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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2005-12-28
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.
Pointless ?? - not if your main competitor has build up the market on pure numbers.
BTW the K7 Performance Rating scheme compares the procesor performance with the Athlon Thunderbird.
The Performance Rating was cooked up by AMD, Cyrix and Centaur and originally was called Pentium Rating. That one was a comparison with the Pentium product line. Intel didn't liked that and took the matter to court. That is why the rating scheme today is called Performance rating and does not compare with the Intel Pentum productline.
But the Thunderbird sort of matched the PIV and thereby you get a sort-of-comparison with the PIV line.
With the arrival of the K8 productline - AMD has changed the comparison index, I have no idea of what they compare with today, but it is not the Thunderbird and it s not the Pentium product line.