Actually... It **WAS** a 64 bit machine...
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Actually, the jaguar claimed it was a 64 bit machine because of its "Tom and Jerry" custom processors. It was not a fully 64 bit machine, but the parts of it that necessitated 64 bit processing were given those capabilities. It had essentially 3 processors. There was a 68000 that controlled the direction the code was to be processed, and it pushed the code to one of the two graphics processors (Tom and Jerry). As you know, the 68000 is a 32 bit processor, but it was just a controller really, and it didn't need the 64 bit capabilities for the job it was assigned.
Just because a machine isn't 64 bit across the board doesn't mean it isn't a 64 bit machine. It was 64 bits where needed.
The computer you are sitting at right now probably would not exist if Compaq didn't win in court against IBM. Compaq reverse-engineered IBM's ROM BIOS and created one that worked, in every way, just like IBM's.
If I walked into MS and take some of their code and release it onto the internet, that is stealing and it is illegal.
If I bought Microsoft Office and decided to write a program that will open up Office documents, manipulate them and run Office plug in applications, that is called being innovative. There are no laws against that. In fact, you could probably put up a case that it is monopolistic to make a product that others can not compete with...
Stop your Microsoft thinking and get back to the real world.
All console systems have an OS of some sort. They usually are in the form of a BIOS and OS slammed together, but there is an OS. Game developers would have to write software to talk to all of the components of a console if this didn't exist. This is also part of the reason Nintendo and companies like it are miffed. Some of the emu authors who stray more to the dark side of things have distributed ROM images of the systems (NOT the games, but the system itself). It *IS* illegal to distribute the ROM of a system.
I'd like to learn Perl. I have a few applications for it. Unfortunately, I know very little about programming (I was pretty good with GW Basic and QuickBasic... but that was a *long* time ago). I was wondering, what would be the best way for me to back into programming and launch into Perl? Should I try the Camel book? I need a lot of hand holding...
Normal phone lines are analog: they transmit data as a series of peaks and valleys. Your "modem" is a MOdulator/DEModulator: it modulates outgoing data from digital to analog, and demodulates incoming data from analog to digital.
Above a certain threshold (called Shannon's Limit) the signal-to-noise ratio of any medium becomes too low to reliably transfer data. The analog phone line is the limiting factor in the speed of data transmission because of the inherent noise it contributes.
Today's telephone network is increasingly digital. In particular, the portion of the phone connection between the phone company and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) is often digital. Digital lines still have noise, and are still subject to Shannon's limit, but they have less noise and a higher ceiling.
Several companies have created techniques that take advantage of the digital portion of the phone network to achieve higher speeds than were possible with a purely analog pathway. These new techniques treat the phone system as a mostly digital network that just happens to have an analog portion.
There are several consequences to the reliance on a half-digital connection. Your Internet service provider (ISP) must have digital phone lines to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). That's the easy part: if your ISP offers 56K, they've got the digital lines.
Hayes were always overpriced
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Overpriced? Maybe. You got a good quality modem with a warranty the company wasn't afraid of standing behind. They are workhorses. I work in a bank and we have some 1200's and 2400's that are kicking around here that still work flawlessly. They were nice enough to reduce their prices to BBS', which was a cool thing. Some of my best friends sweared by them... I wish them well in their next incarnation...
Actually, Hayes filed chapter 11 a few months ago. This isn't news... I doubt they will really go under though. Usually when this happens, another company looking for a good deal with snatch up another after they have filed chapter 11 and have relinquished all of their debts... Happened to Cardinal (which was bought by Hayes...).
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Actually, the jaguar claimed it was a 64 bit machine because of its "Tom and Jerry" custom processors. It was not a fully 64 bit machine, but the parts of it that necessitated 64 bit processing were given those capabilities. It had essentially 3 processors. There was a 68000 that controlled the direction the code was to be processed, and it pushed the code to one of the two graphics processors (Tom and Jerry). As you know, the 68000 is a 32 bit processor, but it was just a controller really, and it didn't need the 64 bit capabilities for the job it was assigned.
Just because a machine isn't 64 bit across the board doesn't mean it isn't a 64 bit machine. It was 64 bits where needed.
The computer you are sitting at right now probably would not exist if Compaq didn't win in court against IBM. Compaq reverse-engineered IBM's ROM BIOS and created one that worked, in every way, just like IBM's.
Thus started the clones.
Thus spoke Zarathustra.
If I walked into MS and take some of their code and release it onto the internet, that is stealing and it is illegal.
If I bought Microsoft Office and decided to write a program that will open up Office documents, manipulate them and run Office plug in applications, that is called being innovative. There are no laws against that. In fact, you could probably put up a case that it is monopolistic to make a product that others can not compete with...
Stop your Microsoft thinking and get back to the real world.
All console systems have an OS of some sort. They usually are in the form of a BIOS and OS slammed together, but there is an OS. Game developers would have to write software to talk to all of the components of a console if this didn't exist. This is also part of the reason Nintendo and companies like it are miffed. Some of the emu authors who stray more to the dark side of things have distributed ROM images of the systems (NOT the games, but the system itself). It *IS* illegal to distribute the ROM of a system.
hehe - Glad to see someone noticed :) I like to use billg's email address so that all flames are directed towards him instead of me...
Anonynimity is your friend.
Okay, flame me if you will...
I'd like to learn Perl. I have a few applications for it. Unfortunately, I know very little about programming (I was pretty good with GW Basic and QuickBasic... but that was a *long* time ago). I was wondering, what would be the best way for me to back into programming and launch into Perl? Should I try the Camel book? I need a lot of hand holding...
he has been saying this for some time now... this isn't really new...
Yeah, your right... I breezed through the article and didn't really read it. Sorry...
ouch!
if you want info on how 56k works, and modem in general for that matter... head over to www.56k.com
k 56whitepaper.html
also check out this white paper:
http://www.nb.rockwell.com/K56flex/whitepapers/
Normal phone lines are analog: they transmit data
as a series of peaks and valleys. Your "modem" is a MOdulator/DEModulator: it modulates outgoing data from digital to analog, and demodulates incoming data from analog to digital.
Above a certain threshold (called Shannon's Limit) the signal-to-noise ratio of any medium becomes too low to reliably transfer data. The analog phone line is the limiting factor in the speed of data transmission because of the inherent noise it contributes.
Today's telephone network is increasingly digital. In particular, the portion of the phone connection between the phone company and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) is often digital. Digital lines still have noise, and are still subject to Shannon's limit, but they have less noise and a higher ceiling.
Several companies have created techniques that take advantage of the digital portion of the phone network to achieve higher speeds than were possible with a purely analog pathway. These new techniques treat the phone system as a mostly digital network that just happens to have an analog portion.
There are several consequences to the reliance on a half-digital connection. Your Internet service provider (ISP) must have digital phone lines to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). That's the easy part: if your ISP offers 56K, they've got the digital lines.
Overpriced? Maybe. You got a good quality modem with a warranty the company wasn't afraid of standing behind. They are workhorses. I work in a bank and we have some 1200's and 2400's that are kicking around here that still work flawlessly. They were nice enough to reduce their prices to BBS', which was a cool thing. Some of my best friends sweared by them... I wish them well in their next incarnation...
Actually, Hayes filed chapter 11 a few months ago. This isn't news... I doubt they will really go under though. Usually when this happens, another company looking for a good deal with snatch up another after they have filed chapter 11 and have relinquished all of their debts... Happened to Cardinal (which was bought by Hayes...).