Better yet, would it be possible to load a 200-400 meg vmware disk image onto a ramdisk and then fire it up?
I wouldn't expect any major problems, 'cept having 200mb of free ram to load a Win95 image to.
soc
I would imagine that some people already do this... sort of. Using NES, SEGA, SNES, GameBoy, Sega GameGear, Saturn, PSX, and N64 emulators on a box with TV out, you could rig up quite a little entertainment system. Imagine one of those cheap GameBoy emulators on your bigscreen TV... Now THAT'S technology at its finest. Super Mario Land's theme coming out of your JBLs...
I could see some REALLY interesting uses for sports programming... not that/.ers watch sports or anything, but I'll bet there could be some pretty awesome armchair sports photographers.
I know that the Linux Kernel supports SMP on x86 and alpha, I just don't know if Multiple Processors are supported on a PPC build. Sometimes I think it would be easier to download the source myself.
That's all good and well, but are we really that interested in watching Intel and AMD push the same tech up a few more mega(or giga)hertz? I'm all for milking the technology we have, but its about time they move on to something a little more exciting. The next step is 10Ghz, not 1.1Ghz. We are fast approaching a time when 200 more mhz doesn't mean a thing.
Is this the same Cadilliac that can tell, using it's OnStar system and Satillites, EXACTLY where your Cadilliac is, as well as when and where you get in a wreck (air bag deployment)?
I don't care WHAT they put on their cars. I'm not buying from a company whose disgruntled, underpaid workers can monitor my whereabouts.
I'm not the kind to side with the WTO on their policies, but I am astonished that something like this would happen in America. These protesters need to remember that they are guaranteed the right to PEACEFUL assembly, JUST AS THE DELEGATES TO THE WTO ARE. There are better ways to go about making reforms than restricting the rights of others.
Pepper spray 'em all. Respect the rights of others or yours will be taken away.
Even when you consider the millions raised in the RedHat IPO, buying Corel just doesn't make that much sense. Red Hat can't make money by Open Sourcing Corel's products, and if RHAT didn't open source, then their reputation flies out the window. RHAT has a responsibility to the open source community as well as to its shareholders. Corel might fall to RHAT sometime in the future, but a buyout now would either be a huge financial mistake or a sellout for RHAT.
And those who mentioned that RHAT may want Corel's install wizard... I have confidence that the boys down at Red Hat could conjure up something similar themselves, without shelling out millions to buy it.
One final thought... buying out competitors sure doesn't leave much room for "Freedom to Innovate," pardon the phrase. If Red Hat buys Corel, I'm running Slackware.
I'd just like to take this opportiunity to remind everyone that Linus is not only the father/God of Linux, I'd imagine that he is also quite the expert on the i386-based microprocessors in general. Transmata promisies that "Crusoe will be unconventional" and holds patents for "emulating" the i386 chip faster than ever.
From the AMD K7 FAQ at http://www1.amd.com/products/cpg/result/1,1265,314 ,00.html:
Question: Is the AMD Athlon(TM) processor compatible with my favorite software? Answer: Yes. The AMD Athlon(TM) processor was designed to be compatible with the Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, including Windows® 98 and Windows NT®, as well as other leading operating systems such as Unix, Linux, OS/2 Warp, and Novell NetWare. The AMD Athlon processor was designed to be compatible with the existing installed base of more than 60,000 software packages.
To your other questions: ASUS doesn't have licesne to make EV6 boards YET, I'd like to see them do it. There is no Dual K7 board that we've seen yet.
I must agree. Price/performance wise, the Intel Celeron (w/ 128k Cache, not 266/300) processor is the best on the market. It blows away ANY AMD K6-2 product, but costs less. In my original post, I may have sounded like I was putting down the Celeron. I believe that it is the best general use CPU available. BUT...
The K7 is a post-Pentium CPU (for lack of a better term.) It can't be compared to a Celeron. Even AMD is marketing the Athlon as a low-cost high performance serverish CPU. The press releases admit that a K6-2/K6-3 could be better for many people's needs. However, unless you use Photoshop and only SMP enhanced applications, the PIII (and surely the K7) will be the champ.
Socratic Method
What the press releases didn't tell you: USB is 16-Bit ISA with a cord that can detect not WHAT you plug in, but WHEN you plug in. And this is the wave of the future?
In Windows 98, K7 by a long shot. In Windows 2000/NT5 (or NT4), I'd imagine it would depend on the program. If it is SMP optimized enough (ie Photoshop 5 or the like), then the Celerons would put up a good fight. However, the limitations to SMP technology do not allow for a separate RAM Bus (running at only 100MHz, as opposed to 133MHz+ for Athlon) for each processor. This, among other resasons (mostly bus related), is why 2 Celeron 300As at 450MHz do not equal 1 Celeron 900MHz. Also, the FPU Spec scores for the Celeron are VERY LOW as compared to a PIII. Most applications that are SMP optimized are extremely FPU intensive. Linux is the same story as NT.
Anyway, I'd imagine that a K7, or even a PIII, would kick the god-fearing crap out of your Celerons. Even if you were running 20 of 'em.
But remember, with the the Athlon CPUs, SMP=scalability. Likely to be a different story.
Slashdot Mirror
with no online presence? Sure sounds fishy to me. Maybe slashdot needs a topic for vaporware sm
Pretty Funny... www.invester.com
Better yet, would it be possible to load a 200-400 meg vmware disk image onto a ramdisk and then fire it up? I wouldn't expect any major problems, 'cept having 200mb of free ram to load a Win95 image to. soc
If a company makes no effort to protect its trade/service marks, they risk losing the rights to their marks.
I would imagine that some people already do this... sort of. Using NES, SEGA, SNES, GameBoy, Sega GameGear, Saturn, PSX, and N64 emulators on a box with TV out, you could rig up quite a little entertainment system. Imagine one of those cheap GameBoy emulators on your bigscreen TV... Now THAT'S technology at its finest. Super Mario Land's theme coming out of your JBLs...
Then it's about time you got a new TV. Man, my TAPE DECK has USB.
I could see some REALLY interesting uses for sports programming... not that /.ers watch sports or anything, but I'll bet there could be some pretty awesome armchair sports photographers.
All I need is another remote.
I know that the Linux Kernel supports SMP on x86 and alpha, I just don't know if Multiple Processors are supported on a PPC build. Sometimes I think it would be easier to download the source myself.
Does the LinuxPPC kernel support it? Imagine the potential for this thing on distributed.net.
MutilGigaflops could crack rc5 pretty efficiently, I'd imagine.
A SKU is a stock keeping unit , a numeric code for inventory control usually in an electronic database.
This is similar to a Universal Product Code, which is the barcode found on virtually everything these days.
Both refer to a number. A UPC has a standard barcode and numbering system. A SKU isn't universal, and can be different no matter where you are.
SKUs sometimes include letters, too, whereas UPCs are strictly numeric.
I think.
Great! Another bunch of quality code snippets for those DeCSS (a cascading style sheet removal program, of course) mirrors.
I'll put it on mine between my copy of the Hacker's Manifesto and the CyberPatrol hack.
Internet != free information
Civil disobedience == free information
sm
That's all good and well, but are we really that interested in watching Intel and AMD push the same tech up a few more mega(or giga)hertz? I'm all for milking the technology we have, but its about time they move on to something a little more exciting. The next step is 10Ghz, not 1.1Ghz. We are fast approaching a time when 200 more mhz doesn't mean a thing.
SM
Sorry. Nevermind.
sorry
Can E*Trade users get at this IPO like they did RHAT, ie. >100 shares?
Is this the same Cadilliac that can tell, using it's OnStar system and Satillites, EXACTLY where your Cadilliac is, as well as when and where you get in a wreck (air bag deployment)?
I don't care WHAT they put on their cars. I'm not buying from a company whose disgruntled, underpaid workers can monitor my whereabouts.
SocMeth
META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 2.0 Mac"
Suddenly, I'm not afraid of the Internal Security down under...
SocMeth
I'm not the kind to side with the WTO on their policies, but I am astonished that something like this would happen in America. These protesters need to remember that they are guaranteed the right to PEACEFUL assembly, JUST AS THE DELEGATES TO THE WTO ARE. There are better ways to go about making reforms than restricting the rights of others.
Pepper spray 'em all. Respect the rights of others or yours will be taken away.
Scorat.Meth.
Even when you consider the millions raised in the RedHat IPO, buying Corel just doesn't make that much sense. Red Hat can't make money by Open Sourcing Corel's products, and if RHAT didn't open source, then their reputation flies out the window. RHAT has a responsibility to the open source community as well as to its shareholders. Corel might fall to RHAT sometime in the future, but a buyout now would either be a huge financial mistake or a sellout for RHAT.
And those who mentioned that RHAT may want Corel's install wizard... I have confidence that the boys down at Red Hat could conjure up something similar themselves, without shelling out millions to buy it.
One final thought... buying out competitors sure doesn't leave much room for "Freedom to Innovate," pardon the phrase. If Red Hat buys Corel, I'm running Slackware.
Socra.Meth.
I'd just like to take this opportiunity to remind everyone that Linus is not only the father/God of Linux, I'd imagine that he is also quite the expert on the i386-based microprocessors in general. Transmata promisies that "Crusoe will be unconventional" and holds patents for "emulating" the i386 chip faster than ever.
I, for one, am more excited than ever.
SM
From the AMD K7 FAQ at http://www1.amd.com/products/cpg/result/1,1265,314 ,00.html:
Question:
Is the AMD Athlon(TM) processor compatible with my favorite software?
Answer:
Yes. The AMD Athlon(TM) processor was designed to be compatible with the Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, including Windows® 98 and Windows NT®, as well as other leading operating systems such as Unix, Linux, OS/2 Warp, and Novell NetWare. The AMD Athlon processor was designed to be compatible with the existing installed base of more than 60,000 software packages.
To your other questions:
ASUS doesn't have licesne to make EV6 boards YET, I'd like to see them do it. There is no Dual K7 board that we've seen yet.
Socratic Method
PCI. 7+ Years and still the champ.
I must agree. Price/performance wise, the Intel Celeron (w/ 128k Cache, not 266/300) processor is the best on the market. It blows away ANY AMD K6-2 product, but costs less. In my original post, I may have sounded like I was putting down the Celeron. I believe that it is the best general use CPU available. BUT...
The K7 is a post-Pentium CPU (for lack of a better term.) It can't be compared to a Celeron. Even AMD is marketing the Athlon as a low-cost high performance serverish CPU. The press releases admit that a K6-2/K6-3 could be better for many people's needs. However, unless you use Photoshop and only SMP enhanced applications, the PIII (and surely the K7) will be the champ.
Socratic Method
What the press releases didn't tell you:
USB is 16-Bit ISA with a cord that can detect not WHAT you plug in, but WHEN you plug in.
And this is the wave of the future?
In Windows 98, K7 by a long shot.
In Windows 2000/NT5 (or NT4), I'd imagine it would depend on the program. If it is SMP optimized enough (ie Photoshop 5 or the like), then the Celerons would put up a good fight. However, the limitations to SMP technology do not allow for a separate RAM Bus (running at only 100MHz, as opposed to 133MHz+ for Athlon) for each processor. This, among other resasons (mostly bus related), is why 2 Celeron 300As at 450MHz do not equal 1 Celeron 900MHz. Also, the FPU Spec scores for the Celeron are VERY LOW as compared to a PIII. Most applications that are SMP optimized are extremely FPU intensive. Linux is the same story as NT.
Anyway, I'd imagine that a K7, or even a PIII, would kick the god-fearing crap out of your Celerons. Even if you were running 20 of 'em.
But remember, with the the Athlon CPUs, SMP=scalability. Likely to be a different story.
Socratic Method