The CELL is a RISC CPU, why would you want to emulate x86? What I was saying tho was that its based off the power 5 instruction set if I'm not mistaken and shouldn't take much to port to (it'll prolly get done faster than I can get my hands on one).
-- Thanks, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 5/2/05, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/2/05, Devan Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope I can get one of these as the CPU for my machine! Been a while > > since I read that explination but I think that its a series of power > > CPUs arranged similar to a beowulf cluster all on one chip which means > > it shouldn't be too far off from existing CPUs that linux will run on > > in the final presentation to the system. > > Interesting that they have a screenshot of the demo being replayed in > > windows media player and not the original demo... still I LOVE SMP and > > this should have the potential to kill current SMP, AMD and INTEL > > Multicore all in one hit. > > Well, yes, but think of the cost. > > Chances are running Dual Dual-core Opteron will be much better "Bang > for your buck" than getting a Cell system and having to write an x86 > emulator, or porting the entire OS to Cell's instruction set > -- > Robert "Anaerin" Johnston > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
