AMD CPU Roadmap?

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I read AMDs press release on what Pacifica does for you and I think it was
about as tangable as "it does stuff really good" I'd love to see some
examples of how it helps a regular PC user get something they don't have
now. I'm not speaking of people using vmware or things like that but just
your average gamer. It may not help them at all but I wasn't clear from
AMDs gobbledy gook press release. Mind you Pacifica may be fantastic, I
just couldn't gather what it really does for me from their press release.
Would it help out gamers or is it more for developers and the like?

Thanks
 
comcast said:
I read AMDs press release on what Pacifica does for you and I think it was
about as tangable as "it does stuff really good" I'd love to see some
examples of how it helps a regular PC user get something they don't have
now. I'm not speaking of people using vmware or things like that but just
your average gamer. It may not help them at all but I wasn't clear from
AMDs gobbledy gook press release. Mind you Pacifica may be fantastic, I
just couldn't gather what it really does for me from their press release.
Would it help out gamers or is it more for developers and the like?

Thanks
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You'll probably have to wait until it is actually released and gets into
the hands of credible test facilities. They'll let us know what it'll
do and any advantages it will provide.
 
comcast said:
I read AMDs press release on what Pacifica does for you and I think it was
about as tangable as "it does stuff really good" I'd love to see some
examples of how it helps a regular PC user get something they don't have
now. I'm not speaking of people using vmware or things like that but just
your average gamer. It may not help them at all but I wasn't clear from
AMDs gobbledy gook press release. Mind you Pacifica may be fantastic, I
just couldn't gather what it really does for me from their press release.
Would it help out gamers or is it more for developers and the like?
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It won't do anything for you, in the short term. In the longer term,
Microsoft will probably migrate to some form of virtual machine
technology to make windows more resiliant and less susceptible to
viruses, buggy drivers and crappy code.

The Pacifica technology adds a set of instructions that basically
facilitate the ability to run multiple operating systems side-by-side
(or on atop the other). In the short term, the primary users will
be things like VMWare and Xen.

scott
 
comcast said:
I read AMDs press release on what Pacifica does for you and I think it was
about as tangable as "it does stuff really good" I'd love to see some
examples of how it helps a regular PC user get something they don't have
now. I'm not speaking of people using vmware or things like that but just
your average gamer. It may not help them at all but I wasn't clear from
AMDs gobbledy gook press release. Mind you Pacifica may be fantastic, I
just couldn't gather what it really does for me from their press release.
Would it help out gamers or is it more for developers and the like?
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Not everything is about gamers. Even if it won't help out a gamer, it's
likely to help those people who do currently use Vmware and Xen.

Yousf Khan
 
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