[nycbug-talk] Intel Fab

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 7, 2004, at 3:45 PM, michael wrote:

>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1586655,00.asp
>
> Intel Labs' Natural Born Killer Technologies
> By Rob Enderle
> May 6, 2004
>
> Virtual Machine PowerPC Killer.
>
> This one was easy. Intel showed a FreeBSD-based OS that was running on
> one processor, and then with some changes to the kernel, moved it to an
> x86-based architecture with no application or performance impact.
> This is architected at the hardware level, and the technology is
> actually in use by some small hosting companies.
>
> What was new was near-seamless driver support for the technology.
> Evidently, they have been working on this for some time. Up until now,
> they could move applications, but the drivers were a problem.
>
> Aside from the implications for Apple (with the means to move Mac OS X
> to an Intel-based platform), this technology would allow one machine to
> run Unix, Linux and Windows more easily, and without the typical
> overhead penalty from using a product like VMware.

That article makes NO SENSE whatsoever!  The Intel PR flunkie who wrote 
it for him must've been high.

-bob