[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone for a Linux port on this thing?

[Steve Baker]

Peter A. Koren wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:31 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>>http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html
>>
>>Don't press on the last tab on the disk properties :)
>>
>>Looks interesting...
>>
> 
> Shouldn't they have waited for April 1. This sure has the stink of a
> hoax all over it.

Yeah - that's for sure.

To build a totally optical CPU of any description would be impressive.

To build one that's x86 compatible - amazing - and at >6GHz!

To have ALL of the circuitry be optical would be VERY suprising.

To have a Terabyte of any kind of RAM would be ground-breaking.
For it to be optical...yeah - we're taking Nobel prize here.

But to get all of that into a laptop and have it ready to go to
market without the news leaking out....Nah.  Not gonna happen.

...and if you were a chip company making some kind of ground
breaking release - why would you take the chance on all the funky
OS details like voice operated everything.

Think what they were claiming too - TOTALLY optical - everything
except the DVD drive.

So even the stupid low bandwidth analog circuitry that digitizes
the microphone?   Why on EARTH would you bother...beyond as a
proof of concept or something.

It wasn't remotely convincing.

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