6. For the record, I'm not Chinese, nor do I know how to write Chinese characters, but I'd be willing to bet BILLIONS of Chinese would buy a cheap computer with an interface that had input and display in their native tounge and print without having to resort to learning another character set and another language to use it. I'm pretty sure that billions of chinese wouldn't, since from my last trip to china, I'm pretty sure that electricity to many of them is still a novelty.
Well, in the ways of web sites you may want to checkout the Linux Knowledge Base its not up and running yet, however they are planning shortly after the new year(actually they are planning for Jan. 1, but right now the actual estimates are late first week, early second) I've done some work with them(consider this any disclamer you require) and they seem like they have good design, and VA Linux and a few other companies are sponsering them.
I remember reading that RAMBUS has a high latency, this means that if you actually use your memory(and with something like this I'm betting you do) it will slow you down. Seak alternitives here. I would also recommend the K7(aka Athlon) a much better performace engine, that is unless you are going to make use of the SIMD instructions in the PIII. Remember, measure once, cut twice. Thats a lot of wasted time, and money in this case.
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6. For the record, I'm not Chinese, nor do I know how to write Chinese characters, but I'd be willing to bet BILLIONS of Chinese would buy a cheap computer with an interface that had input and display in their native tounge and print without having to resort to learning another character set and another language to use it. I'm pretty sure that billions of chinese wouldn't, since from my last trip to china, I'm pretty sure that electricity to many of them is still a novelty.
I'm not a microsoft detractor(well sometimes, but I bash everything when I'm grumpy) but they do make some good points.
This website should be your bible if you design major gui's(they also have a hall of fame)
Well, in the ways of web sites you may want to checkout the Linux Knowledge Base its not up and running yet, however they are planning shortly after the new year(actually they are planning for Jan. 1, but right now the actual estimates are late first week, early second) I've done some work with them(consider this any disclamer you require) and they seem like they have good design, and VA Linux and a few other companies are sponsering them.
After porting all the code.
if thats the case you might as well go w/ a 64 bit chip and if Linux falls down go w/ True64 or Solaris.
I remember reading that RAMBUS has a high latency, this means that if you actually use your memory(and with something like this I'm betting you do) it will slow you down. Seak alternitives here. I would also recommend the K7(aka Athlon) a much better performace engine, that is unless you are going to make use of the SIMD instructions in the PIII. Remember, measure once, cut twice. Thats a lot of wasted time, and money in this case.