Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 8:49:11 +0000, Michael S wrote:

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:42:05 +0000
mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) wrote:
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 3:48:36 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:39 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
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In article <20240923105336.0000119b@yahoo.com>,
already5chosen@yahoo.com (Michael S) wrote:
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Why # of CPU cores on die is of particular importance?

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Because multi-core made multi-processor systems commonplace, and
far more software started using multiple threads.

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Another interesting factor is that proprietary server software that
had been licensed by number of CPUs mostly changed to licensing by
number of CPU *sockets*.

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This is one of the reasons one of my employers stayed with 6 YO
software rather than switch to SOLARIS....

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I fail to see relationship between comment of Lowrence D'O and your
response.

Change in licensing terms caused us not to move forward--while
we could afford SW licensing on SunOS we could not under Solaris
on the very same server.