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- Bochs 2.4.1 (Mac)
- Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486 or Pentium CPU. Bochs is...
- Tags: Emulation, Apple Macintosh, Intel X86, Timothy R. Butler, Bochs, Workstations, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-06-07
- UtilsLib 6.0 (Mac)
- UtilsLib is a REALbasic plugin, which has cross platform GUID Generation, ComputerName and UserName, day and month names, bit wise handling, currency formatting, access to the location manager and many other utility functions. Most functions of this plugin are supported on MacOS Classic, MacOS X PPC, MacOS X x86, Windows...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Intel X86, Plug-in, Einhugur Software, UtilsLib, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-05-24
- Oracle under fire with x86 hypervisor licensing
- Oracle under fire with x86 hypervisor licensingJust an observationMost multi-socket, multi-core servers that I work with use just one VM for Oracle. Either you have a huge database - and no amount of "power" is too much - or you have a large Oracle server handling many instances of smaller...
- Tags: Virtualization, Oracle Corp., hypervisor, Intel x86
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- Oracle under fire with x86 hypervisor licensing
- Burton Group's Chris Wolf has fired a salvo in Oracle's direction concerning its x86 hypervisor licensing policy. This is a long extract from a much more in depth piece but it is necessary to see what Chris is saying in order to understand the context (my emphasis added and apologies...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Oracle Corp., Intel X86, Customer, CPU, VM, Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Trend Watch: Mission-Critical x86 - Presented by Gabriel Consulting Group
- Increasingly, IT organizations are moving mission critical workloads onto virtualized x86 platforms. The emergence of highly sophisticated x86 virtualization mechanisms and advances in x86 system and storage technology are leading companies to consolidate important workloads onto resilient x86 platforms. The attendee will learn how X86 systems playing a more strategic...
- Tags: Intel X86, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Webcasts 2009-05-14
- Intel engages in chest-beating, threatens to yank AMD's x86 license in 60 days
- Intel engages in chest-beating, threatens to yank AMD's x86 license in 60 daysIntel Can GOsuck a rotting egg. In my opinion Intels products suffer from planned obsolescence. I find it humorous when Intel users head up with AMD, and rattle off spec after spec about how much faster Intel Chips...
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Intel x86
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- Intel engages in chest-beating, threatens to yank AMD's x86 license in 60 days
- Intel has formally accused AMD of breaching the terms of a 2001 cross-licensing agreement by spinning off the fabrications plants and forming GlobalFoundries. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Intel X86, Agreement, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!At a minimum, Arm will cause big problems for BOTH Intel and Microsoft.No, x86 and Windows will not die any time soon, but, low power, lower cost Arm will be hot in the netbook segment starting this year, and that cuts...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Processors, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Intel x86, XO-2, RISC
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- Yesterday, OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell...
- Tags: RISC, Mobile, Intel X86, Mobile Computing, CPU, One Laptop Per Child Project, Chip, XO-2, Diamondville, Chipsets, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Semiconductors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that MainframeWrong way.....Rather than virtualizing the x86 on the zos, wouldnt it be better to virtualize the zos on the x86?One of the milstones around the neck of the computing industry as a whole is the licence price IBM recieves from its mainframe...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, mouse, mainframe, Intel x86, Gonna Need
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe
- At the SHARE conference in Austin, Texas, the Birmingham, Alabama-based Mantissa Corporation unveiled z/VOS, a hypervisor that enables Windows desktops and servers to be virtualized on IBM mainframes. I don't generally like to blog about IBM technology on Tech Broiler because as an...
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Mouse, Performance, Intel X86, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Some general considerations for small systems change
- Some general considerations for small systems changeIOW you need an architectNOT a CIO or management drone. NOT a vendor rep. NOT your average sysadmin. NOT the customer/user. Not from one group while ignoring another.Of course, this never happens. There usually IS an architect, but he is brought in AFTER the...
- Tags: Processors, Servers, Sun Sparc, SAP AG, V210, V20z, Intel x86
- Discussion threads 2009-03-03
- Some general considerations for small systems change
- Let's assume a scenario under which the older system you're thinking about upgrading is relatively small, support costs are high, and you can't obviously transfer its workload to some other, larger, machine with adequate idle capacity. Specifically, lets assume you have a Sun 490 from a few...
- Tags: Risk, Staffing, Vulnerability, Intel X86, Tolerance, Sun Sparc, Unix Skill, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Processors, Operating Systems, Security, Open Source, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- AMD wins approval for manufacturing spin-off
- AMD wins approval for manufacturing spin-offx86 licenseAren't you going to address the issue concerning Intel nullifying its x86 technology license to AMD, or has that been resolved?Lawyers started to work on that issue 2 years agoI think Intel has raised it a couple of times, but mainly as a FUD...
- Tags: Processors, manufacturing, Intel x86, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., x86 license
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Ten embarrassing questions
- I was reading a survey showing that only 2% of Obama voters (vs 35% of McCain voters) could correctly answer at least 11 of 12 simple questions like which party has been in charge of Congress for the last two years, when it occurred to me that there might be...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Ziegler, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Processors, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-12-06
- Norton AntiVirus Definitions Update (x86 Package) 11/05/2008 (Windows)
- Download this file for the latest in virus detection and repair. This definitions update is a complete replacement for any previous virus definitions set. The x86 Intelligent Updater package can be used to update Corporate Edition clients and servers. This all inclusive updater will update all of the products listed...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Norton Co., Antivirus, Microsoft Exchange Server, Intel X86, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, E-mail Servers, Security, Software, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- When Good Instructions Go Bad: Generalizing Return-Oriented Programming to RISC
- This paper reconsiders the threat posed by Shacham's "Return-oriented programming" - a technique by which OX-style hardware protections are evaded via carefully crafted stack frames that divert control flow into the middle of existing variable-length x86 instructions - creating short new instructions streams that then return. The paper believes this...
- Tags: RISC, Intel X86, Malware, Instruction, Association For Computing Machinery, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Processors, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-10-31
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers
- As far as I'm concerned, when an organization buys an IBM mainframe to run Linux somebody should be fired - but not the DP guy who bought it: his boss: the non technical guy who approved it without carefully reviewing the alternatives. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Linux, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Data-processing, X86 Server, Processors, Semiconductors, Components
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failureDificult to grabsun startegy regarding opensolaris/solaris x86 is very difficult to grad, and I think that is partly due to sun having changed their strategy over time.First, i think the program was started when they didn't know the outcome of niagara.the risc...
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, second-one, Intel x86, Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure
- I think the short answer to "what happened to growth in the OpenSolaris community" is Ian Murdock; but the longer answer is that growth continues but enthusiasm lags and the commercial applications market has become more a defensive one than a leading edge one. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Growth, Paul Murphy, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Sun Sparc, Systems Story, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Blog posts 2008-10-15

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