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Rearview madness and Wintel customer spin: Rearview madness and Wintel customer spinHyperthreading?Murph, could you explain the differences between real threading, the long abandoned hyperthreading used before multi-cores on intel chips and those new coolthreads?And maybe tell us why they are so desirable that you see intel go that way as well?Hyperthreading was essentially a poor-mans multicore...; Tags: Processors, Nicolas Carr, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., coolthread, HyperThreading, multi-core, Wintel; Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Competitive advantage and cost centers: Competitive advantage and cost centersCorrection Murphy...You wrote "A desktop PC, for example, can't boot if the network is "down", and even users whose previous experience with this prompts them to prefer a laptop despite the smaller keyboard and screen, are locked out of Word or other files on the central...; Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows, competitive advantage, network, network failure, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-05-19

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