i heard about multitasking since 3.11, i was little but i remember my uncle talking about how lame was the hardware at the time and how was holding back the progress of the sotware...
Well... i tought that with Intel's HyperThreading and Amd's Hypertransport (tomaito tomato...) thats was it, we finally achived the multitasking... but just when i was getting use to have a fast bus the multicores came out. X2, Pentium D (wich by the way was a total failure), came with trumphets, they were the pimp of processors, at that time we were saying "hasta la vista" to Via C's Processors. Well, we had 2 cores, i thought well... this really had to be the final, we have multitasking now... i was sOoOoOoOoOoo wrong, cuz 4 cores came... and i have to say... i was dessapointed, cuz we didnt have sotware that uses well the 2 cores and now we have 4? i thought was a waste... but well... we had it. Then came the improvement of those cores, Core 2, Phenom, now I7 and Phenom II... is nice to have so many processor to chose... but is it worth the effort?
The are few uses 4 cores propertly and now, maybe, in the 3Q of this year 8 cores arrive?... so, now instead of have 2 cores 98% of the time off we'll have 6 cores 98% of the time off...
Now, we got to the time when sotfware if holding back hardware, and not only talking about porcessors also its holding back graphic cards. Bad Drivers, incompatibility issues, even the drivers of the multicore grapich cards are unable to use the hardware properly.
Its like in school there's this guy that is atletic and runs the 100mts in 10 seconds and there is the fat kid always at the end, but the fat kid goes to fat camp and trains all the summer and get fit and say "now this year im gonna win" only to realize that now the atletic kid now has bionic legs and has nitro in his ass... thats what hardware is making to software, sotware needed some time to be multicore (and for multicore i mean 2 core) and says "hey hardware, give me your 2 cores processors im ready" and hardware says "ohh thats good... but we have 4 cores now..."
The reason Athlon Xp was a huge success was Amd join with Microsoft for making the processor, sotware and hardware working together... now that seems to be lost.
SLI? Crossfire? and now QUAD-Crossfire, Triple SLI... why? only to get 9 maybe 10 more fps? cuz drives cant deliver a good funtionality of the harware? Did u hear me alienware? its not worthing.
What hadware companies have to do is working together with the software industry to make hardware that is actually fully funtional.
ps. again, sorry for my bad english
Well... i tought that with Intel's HyperThreading and Amd's Hypertransport (tomaito tomato...) thats was it, we finally achived the multitasking... but just when i was getting use to have a fast bus the multicores came out. X2, Pentium D (wich by the way was a total failure), came with trumphets, they were the pimp of processors, at that time we were saying "hasta la vista" to Via C's Processors. Well, we had 2 cores, i thought well... this really had to be the final, we have multitasking now... i was sOoOoOoOoOoo wrong, cuz 4 cores came... and i have to say... i was dessapointed, cuz we didnt have sotware that uses well the 2 cores and now we have 4? i thought was a waste... but well... we had it. Then came the improvement of those cores, Core 2, Phenom, now I7 and Phenom II... is nice to have so many processor to chose... but is it worth the effort?
The are few uses 4 cores propertly and now, maybe, in the 3Q of this year 8 cores arrive?... so, now instead of have 2 cores 98% of the time off we'll have 6 cores 98% of the time off...
Now, we got to the time when sotfware if holding back hardware, and not only talking about porcessors also its holding back graphic cards. Bad Drivers, incompatibility issues, even the drivers of the multicore grapich cards are unable to use the hardware properly.
Its like in school there's this guy that is atletic and runs the 100mts in 10 seconds and there is the fat kid always at the end, but the fat kid goes to fat camp and trains all the summer and get fit and say "now this year im gonna win" only to realize that now the atletic kid now has bionic legs and has nitro in his ass... thats what hardware is making to software, sotware needed some time to be multicore (and for multicore i mean 2 core) and says "hey hardware, give me your 2 cores processors im ready" and hardware says "ohh thats good... but we have 4 cores now..."
The reason Athlon Xp was a huge success was Amd join with Microsoft for making the processor, sotware and hardware working together... now that seems to be lost.
SLI? Crossfire? and now QUAD-Crossfire, Triple SLI... why? only to get 9 maybe 10 more fps? cuz drives cant deliver a good funtionality of the harware? Did u hear me alienware? its not worthing.
What hadware companies have to do is working together with the software industry to make hardware that is actually fully funtional.
ps. again, sorry for my bad english
So I guess it's kinda like that.