considering that they EMPLOY people to work on XFREE86 I dont think that they should do anything else
what should they do ??
oh and the ATI MIPS SOC chip has a linux port
so really ALL of their chips graphics/CPU's support linux and thats better than 99% of the others and definately better than NVidia closed source fscking stuff
that way the Police cant aford them and you know its safe
"why is it bad unlocking codes are all the same we need to get into the cars and we are the only ones with the key"-- rep
Porsche has a dealer code for the unlocking IR that you can clone and get into all 1998 models funny as fuck to watch peoples face when you open their car via your watch (-;
well yes it is because the Pentium ISA is supposed to be obsolete.
no one in their right mind would have predicted Intel or AMD would keep it going this long. (they want to kill it witness IA64)
MIPS was actually designed for high performace useing a combination of compiler design and Hardware design it was a academic project and they got it right.
ARM was designed to be simple take up as little space as possible for manufacturing and implementation (only 2 engineers did the work to start with) as a by product it means that now with moores law you have a product that burns very little power
there are snags MIPS is more complicated than ARM but once you are over 100 MHz it pays dividends the amount of effort that Digital had to go through to do the StrongARM showed this and again with the StrongARM2 (Intel calls it the Xscale or PX250)
the StrongARM design team did not really like the idea of working for Intel so they went off and created Alchemy and got a 500Mhz part with not much trouble they also stuck on 2 10/100Net ports USB client and Host I2C and serial a pretty nice chip but funding took a hit and they went looking for investors AMD saw the money that Intel was making of StrongARM and thought that little Alchemy was a winner.
once AMD was on board they put a LCD contoller dumped 1 of the 2 network interfaces and bingo you have a better StrongARM than Xscale.
in terms of tools
what do you have on x86 ? gcc intel and lcc (plus globs of half baked assemblers)
or ARM has: gcc, ARMCC, Greenhills and acorn
compared to MIPS : gcc algor sgi (plus lots of academic compilers)
oh and MS has.NET JIT's for ARM x86 IA64 and MIPS 32 Plus MIPS64
java has about the same but with sparc and some hardware implementations
regards
john jones
p.s. did I mention that MIPS is really the ONLY Volume 64bit RISC left after Intel butchery
Valgrind and memory leaks
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I am still finding memory leaks via valgrind
oh well it is a.0000000
hopefully GNOME people will profile their code like KDE did for memory leaks
because it really stablized when it was percived that memory was something to worry about
I cant remember the exact quote but it oges something like this
because banks wanted to be secure the invented teller machines that first of all asked for a pin then took a sample of blood and scrapped skin from the back of your neck for DNA testing ending with some very personal questions about you and your family....
people couldnt take it an longer so they invented the identyChip... to answer all the DNA and biometric tests and be rid of personal questions
in the end people stole the identyChips and commited faud as they had before....
nice Idea but should this not be Done with something standard and low power like Bluetooth connect it up to a phone that has your equivlent IdentyChip on it
you could even order ahead through your phone and then when you got to Macky Dees(or any other shop where ques are an issue like Coffe shops and theaters) you have your order ready !
I bet on string based ATI the Nvidia solution you had to licence from them then the ARB did not want to get into that ugly mess only when ATI after being given time and incentive (from MS to do DirectX 8.1) did NVidia change their terms even then its a kludge
I quite like the ATI solution and they right from the start made it so that anyone could implement it, Yay for standards (-;
hope its MIPS based and 64bit and not PowerPC which ISA IMHO is pants and only IBM produce chips
while MIPS you can go and get cores and put it ALL on one chip
MIPS do the 20Kc hard core comeing out of TSMC now PMC do a chip broadcom do a dual core chip NEC do a wacky vr5500 (lots of MIPS B-) ATI (artX people who did the Gamecube) are doing a SOC mips chip with everthing on board such as MPEG4 and USB/IDE/UARTS + ATI radeon output AMD do a SOC with 2 net interfaces + USB/UART which runs better than the StrongARM or Xscale at 500MHz
ReplayTV is a really nice machine and they dont relie on selling data to networks/pepsi/bigcorp to make a profit so makeing the best machine possible is what drives them.
(like it should be and not gathering stats on super bowls adverts and showing me more britney)
if you want a PVR I would advise buy a replay and not a sucky TiVo
(hey we can all have opinions)
I fear that you will be takeing a redhead from the singles population and placeing her into the married population. I find this kind of act intolerable as there are very few of them left as it is.
people only use retained mode when you have to (alot of the time in a real game when you look at a spefic feature thats done in retain mode but the rest not)
the point is that the nice thing about D3D is that it is supported by most vendors now look on a box that a game came in you will find that they require Direct X version 99.8 (-;
the point is that although the API changes it can do the old api's in emulation
much like OpenGL 2.0 will do
all I hope is that ATI's String based extensions to OpenGL get in 2.0 rather than NVidia's so we aren't tied to their hardware
D3D is crap(ish) what make Direct X so good is all the other API's like sound and input (OpenIL and OpenAL be damned as they just dont have the people leading them)
so I have high hopes for the OpenGL ARB to produce something nice that IBM/SONY/APPLE/SUN/HP/3Dlabs can rock Microsoft's little world
the real problem for intel is that the arch does badly for programs that are not cache hitters
they took one look at the people trying to do predictive memory loads and decided not too. this was a LONG time ago and now people have solved the problem so that most of the time you can get things from cache
IA64 fails to get things from cache too well (one of the reasons why they stuck such a large one on) so suffers from the latencey problems more than most
please in terms MHz the PowerPC is well behind even the under funded MIPS CPU's (they dont care so much about MHz but about integration on the same Die i.e. SOC)
really I dont know why SGI dont use this chip
RM9000x2 its got HYPERTRANSPORT like the AMD chips and the ol SysAD bus and Supports DDR SDRAM
all they have to have is GIMP for IRIX ICC'd and most people would be happy for Bitmap manipulation
lots of render's work under IRIX so thats not a problem
the problem is the back end Farm that now EVERYONE uses Linux for on el'cheapo AMD/Intel box's SGI used to live here and now they got shoved out by Linux
they are doing the right thing extend product range and work on getting Linux on decent hardware so they can sell it to their customers
pity Itanium turned out such a PIG
I just hope SGI are doing their own motherboards (-;
done 1GHz dual MIPS chip used in network boxs
HP did it with their PA-RISC =descendant of MIPS arch
IBM did it for POWER
SUN dabbled with it for SPARC but the memory coherency beat them they gave up
inetl engineers suck at these things beacuse they are limited by the x86 arch
are you completely insane to respin silicon its VERY expensive
lets think about this in terms of actual cost
for intel to actually put this in means that it would have to have 64 bit registers, cache lines for 64 bit + lots of other glue logic this adds to the number of gates and so to the COST you dont put it in unless you have to !
they might tell the marketing droids that its a turn off and on feature but really its not
anyway if Transmeta pull their fingers out they can have the first x86-64 "silicon" out the door as they just have to tweak the software layer
sun thank you for java I personally like it and use it where I can
BUT
the CLR is well designed + engineered
for speed and interoperability
Perl.NET VB.NET TCL.NET and even C++.NET will all work and thats what we have around today think interoperability or in Microsoft terms BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
it matters
and with a transport stream that is XML what matters is tools and those tools will be on windows
java's nice but until I see a tool that can debug C and java
forget about it MS wins the services of the "net"
(there are alot more fields that java wins in like phones and TV which is nice for java and means that it does not go away any time soon)
I have an ok knowledge of Unix's (the vendor supplied ones) my question is BSDi did that die in the hands of the wrs takeover or where did it come from ?
FreeBSD looks quite nice and I like the idea of the ports system
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considering that they EMPLOY people to work on XFREE86 I dont think that they should do anything else
what should they do ??
oh and the ATI MIPS SOC chip has a linux port
so really ALL of their chips graphics/CPU's support linux and thats better than 99% of the others and definately better than NVidia closed source fscking stuff
regards
john jones
that way the Police cant aford them and you know its safe
"why is it bad unlocking codes are all the same we need to get into the cars and we are the only ones with the key"-- rep
Porsche has a dealer code for the unlocking IR that you can clone and get into all 1998 models funny as fuck to watch peoples face when you open their car via your watch (-;
regards
john jones
yep I agree
I hope they base the compuserve tests on a stable branch hopefully 1.0 and not some random date
regards
john jones
p.s. is it just me or is this graph scary window open check out 04/11
heres a map of the U.K. now really do you think that broadband can reach most of us ?
http://www.btopenworld.com/broadband/ava61/
really BT need to sort their exchanges out before they offer video on demand via ADSL
(which is their plan after all)
regards
john jones
well yes it is because the Pentium ISA is supposed to be obsolete.
.NET JIT's for ARM x86 IA64 and MIPS 32 Plus MIPS64
no one in their right mind would have predicted Intel or AMD would keep it going this long.
(they want to kill it witness IA64)
MIPS was actually designed for high performace useing a combination of compiler design and Hardware design it was a academic project and they got it right.
ARM was designed to be simple take up as little space as possible for manufacturing and implementation (only 2 engineers did the work to start with) as a by product it means that now with moores law you have a product that burns very little power
there are snags MIPS is more complicated than ARM but once you are over 100 MHz it pays dividends the amount of effort that Digital had to go through to do the StrongARM showed this and again with the StrongARM2 (Intel calls it the Xscale or PX250)
the StrongARM design team did not really like the idea of working for Intel so they went off and created Alchemy and got a 500Mhz part with not much trouble they also stuck on 2 10/100Net ports USB client and Host I2C and serial a pretty nice chip but funding took a hit and they went looking for investors AMD saw the money that Intel was making of StrongARM and thought that little Alchemy was a winner.
once AMD was on board they put a LCD contoller dumped 1 of the 2 network interfaces and bingo you have a better StrongARM than Xscale.
in terms of tools
what do you have on x86 ?
gcc intel and lcc (plus globs of half baked assemblers)
or ARM has: gcc, ARMCC, Greenhills and acorn
compared to MIPS : gcc algor sgi (plus lots of academic compilers)
oh and MS has
java has about the same but with sparc and some hardware implementations
regards
john jones
p.s. did I mention that MIPS is really the ONLY Volume 64bit RISC left after Intel butchery
I am still finding memory leaks via valgrind
.0000000
oh well it is a
hopefully GNOME people will profile their code like KDE did for memory leaks
because it really stablized when it was percived that memory was something to worry about
regards
john jones
nokia are doing this with the symbian OS and thats shipping soon
http://www.nokia.com/phones/7650/
regards
john jones
I would like a phone apple
not hard dont worry about mic and speaker on the thing use a handsfree one
just use the OMAP from TI that has a DSP for MP3 and link that up with the firewire HD and away you go
please please I want to jog to mates phone number (-;
regards
john jones
I cant remember the exact quote but it oges something like this
....
....
because banks wanted to be secure the invented teller machines that first of all asked for a pin then took a sample of blood and scrapped skin from the back of your neck for DNA testing ending with some very personal questions about you and your family
people couldnt take it an longer so they invented the identyChip... to answer all the DNA and biometric tests and be rid of personal questions
in the end people stole the identyChips and commited faud as they had before
nice Idea but should this not be Done with something standard and low power like Bluetooth connect it up to a phone that has your equivlent IdentyChip on it
you could even order ahead through your phone and then when you got to Macky Dees(or any other shop where ques are an issue like Coffe shops and theaters) you have your order ready !
sort it out people
regards
john jones
I bet on string based ATI
the Nvidia solution you had to licence from them then the ARB did not want to get into that ugly mess only when ATI after being given time and incentive (from MS to do DirectX 8.1) did NVidia change their terms even then its a kludge
I quite like the ATI solution and they right from the start made it so that anyone could implement it, Yay for standards (-;
regards
john jones
hope its MIPS based and 64bit and not PowerPC which ISA IMHO is pants and only IBM produce chips
while MIPS you can go and get cores and put it ALL
on one chip
MIPS do the 20Kc hard core comeing out of TSMC now
PMC do a chip
broadcom do a dual core chip
NEC do a wacky vr5500 (lots of MIPS B-)
ATI (artX people who did the Gamecube) are doing a SOC mips chip with everthing on board such as MPEG4 and USB/IDE/UARTS + ATI radeon output
AMD do a SOC with 2 net interfaces + USB/UART which runs better than the StrongARM or Xscale at 500MHz
I would bet on the NEC or ATI chips for this
regards
john jones
yes its been done but badly on TiVo
ReplayTV is a really nice machine and they dont relie on selling data to networks/pepsi/bigcorp to make a profit so makeing the best machine possible is what drives them.
(like it should be and not gathering stats on super bowls adverts and showing me more britney)
if you want a PVR I would advise buy a replay and not a sucky TiVo
(hey we can all have opinions)
regards
john jones
dear sir
I fear that you will be takeing a redhead from the singles population and placeing her into the married population. I find this kind of act intolerable as there are very few of them left as it is.
regards
john jones
the real problem will be working this into the best man speach ....
oh and who is going to be the best man ??
have fun
regards
john 'ijured knee' jones
people only use retained mode when you have to (alot of the time in a real game when you look at a spefic feature thats done in retain mode but the rest not)
x .htm
the point is that the nice thing about D3D is that it is supported by most vendors now look on a box that a game came in you will find that they require Direct X version 99.8 (-;
the point is that although the API changes it can do the old api's in emulation
much like OpenGL 2.0 will do
all I hope is that ATI's String based extensions to OpenGL get in 2.0 rather than NVidia's so we aren't tied to their hardware
D3D is crap(ish) what make Direct X so good is all the other API's like sound and input (OpenIL and OpenAL be damned as they just dont have the people leading them)
so I have high hopes for the OpenGL ARB to produce something nice that IBM/SONY/APPLE/SUN/HP/3Dlabs can rock Microsoft's little world
try haveing a look at
http://www.3dlabs.com/support/developer/ogl2/inde
regards
john jones
the real problem for intel is that the arch does badly for programs that are not cache hitters
they took one look at the people trying to do predictive memory loads and decided not too. this was a LONG time ago and now people have solved the problem so that most of the time you can get things from cache
IA64 fails to get things from cache too well (one of the reasons why they stuck such a large one on) so suffers from the latencey problems more than most
simple
regards
john 'try runnning spec marks on it' jones
this is the biggest load of B** I have seen
you can archive this now just 3G using an up to date ARM processor like XScale and connecting it to a 3G network
you can pull down broadcast quality video in real time and get you emails SMS chat rooms and all the rest its NOT exactly NEW
wake up AMD building a MIPS chip is news !!!
regards
john jones
2002-02-06 10:57:47 AMD now a makes a MIPS processor (articles,amd) (rejected)
please in terms MHz the PowerPC is well behind even the under funded MIPS CPU's (they dont care so much about MHz but about integration on the same Die i.e. SOC)
really I dont know why SGI dont use this chip
RM9000x2 its got HYPERTRANSPORT like the AMD chips and the ol SysAD bus and Supports DDR SDRAM
all they have to have is GIMP for IRIX ICC'd and most people would be happy for Bitmap manipulation
lots of render's work under IRIX so thats not a problem
the problem is the back end Farm that now EVERYONE uses Linux for on el'cheapo AMD/Intel box's SGI used to live here and now they got shoved out by Linux
they are doing the right thing extend product range and work on getting Linux on decent hardware so they can sell it to their customers
pity Itanium turned out such a PIG
I just hope SGI are doing their own motherboards (-;
regards
john jones
done 1GHz dual MIPS chip used in network boxs
HP did it with their PA-RISC =descendant of MIPS arch
IBM did it for POWER
SUN dabbled with it for SPARC but the memory coherency beat them they gave up
inetl engineers suck at these things beacuse they are limited by the x86 arch
regards
john jones
are you completely insane to respin silicon its VERY expensive
lets think about this in terms of actual cost
for intel to actually put this in means that it would have to have 64 bit registers, cache lines for 64 bit + lots of other glue logic this adds to the number of gates and so to the COST you dont put it in unless you have to !
they might tell the marketing droids that its a turn off and on feature but really its not
anyway if Transmeta pull their fingers out they can have the first x86-64 "silicon" out the door as they just have to tweak the software layer
regards
john jones
sun thank you for java I personally like it and use it where I can
BUT
the CLR is well designed + engineered
for speed and interoperability
Perl.NET VB.NET TCL.NET and even C++.NET will all work and thats what we have around today think interoperability or in Microsoft terms BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
it matters
and with a transport stream that is XML what matters is tools and those tools will be on windows
java's nice but until I see a tool that can debug C and java
forget about it MS wins the services of the "net"
(there are alot more fields that java wins in like phones and TV which is nice for java and means that it does not go away any time soon)
regards
john jones
all this means is that the future xbox will run WinCE.NET and have DVR so that cable companys would like to offer it
.NET clients out there (-;
+ MS would get into more liveing rooms because the cable company would like them ergo more
regards
john jones
sorry but I often mess things up because I dont spell checking submissions its a catch all because I cant spell what I am , such is irony.
regards
john jones
I have an ok knowledge of Unix's (the vendor supplied ones) my question is BSDi did that die in the hands of the wrs takeover or where did it come from ?
FreeBSD looks quite nice and I like the idea of the ports system
but what are its high's and lows ?
regards
john jones
sun used to say "we do solaris and only solaris "
they where proud of it as all the Unix vendors where selling NT
now they have linux and solaris that makes 2 in my book
(granted they are both unixy)
I wonder what the SUN sales Spin is going to be now
regards
john jones