AMD Quad Core

I asked Botp about what equipments were needed for a call center business and he gave me a list of computer hardware which were heavily weighted by AMD Quad Core computers. The Workstations and Servers that he specified were all AMD Quad Cores. This prompted me to Google these specifications and I found out that indeed, a great deal has happened since I took a look at computer processors.

There was one mention of a Cray computer which had 24,000 AMD Quad Core processors all contained in a cabinet with liquid coolant to keep the temperatures from rising and melting these powerful processors. It certainly is a long way since The Connection Machine was invented and boasted of 65, 535 6502 processors that powered the Apple II computers.

The thing that made me realize is that there is a whole generation of processors that I probably will never be privileged to own simply because my needs are well-met by the garden-variety dual-core processors from Intel and AMD. For one thing, 1 gigabyte of DDR2 memory is now the entry-level offering of computer stores, a far cry from the time when I bought my PIII computer which had a whopping 128MB Ram when 32 MB was the standard.