IBM Launches New Octa-core Chips and Servers

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Ahem, the debian/ubuntu repos have everything precompiled for ppc. Gentoo compiles it for you.

There already is software for this, it's just that consumers don't really know about it. Of course, at first, only geeks like us would run something like gentoo or debian on this, if we had the chance. BUT, it is as easy as hell to make a bootable install cd after you've created a basic and bootable system, so I think this would catch up in the geek world, if it was cheap. But it won't be.
Even then, would you buy a system, that cannot natively run crysis ?


AND, for the pci-ex extensions in a vm- the lag would be generated by software, it has nothing to do with the cpu.
 
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Hypothetically, and with an unlimited budget, one could use these chips to run Mac OSX 10.5.8, or is this a different variant of the ppc architechture?

Going back to what someone mentioned above, I'm pretty sure some revision of Windows 3.1 ran on power pc arch. enjoy your windows PPC, :)
 
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