On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 10:15, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > What is hyper-threading and FSB from the > > `P4 2.4 ghtz hyper-threading 800 mhz FSB'? > > Hyper Threading is an Intel technology that enables one processor to > perform two operations at once in a similar manner to SMP (but still > sharing some resources, which is not the case for SMP). > > http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/ >
There is about one line on that site that actuallu hints at what the processor is doing and it sounds a bit like what mips is doing for quite some time now, only since x86 commands are more complicated its probably harder to implement. > FSB is short for Front Side Bus, and is the bus that connects the > processor to the Memory Control Handler (MCH or North Bridge). > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish (showing off his Micro-computers-earned knowledge) > > > > -- > > > > Shaul Karl, shaul @ actcom . net . il > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ > > There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 > chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
