May 25
Like all computer fans, we love processors – but we want to find out which ones were the best. We’ve got the tech specs, but what really matters is how much impact they had. That’s where you come in. Are you a Z80 fan or do you have a Motorola 68000 tattoo? Let us know which chip is your favourite and, more importantly, why it should be remember as the most influential chip ever hewn from silicon.
Here’s the starting line-up:
1. 4004 – The first, but does it live on in your heart?
2. 8088 – Of original IBM PC fame
3. 80386 – First 32-bit and (in its DX form) first with floating point
4. Intel Core Duo
5. Z80 – It still is in used in embedded applications!
6. 6502 – The main competitor to Z80
7. 68000 – One for Atari ST and Amiga fans!
8. Power (and Power PC) – apart from its once use in Apples it is now the most used processor in supercomputers
9. Arm – originally used in the BBC Archimedes, but now the force behind the majority of mobile phones
10. PIC – available from about 50p each and possibly the most used in the world today
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May 15
The market keeps on moving: SAP acquires Sybase etc. But one name attracted my attention: GemStone being acquired by VMWare/SpringSource (next to RabbitMQ, Hyperic, …).
Time flies: I remember Gemstone as a vendor of OODBMS and application server. On the OODBMS side there were also Versant, ObjectStore (eXelon –> Progress). The list of applicaton servers – just before EJB’s took off – is much longer: Netscape Applicaton Server, Forté, Jaguar CTS (Sybase), Tengah (became WebLogic), IBM Component Broker, ATG Dynamo, Novell Silverstream, Novera, … Had forgotten about most of them. Another such “hidden” company that I recently encountered is Pramati.
May 14
Like all computer fans, we love processors – but we want to find out which ones were the best. We’ve got the tech specs, but what really matters is how much impact they had. That’s where you come in. Are you a Z80 fan or do you have a Motorola 68000 tattoo? Let us know which chip is your favourite and, more importantly, why it should be remember as the most influential chip ever hewn from silicon.
Here’s the starting line-up:
1. 4004 – The first, but does it live on in your heart?
2. 8088 – Of original IBM PC fame
3. 80386 – First 32-bit and (in its DX form) first with floating point
4. Intel Core Duo
5. Z80 – It still is in used in embedded applications!
6. 6502 – The main competitor to Z80
7. 68000 – One for Atari ST and Amiga fans!
8. Power (and Power PC) – apart from its once use in Apples it is now the most used processor in supercomputers
9. Arm – originally used in the BBC Archimedes, but now the force behind the majority of mobile phones
10. PIC – available from about 50p each and possibly the most used in the world today
Post a comment here, or get in touch at mailserver@pcplus.co.uk