Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 22:07 UTC, submitted by Floris Lambrechts
More than one million devices have already shipped with LinuxBIOS, and the growth is continuing. In his interview for the upcoming FOSDEM 2007 conference, LinuxBIOS creator Ronald Minnich talks about vendor support, the One Laptop Per Child BIOS, and his reluctance towards EFI.
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That's because an AMD 2000+ CPU does *not* run at 2GHz. The 2000+ rating means its comparable to an Intel CPU running at 2GHz. A pretty pointless rating system actually.
Unless I'm horribly mistaken on this, in which case, correct me.
I'm not sure, but I think it's not "an Intel cpu running at 2GHz" but an Intel Pentium 4 cpu running at 2GHz. My Athlon XP 2600+ @1.9 GHz is a tiny bit slower than a P4 2.6 Ghz, so it's not that far from the truth.
Compare it to other Intel cpus, though, and the xxxx+ thing doesn't make any sense at all. Still I can understand why AMD came up with this, because in the P4 era clockspeed actually did not mean real world speed. But people are easily fooled.
Yet AMD have to stop it some time because it would be bizarre to take the P4, one of the cpus Intel shouldn't be proud of at all, as some kind of a golden standard for benchmarking.