Monthly Renewal: March 2008
Another month, another of these posts.
This has been a quiet month, in terms of things going on on the surface. A series of updates dealing with common-but-not-incredibly-exciting issues, and no major upheavals in the way the site looks or works. Standard stuff, right?
In the background, things are much more interesting. Plans for the new, bigger Big Processor Guide are rolling along nicely, and there will be some major surprises in store. The surprises will be in a future post; for now, I can talk about the less surprising things.
First I want to talk about the evolution of the Big Processor Guide, because it is indicative of how things tend to work for 10stripe. In its original form, the guide was solely about AMD's recent (at the time) x86 processors. Then it was expanded to cover their older stuff, and then expanded again to include everything after the 486. Some time later came its largest expansion to date, incorporating Intel's product line over the same period.
Now it is set to be expanded yet again, in two big ways. The first is that it will soon include products from other manufacturers, including Transmeta and Cyrix. The second is that it will, for the first time, include non-x86 processors. POWER is in, SPARC is in, and yes, so is Itanium. This will be a big, big expansion, and so we are moving with some care to ensure that it is not too overwhelming.
There is a good possibility that the net result will be several distinct, interlinked guides. It is too early to say. Stay tuned.