I agree. Resolution used to be a problem with LCDs (I won't give up 1600x1200), but now there are several high-res LCD monitors available. And if he had used the IBM T210, he could have broken $10,000 for a single machine!:-)
At 50MB/s, Firewire is slower than either ATA or SCSI. Linux supports Firewire, but I wouldn't bet my data on it yet. (Not to mention that x86 BIOSes can't boot over Firewire.)
You're talking about the $20,000 Stratum fixed wireless system; the article is talking about the brand new Harmony 802.11a CardBus cards. These are totally different.
What would this standard API look like? POSIX sucks, but if the standard API was non-Unix-y, then Unix wouldn't be able to efficiently support it. Trying to put a common API on top of very different architectures would just be a mess.
Spring from SunLabs combined the efficiency of Unix with the extensibility of Plan 9 (and then some), and added in some nice features like single-system-image clustering (which, like all other features, was eventually hacked into Linux in the form of Mosix).
It's not possible to keep making a CPU faster without extending the pipeline. It just isn't. That's why there are no 7-stage, 2GHz CPUs and probably never will be.
People keep wondering why there are so many open wireless networks around. Sure, many of them are probably explained by laziness. But I'll bet a lot of them are due to good old-fashioned cheapness.
When I bought my access point, I got the absolute cheapest one I could find; of course it only has useless 40-bit WEP and the configuration utility only runs on Windows (which I don't have). But I'm not worried about people freeloading; I just turn it off when I'm not using it.:-)
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I agree. Resolution used to be a problem with LCDs (I won't give up 1600x1200), but now there are several high-res LCD monitors available. And if he had used the IBM T210, he could have broken $10,000 for a single machine! :-)
The Thunder K7 motherboard has two 10/000 NICs built in. Gigabit seems cool, but I don't have a NAS at home.
At 50MB/s, Firewire is slower than either ATA or SCSI. Linux supports Firewire, but I wouldn't bet my data on it yet. (Not to mention that x86 BIOSes can't boot over Firewire.)
You're talking about the $20,000 Stratum fixed wireless system; the article is talking about the brand new Harmony 802.11a CardBus cards. These are totally different.
MFCd? Giants? At least they explained what KSE and SMPng are, but it would have been nice to have that at the beginning of the article.
Can you run MOL without a proper Mac ROM, though?
Yes.
Also, how close is POWER4 to PowerPC, anyway?
Power4 uses the 64-bit PowerPC instruction set, which is a superset of the 32-bit PowerPC instruction set used in G3s, G4s, etc.
What would this standard API look like? POSIX sucks, but if the standard API was non-Unix-y, then Unix wouldn't be able to efficiently support it. Trying to put a common API on top of very different architectures would just be a mess.
Spring from SunLabs combined the efficiency of Unix with the extensibility of Plan 9 (and then some), and added in some nice features like single-system-image clustering (which, like all other features, was eventually hacked into Linux in the form of Mosix).
I know that's a joke, but Mac apps would probably run pretty fast under MacOnLinux on this machine.
DirectFB has graphics acceleration for several cards.
MOL has been around for a long time and they haven't said anything yet.
If you look at the MOL site, the front page says it doesn't need a Mac ROM. And the User Guide says "MOL can run on non-Apple hardware."
Maybe it's better than VMware in some ways. :-)
A lot of the questions about "what's the point?" and "is it emulation or not?" can be answered by thinking of MoL as like VMware for PowerPC.
The article is from 1997; Freenet wasn't around then.
That article is so old the project is over already. Still interesting to think about, though.
Not all PowerPCs are 64-bit; in fact most of them are 32-bit. AIX, K42, and Linux are all available for PPC64.
Correction: The 74x0 CPUs are 32-bit.
ORP is a research Java VM from Intel with fast JITs and GCs. It's not usable for real work, though.
It's not possible to keep making a CPU faster without extending the pipeline. It just isn't. That's why there are no 7-stage, 2GHz CPUs and probably never will be.
People keep wondering why there are so many open wireless networks around. Sure, many of them are probably explained by laziness. But I'll bet a lot of them are due to good old-fashioned cheapness.
:-)
When I bought my access point, I got the absolute cheapest one I could find; of course it only has useless 40-bit WEP and the configuration utility only runs on Windows (which I don't have). But I'm not worried about people freeloading; I just turn it off when I'm not using it.
I think the point was that running a non-MS solution on Intel boxes would be cheaper than running a non-MS solution on mainframes.
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/sourceforge/heroines /bcast-2000b_va-1.i386.html
AFAIK, US copyright law does not care how a copy is made. If you keep it to yourself, it's legal; if you share it, it's illegal.
Use a CD player with digital out and a sound card with digital input.