Good grief. If any of you had read the microprocessor report article on this, you'd be a lot better informed.
1. Serial protocol more noise resistant, longer cables at higher freq without signal problems or FCC issues.
2. Compatible protocol. Should be fairly simple to create drives/chipsets that support both serial and parallel ATA. Host or drive side dongles will also readily available.
3. Chipsets are getting so integrated that they just can't fit all those pins on them any more. This is becoming problem for creating Tinma style systems.
It's fairly clear that the supreme court is sending the MS case back to the voters to decide.
3-4 supreme court justices and a entirely new DoJ will be appointed by the next president. Clearly the court wouldn't want to get caught in such a political case right before elections.
So you guys have a choice. One candidate will probably prosecute, the other will throw it out. Decide which one you want, and vote.
If you don't vote and it doesn't go your way, quit your bitching.
Damn right. All these dumbasses that are talking about no need for binary compatability because x-and-so architecture rocks. Or open source rocks.
But obviously they haven't worked in the industry that actually provides CPUs and systems. ISA compatability is a do or die thing. Forcing people to recompile is an end-of-company decision.
Dismissing how important ISA compatability is in the computer industry today is simply an exercise in masturbation by kids who haven't spent enough time in the trenches.
The device that I would like for the car is a mp3 player that plays mp3 tracks off of a DVD rom.
Just grab your CD collection 100 CD's at a time and burn them onto DVD rom as mp3 files. Then you just need 10-20 DVD's in your car. Should also play normal CDs of course.
But that's beside the point: the fact remains that if we do spend the time to write the code by hand, we can always do a much better job than the compiler.
This is only true for a subset of the programers that know the machine well enough. Current machines are forced to be easy for idiots to hand tune. Because they run old hand tuned code.
Imagine if you were required to ensure that ALU0 was never reading a 2 cycles bypass from memory while ALU1 used the shifter.
"What's a bypass?" Exactly.
Now imagine that there are about 800 of these rules. And they change at every chip rev. It sure makes life easy for the HW guys, but do you really think you can consistently beat the compiler? Various academic machines have had these types of rules, but they never took off. Mainly because there are to many studs and not enough engineers.
To be factual, the SpeedStep date was moved up ~2 months shortly after Transmeta announced the data of the announcement. This may or may not cooincidence, but lets keep the order of events correct.
Sorry, but we can't get a connection to the ZDTV stream for the employees because it's maxed out. Can someone share an office with a buddy? This is not a hoax. If you need confirmation try ddunn@transmeta.com
Thought someone here might be interested. I'm usually a lurker, but figured this was safe to post. http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/zdtvnews/features/story/ 0,3685,2119139,00.html
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Of course it is. How do you think CMS was written?
1. Serial protocol more noise resistant, longer cables at higher freq without signal problems or FCC issues.
2. Compatible protocol. Should be fairly simple to create drives/chipsets that support both serial and parallel ATA. Host or drive side dongles will also readily available.
3. Chipsets are getting so integrated that they just can't fit all those pins on them any more. This is becoming problem for creating Tinma style systems.
It's good to see people finally realizing that oil exploration is more important than a couple silly trees.
So once again, congrats and thanks for your support on plundering the environment.
3-4 supreme court justices and a entirely new DoJ will be appointed by the next president. Clearly the court wouldn't want to get caught in such a political case right before elections.
So you guys have a choice. One candidate will probably prosecute, the other will throw it out. Decide which one you want, and vote.
If you don't vote and it doesn't go your way, quit your bitching.
But obviously they haven't worked in the industry that actually provides CPUs and systems. ISA compatability is a do or die thing. Forcing people to recompile is an end-of-company decision.
Dismissing how important ISA compatability is in the computer industry today is simply an exercise in masturbation by kids who haven't spent enough time in the trenches.
Just grab your CD collection 100 CD's at a time and burn them onto DVD rom as mp3 files. Then you just need 10-20 DVD's in your car. Should also play normal CDs of course.
This is only true for a subset of the programers that know the machine well enough. Current machines are forced to be easy for idiots to hand tune. Because they run old hand tuned code.
Imagine if you were required to ensure that ALU0 was never reading a 2 cycles bypass from memory while ALU1 used the shifter.
"What's a bypass?" Exactly.
Now imagine that there are about 800 of these rules. And they change at every chip rev. It sure makes life easy for the HW guys, but do you really think you can consistently beat the compiler? Various academic machines have had these types of rules, but they never took off. Mainly because there are to many studs and not enough engineers.
To be factual, the SpeedStep date was moved up ~2 months shortly after Transmeta announced the data of the announcement. This may or may not cooincidence, but lets keep the order of events correct.
Thanks, we got in using windows media player. You can try the same.
Sorry, but we can't get a connection to the ZDTV stream for the employees because it's maxed out. Can someone share an office with a buddy? This is not a hoax. If you need confirmation try ddunn@transmeta.com
Thought someone here might be interested. I'm usually a lurker, but figured this was safe to post. http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/zdtvnews/features/story/ 0,3685,2119139,00.html