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Ars Technica's Hannibal on IBM's Cell
endersdouble writes "Ars Technica's Jon "Hannibal" Stokes, known for
his many articles on CPU technology, has posted a new article on IBM's new Cell processor. This one is the first part of a series, and covers the processor's approach to caching and control logic. Good read."
motorola and IBM production problems are the main factors in the slow upgrade cycle of Macs, but macs have a much longer useful life. My old 600mhz g3 ibook runs panther, safari, quicktime, iphoto, itunes and everything else I need on a daily basis pretty well. Try saying that about a five year old PC.
sorry 'bout the mess...
Because all the playstation games would need to be rewritten.
Does the Mac have the ~EXACT SAME~ DVD drive at the PS2 does? Nope? Guess you'll have to rewrite the code.
Part of why consoles work so flawlessly is that they're designed to work with a very, ~VERY~ specific set of hardware.
Which can be emulated with software. Did you ever hear of the Virtual Game Station? It ran PS1 games on the Mac back in January of 1999? Ring any bells?
Sony didn't like it, and there was a bitter dispute eventually resolved when Sony just bought all rights to the software from the developer Connectix.
It's obvious that you know jack squat about emulators, so maybe you should chill with your CAPS, and stick the tildes back in your ass. Freakin' arcade games are emulated. Mame came out in 1997?
(Seriously, the tildes are fucking gay. This isn't #reacharound or #cocksmokers, it's slashdot. Use a tag or at the very least an --em-- quad. And I sincerely apologize to any homosexuals reading this for the hateful stereotypes in this parenthetical comment.)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.