No, that was IBM's fault.  I remember OS/2, because I couldn't afford it.
>    

So then, it was IBM who punished computer manufactures who dared to sell 
computers with anything other than Windows?  Or who took IBMs OS/2 
development money and used it for Windows?

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