I think they probably kept the debugging symbols in the OS. DP4 had this, and those lucky enough said it was slow and a RAM hog.
still, just a guess on my part.
which brings us back to an answer for the original question, why is Tenon making this?
More Apps. by doing this, Jobs can now counter the most venerable argument made about the mac by PC users: There's no software.
I'm really happy about this as a mac User because now I'll be able to do all my homework from home. Computer graphics natively on the Mac, and my CS stuff through an Xterm
Pardon me for playing devils advocate, but this might actually be good for the gaming community at large.
Think about it: MS-applications bought a games developer who made in-house tools to keep as much operating system specific calls out of their codebase. if you read this interview with Jason Jones, you'll see that Bungie will have complete control over which platforms they develop for. Given the studio's Mac heritage, it's highly unlikely that they will decide to drop Halo development for the Mac.
Furthermore, I'm willing to speculate that with the MS breakup pending appeals, that a linux port wouldn't be too far off either. Bungie always had a strange obsession with worldwide domination, you know:-)
Actually, There were no plans to update the Myth series after Chimera, on any platform. Who knows, Take 2 interactive, now owners of Oni and Myth could find another development studio to continue on the series past what Jason Jones and Alex Seropian felt was the end of the series, but such a sequel would seem unlikely as the cross platform tools Bungie made are probably in house software.
Apple refuses to give Be the specs for their machines since the Beige G3's. It would be silly for them to, since they are targeting the same audience. I'm not sure why slashdot would be interested in Be either. Especially since it's CEO, Jean Louis Gassee, was a fervent advocate of keeping Apple's hardware proprietary, when he worked there. Who knows, maybe he changed?
The yellow box, as I understand it, is an emulator.
just to correct this statement, the yellow box/ Cocoa is just a collection of libraries. Apple has a bunch of documentation on their dev site about them.
but you're right about the drivers. It's a good thing there is an xfree86 port in development.
The top of the line G4's are a lot cheaper than the top of the line Pentiums.
of course, I'm ignoring performance here. just price.
On the low end, however, the PIII seems to have the low end G4 beat. for one PIII you'd have to buy a thounsand low end g4's to get the same price. (see here versus the Mot press release above. [although mot's press release is quite old, I don't think the prices have changed much.]).
interesting. Too bad Mot and IBM aren't competing for the PowerPC G4 market, like AMD and Intel have been. Hopefully this will change when someone fabs IBM's PPC mobo design.
still, it'd be nice to be able to bench PPC architectures versus Intel architectures to see which on is faster. how about redhat versus it's ppc derivative,linux ppc?
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I think they probably kept the debugging symbols in the OS. DP4 had this, and those lucky enough said it was slow and a RAM hog. still, just a guess on my part.
which brings us back to an answer for the original question, why is Tenon making this?
More Apps. by doing this, Jobs can now counter the most venerable argument made about the mac by PC users: There's no software.
I'm really happy about this as a mac User because now I'll be able to do all my homework from home. Computer graphics natively on the Mac, and my CS stuff through an Xterm
Pardon me for playing devils advocate, but this might actually be good for the gaming community at large.
:-)
Think about it: MS-applications bought a games developer who made in-house tools to keep as much operating system specific calls out of their codebase. if you read this interview with Jason Jones, you'll see that Bungie will have complete control over which platforms they develop for. Given the studio's Mac heritage, it's highly unlikely that they will decide to drop Halo development for the Mac.
Furthermore, I'm willing to speculate that with the MS breakup pending appeals, that a linux port wouldn't be too far off either. Bungie always had a strange obsession with worldwide domination, you know
Actually, There were no plans to update the Myth series after Chimera, on any platform. Who knows, Take 2 interactive, now owners of Oni and Myth could find another development studio to continue on the series past what Jason Jones and Alex Seropian felt was the end of the series, but such a sequel would seem unlikely as the cross platform tools Bungie made are probably in house software.
Apple refuses to give Be the specs for their machines since the Beige G3's. It would be silly for them to, since they are targeting the same audience. I'm not sure why slashdot would be interested in Be either. Especially since it's CEO, Jean Louis Gassee, was a fervent advocate of keeping Apple's hardware proprietary, when he worked there. Who knows, maybe he changed?
just to correct this statement, the yellow box/ Cocoa is just a collection of libraries. Apple has a bunch of documentation on their dev site about them.
but you're right about the drivers. It's a good thing there is an xfree86 port in development.
look here
The John Fred Sanchez refers to is none other than Mr. Id himself, John Carmack. very cool stuff.
I'm not quite sure where the new PowerPC processors fall. They're more expensive than Intel Coppermine chips,...
This interested me
see...
Motorola's press release for the G4's
versus
Intel's press release for the PIII 866
The top of the line G4's are a lot cheaper than the top of the line Pentiums.
of course, I'm ignoring performance here. just price.
On the low end, however, the PIII seems to have the low end G4 beat. for one PIII you'd have to buy a thounsand low end g4's to get the same price. (see here versus the Mot press release above. [although mot's press release is quite old, I don't think the prices have changed much.]).
interesting. Too bad Mot and IBM aren't competing for the PowerPC G4 market, like AMD and Intel have been. Hopefully this will change when someone fabs IBM's PPC mobo design.
still, it'd be nice to be able to bench PPC architectures versus Intel architectures to see which on is faster. how about redhat versus it's ppc derivative,linux ppc?