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Jan Panteltje

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More options Aug 19 2008, 4:59 pm

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From: Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...@yahoo.com>

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:59:14 GMT

Local: Tues, Aug 19 2008 4:59 pm

Subject: Re: A chip too far? Where is your solution Mr Larkin?

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On a sunny day (Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:27:52 -0700 (PDT)) it happened
a7yvm109gf...@netzero.com wrote in
<a69efd5e-4046-42cd-a909-eb4edf5db...@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>:

>On Aug 19, 11:07 am, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> A chip too far? Where is your solution Mr Larkin?
>> http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/technology/microchips_copeland.fortun...

>> Blowing in the wind, all blowing in the wind.

>FTA
>"Then the software brains figured out how to turn all that processing
>power into faster operations and cool new functions."

>Uh, what? Usually the software monkeys squander every last bit of
>hardware performance in the name of their laziness.

Not fair, some parts of for example mpeg decode were written and rewritten
in asm for speed for x86.
There are software developpers who know what counts.

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