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Reading this makes me nostalgic for 'multiple CPU' PCs. Haven't seen a lot of them for a long time, but was it 'hyper-threading' or 'multi-core' that killed the
by Theodores 8y ago
Reading this makes me nostalgic for 'multiple CPU' PCs. Haven't seen a lot of them for a long time, but was it 'hyper-threading' or 'multi-core' that killed the 'multiple CPU' workstation? Having more than one CPU had cool value and exclusivity - everyone has multicore, whether faked by hyperthreading or not.
I was also surprised by the amount of people choosing automatic login. I thought there was a downside to that regarding the 'keychain' thing or has that been solved over the last decade or so?
Also
- 21 8y agoWithout full disk encryption with key/password a login is not that much more secure than automatic login.
- pixl97 8y agoMostly it was multiple cores that killed the multi-socket workstation. Why spend 600+ on a board that supports 2 processors when you can buy a uni-processor board that supports a cpu that can support 2 - 4 or 8 real cores, not including HT.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoDual and quad CPUs used to be defining features of PowerMac towers back in the PPC days. The competition might’ve had Pentium 4’s with much higher clockspeeds, but the PowerMac towers had multiple PPC G4s or G5s where most of the competition only had a single P3 or P4. The Intel Mac Pro’s that followed had options for multiple Xeons, but the multi core nature of everything from the C2D forward put a major damper on the demand for multi CPU configs.
- popey 8y agoI'd imagine a significant chunk of "auto login" choosers are running Ubuntu in a VM on some other platform.