intel not in x86 market because its unprofitable
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intel although defines x86 has little want to be in the market anymore
it supports the x86 for the long term but its profits lie elsewere
datacenters want 64bit because of the accuracy and speed
hell how many boxes does SUN microsystems shift ?
datacenters and Uni's are the big buyers how many banks have intelx86 to do their math ?
very few would bet their storage on them that market is filled by NetApp and the wanabies(robs new employer)
and well number crunchers go and find a sun exec or a dig-ugh-Compaq exec and ask alpha is doing SMT on chip @ 1.33 GHz now (their old OpenVMS cutomers turned out usefull after all !)
Intel Know this and oh what a surprise went with H(i know how to engineer but not market)P and created a arch which works and scales well
not only that they took one look @ the embeded market and bought a DSP firm and told the lawyers to get the StrongARM platform then the PR guys called it Xscale after retooling a bit and low and behold they have a kick arse core running on mW
face it AMD pays intel royaltys and it would not surprise me that the engineering group that deals with IA32 is full of middle engineers trying to eak out anything cool anyone with any sense would go to IA64 or SPARC v8 or Alpha EV8
anyone in the appliances world gets ARM or Mips & maybe Power
--- Video chipset --- the most important thing as interface can be a hard without good support check that it can do nice Frame buffer and X as well as good vesa for nice text mode (the rage128mobility has good support)
---Keyboard --- yes i know but people fail to realize that in the intrests of space they put the windows key where the ctrl key should be check that the keyboard does not put ctrl or alt in strange places
--mouse --- check that it is supported (all I know are but all I know use synaptics or IBM )
---PCMCIA --- check that the root controller is well supported their arnt many so it useally is but some old cheap ones are still sold that are broken and wont work with linux (all the TI ones have worked for me an cirrus one did not though)
---USB --- check what kind of root controller it is and wether it is suported (only intel and apple/LSI ones I have work with 2.4.x)
--eth0/networking--- all built in come from 3com or intel and should work if its not one of these be warey (my advice is get one built in as you only have to buy a PCMCIA one anyway)
--- modem ---- SOFTWARE modedms are presant on most built in to laptop the only ones that I could get even hafe working was the IBM thinkpads from their softmodem project check the lists (get a real oneI dont use a modem much anymore and have a old PCMCIA 3com wich works well )
what do you want from the laptop ?
power house development ?
processor matters as well as memory
presentation ?
PDF/DVI and good X surport
or cool tool to annoy people on trains ?
touch screen a must
I have played with the FPGA's from Xilinx and while they are very cool they are slow @ lookups and vectors this is where people doing custom ASIC hardware will be better but most software problems does not require this
VHDL is nice but I always thought that the machine could do a better job if you described the problem better and arent so abstract
this is intresting but you have to understand that this is like software agents to hardware engineers
how many REAL applications of software agents are there ? this is all mangled up in the EXPERT systems design methodolgy and it become a real quagmire to sort out
if Star Bridge Systems keeps focus then they will be alright
all hell will break lose if they dream up fancy problems to solve, KISS is the order of the day
hope they get somewhere
oh and slashdot did run this story but it is nice that it is a story in its own right
they seem to say that they will sit in the bank and you may look @ your balance and such as well as browse through the banks portle/AOL and buy things this makes pubishing documents about intrest rates easy and so forth because you get rid of paper that cost a bit and when you change the info you need to change the paper and blurb with the web you just change the webpage
just think about it ATMs are a pain the bum to produce and QA and most people use them to check their balance you can do that on the web so less Auto tellers which are expensive
lots of banks are thinking about this because of the paper Issue
these are the orginal big bad boys they lost their way wdoing M$ stuff and their chairman left the company loseing money and found a Job at M$ VP
sucks
NOW they see the light
LINUX the whole way clusters NUMA the lot
and more even more cool XFS file system !!!
now they have realised the docs/code for trusted IRIX
and NSA are actualy doing their JOB and sorting linux out with decent security for the US
hopefully SGI will sell them their stuff and it will make the a stoke load of money and we can all point and say "look SGI does linux and makes Stakes of money"
what do you do if you have no precedent ?
you legislate
this is wrong simply because you cant think of all the way that someone will abuse something
you can trample over people rights so that you make damn sure you get what you want OR
use case history and applie on a case by case basis
silly plain silly
regards
john jones
no one with any sense will trust the silicon from a vendor without having it peer reviewed
there are notes on how OpenBSD would not like to trust IBM crypto accelerator (for ssl and such) because the RSA,FBI,MI5 and various three letter agencies might have tampered with it
why not do an add in for a SOC solution based on the AMBA bus
the Leon is a good example of a LGPL core
you cant you have to rely on the consumer to make the choice
if you dont you are restricting free speach
simply you have to make the choice on what to block OR trust someone to make the choice for you
now personaly I trust no one to do that for me I would rather see the odd silly thing than have a whole bunch of dictionarys censored because they contain banned words
funny if you think of it like that (-;
regards
john jones
tile based rendering no support under linux
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hi
I belive the Nvidia took <B>alot of IP</B> from 3dfx
what about the gigapixel IP
tile based rendering is often better solution such an solution is powerVR
everything is going towards LOW power LOW bandwidth
(these are both subjective low compared to now not before)
often better solution such an solution is powerVR
everything is going on chip ( SOC )
expalintion of PowerVR
PowerVR's unique tile-based rendering approach and on-chip Z and Frame buffer processing drastically reduces memory bandwidth leading to a scalable and significantly lower-cost graphics solution than traditional 3D approaches and enabling new applications for mobile digital devices, set-top-boxes and Internet appliances. PowerVR is uniquely capable of empowering high-performance graphics on consumer devices. PowerVR's patented low-bandwidth architecture is essential to provide high quality digital graphics in affordable consumer electronics solutions. Traditional 3D architectures simply cannot provide comparable graphics processing power at an affordable cost.
look why oh why dont these have standard interfaces ?
why arnt they arnt they useing memory interfaces ?
if they used memory interfaces then they could use JFFS or RAMFS
whats the advantage ?
BTW if you trust the newly dubbed IA32 to your mission critical system then you are a fool in my eyes sorry but its true SPARC/SH/ARM are the way to go because of debug in silicon (-;
can someone please point to his source ?
while there are some I trust none as so far have reveiwed this can someone point to his source so I may review it
and make my mind up myself !
kind regards
john jones
you can have any card that has DVI out and is PCI
(and is supported by XFree86 )
rackthem up each with an output screen
then run an X session on each one
personaly I am thinking RADEON because they rock and are doing DRI
but @ the moment MATROX G450 with the DVI add on card rule the shop they have the best support by a LONG way
plus I have seen 4 of them outputing to plasma screens running solaris 7 intel with Xfree86 already so it can be done !
videoCD is a standard so write in this format and ALL the DVD players will play it
(depends how long your film is most of the time its a short and will fit)
most DVD is deliveded to presses on a DLT so its a case of writeing to a DLT not actualy writeing to a disk
(what to do about small runs is anouther question that I could not answer)
$ uname
darwin
$
writes to a DVD so all you have do is use this (-;
personaly vCD is what I use all machines can play it and DVD boxes under TVs are in all execs rooms and it helps being able to prototype something the night before and turn up and look like a pro droping a small silver disk into their new toy and show them whats what !
Slashdot Mirror
intel although defines x86 has little want to be in the market anymore
it supports the x86 for the long term but its profits lie elsewere
datacenters want 64bit because of the accuracy and speed
hell how many boxes does SUN microsystems shift ?
datacenters and Uni's are the big buyers how many banks have intelx86 to do their math ?
very few would bet their storage on them that market is filled by NetApp and the wanabies(robs new employer)
and well number crunchers go and find a sun exec or a dig-ugh-Compaq exec and ask alpha is doing SMT on chip @ 1.33 GHz now (their old OpenVMS cutomers turned out usefull after all !)
Intel Know this and oh what a surprise went with H(i know how to engineer but not market)P and created a arch which works and scales well
not only that they took one look @ the embeded market and bought a DSP firm and told the lawyers to get the StrongARM platform then the PR guys called it Xscale after retooling a bit and low and behold they have a kick arse core running on mW
face it AMD pays intel royaltys and it would not surprise me that the engineering group that deals with IA32 is full of middle engineers trying to eak out anything cool anyone with any sense would go to IA64 or SPARC v8 or Alpha EV8
anyone in the appliances world gets ARM or Mips & maybe Power
thats how the world is
regards
john jones
right here is a list of things to check
/DVI and good X surport
because EACH model will be differant
--- Video chipset --- the most important thing as interface can be a hard without good support check that it can do nice Frame buffer and X as well as good vesa for nice text mode (the rage128mobility has good support)
---Keyboard --- yes i know but people fail to realize that in the intrests of space they put the windows key where the ctrl key should be check that the keyboard does not put ctrl or alt in strange places
--mouse --- check that it is supported (all I know are but all I know use synaptics or IBM )
---PCMCIA --- check that the root controller is well supported their arnt many so it useally is but some old cheap ones are still sold that are broken and wont work with linux (all the TI ones have worked for me an cirrus one did not though)
---USB --- check what kind of root controller it is and wether it is suported (only intel and apple/LSI ones I have work with 2.4.x)
--eth0/networking--- all built in come from 3com or intel and should work if its not one of these be warey (my advice is get one built in as you only have to buy a PCMCIA one anyway)
--- modem ---- SOFTWARE modedms are presant on most built in to laptop the only ones that I could get even hafe working was the IBM thinkpads from their softmodem project check the lists (get a real oneI dont use a modem much anymore and have a old PCMCIA 3com wich works well )
what do you want from the laptop ?
power house development ?
processor matters as well as memory
presentation ?
PDF
or cool tool to annoy people on trains ?
touch screen a must
regards
john jones
I have played with the FPGA's from Xilinx and while they are very cool they are slow @ lookups and vectors this is where people doing custom ASIC hardware will be better but most software problems does not require this
VHDL is nice but I always thought that the machine could do a better job if you described the problem better and arent so abstract
this is intresting but you have to understand that this is like software agents to hardware engineers
how many REAL applications of software agents are there ? this is all mangled up in the EXPERT systems design methodolgy and it become a real quagmire to sort out
if Star Bridge Systems keeps focus then they will be alright
all hell will break lose if they dream up fancy problems to solve, KISS is the order of the day
hope they get somewhere
oh and slashdot did run this story but it is nice that it is a story in its own right
regards
john jones
it is not free
they seem to say that they will sit in the bank and you may look @ your balance and such as well as browse through the banks portle/AOL and buy things this makes pubishing documents about intrest rates easy and so forth because you get rid of paper that cost a bit and when you change the info you need to change the paper and blurb with the web you just change the webpage
just think about it ATMs are a pain the bum to produce and QA and most people use them to check their balance you can do that on the web so less Auto tellers which are expensive
lots of banks are thinking about this because of the paper Issue
regards
john jones
yeah I cant use a spell checker because they dont have one for WAP
now stop messing around rob and post an answer
(-;
john
all the blit funtions are written in software right ?
so the differance is
ARM7 core
or z80 core
I belive that the GBA dev env is GCC !
rock on how about a emulator or any resources ?
any software example ?
regards
john jones
surly its MPEG ?
isnt it just MPEG if so then its a ISO and therefore you can view any patents from there
most cable is Mpeg and RTP
regards
john jones
SGI machines rock
these are the orginal big bad boys they lost their way wdoing M$ stuff and their chairman left the company loseing money and found a Job at M$ VP
sucks
NOW they see the light
LINUX the whole way clusters NUMA the lot
and more even more cool XFS file system !!!
now they have realised the docs/code for trusted IRIX
and NSA are actualy doing their JOB and sorting linux out with decent security for the US
hopefully SGI will sell them their stuff and it will make the a stoke load of money and we can all point and say "look SGI does linux and makes Stakes of money"
regards
john hoperedhatputXFSin7.1 jones
UDF read/write is cool but VOB files are not comeing any time soon regards john jones
I had problems with the files depending on themselves good to see that they updated their mozilla to 8.2
it rocks on my machine
lets see some speed improvements though
anyone want to run a contest for the greatest speed improvement ?
also openoffice builds are going well on my machine and the corba bridge allows eazel to use it
regards
john jones
come on
its a standard why stop useing IPv4 ?
iso9660 ring any bells ?
thats why and umsdos is better bet than vfat because I dont have that compiled in (-;
regards
john jones
Here's a question
Should it not be written to the specification ?
and patches should be kept private out of the package
What about the encrypted PDF's they are in a patch because the US has strange laws don't fragment it anymore
What is the point if its not to the Spec ?
Regards
John Jones
check out the windows XP on handhelds
2 07
this is what would run on them out of the box and they would most likely use an Xscale CPU because of the mips
check out
http://www.infosync.no/en/news/visnyhet.asp?Link=
for more Stinger shots aka XP on low powered wince devices
regards
john jones
p.s. configure that wince kernel or lose all data protection (-;
I have looked and I centainly cant find anything for this
hardware is the only way to go
sorry
john jones
what do you do if you have no precedent ? you legislate this is wrong simply because you cant think of all the way that someone will abuse something you can trample over people rights so that you make damn sure you get what you want OR use case history and applie on a case by case basis silly plain silly regards john jones
this seems to me a perfect opportunity
s parc/index.html
no one with any sense will trust the silicon from a vendor without having it peer reviewed
there are notes on how OpenBSD would not like to trust IBM crypto accelerator (for ssl and such) because the RSA,FBI,MI5 and various three letter agencies might have tampered with it
why not do an add in for a SOC solution based on the AMBA bus
the Leon is a good example of a LGPL core
my page on it
http://www.mischevouslittle.demon.co.uk/hardware/
why not do this for AES ?
regards
john jones
how can you do it ?
you cant you have to rely on the consumer to make the choice
if you dont you are restricting free speach
simply you have to make the choice on what to block OR trust someone to make the choice for you
now personaly I trust no one to do that for me I would rather see the odd silly thing than have a whole bunch of dictionarys censored because they contain banned words
funny if you think of it like that (-;
regards
john jones
hi
I belive the Nvidia took <B>alot of IP</B> from 3dfx
what about the gigapixel IP
tile based rendering is often better solution such an solution is powerVR
everything is going towards LOW power LOW bandwidth
(these are both subjective low compared to now not before)
often better solution such an solution is powerVR
everything is going on chip ( SOC )
expalintion of PowerVR
PowerVR's unique tile-based rendering approach and on-chip Z and Frame buffer processing drastically reduces memory bandwidth leading to a scalable and significantly lower-cost graphics solution than traditional 3D approaches and enabling new applications for mobile digital devices, set-top-boxes and Internet appliances. PowerVR is uniquely capable of empowering high-performance graphics on consumer devices. PowerVR's patented low-bandwidth architecture is essential to provide high quality digital graphics in affordable consumer electronics solutions. Traditional 3D architectures simply cannot provide comparable graphics processing power at an affordable cost.
yes its marketing speak but its true
regards
john jones
look why oh why dont these have standard interfaces ?
why arnt they arnt they useing memory interfaces ?
if they used memory interfaces then they could use JFFS or RAMFS
whats the advantage ?
BTW if you trust the newly dubbed IA32 to your mission critical system then you are a fool in my eyes sorry but its true SPARC/SH/ARM are the way to go because of debug in silicon (-;
regards
john jones
go off and look for mod lines
the graphics card still scans across and changes the pixels
so yes when you spec it scan lines count
but the refresh rate also counts because LCD have a very limited amount i.e. how fast they can change
john jones
p.s. I have a SGI flatscreen and a #9 card you will see that they are supported in 4.02 and have the modline in there AND the multi link adapter
cheers SGI ! (BTW apples screen is the same but differant interface)
can someone please point to his source ? while there are some I trust none as so far have reveiwed this can someone point to his source so I may review it and make my mind up myself ! kind regards john jones
you can have any card that has DVI out and is PCI
(and is supported by XFree86 )
rackthem up each with an output screen
then run an X session on each one
personaly I am thinking RADEON because they rock and are doing DRI
but @ the moment MATROX G450 with the DVI add on card rule the shop they have the best support by a LONG way
plus I have seen 4 of them outputing to plasma screens running solaris 7 intel with Xfree86 already so it can be done !
regards
john jones
title says it all
(-;
john jones
hey
videoCD is a standard so write in this format and ALL the DVD players will play it
(depends how long your film is most of the time its a short and will fit)
most DVD is deliveded to presses on a DLT so its a case of writeing to a DLT not actualy writeing to a disk
(what to do about small runs is anouther question that I could not answer)
$ uname
darwin
$
writes to a DVD so all you have do is use this (-;
personaly vCD is what I use all machines can play it and DVD boxes under TVs are in all execs rooms and it helps being able to prototype something the night before and turn up and look like a pro droping a small silver disk into their new toy and show them whats what !
have fun
john jones
well cheers collab seem to be going in the right directions
banking is one of the BIG boys and getting accepted in that market counts
hope that linux does as well for them as it