A common claim. Unfortunately it's wrong. Athlon XP doesn't really run any hotter than Pentium 4 does for example. In fact, you coulöd say that XP runs cooler than P4 does.
It is still considerably hotter than PowerPC. Apples didn't have fans until the latest PowerMac G4.
They signed a deal with Motorola to only buy from Motorola any chips that Motorola builds. IBM has faster G3 and G4 processors than Motorola, but Apple can't buy them. Why? Their deal
Actually, nearly all G3 processors come from IBM these days. My iBook has an IBM G3 600mhz in it. All newer iBooks do too.
I guess our currency has finally caught up with Apple. I compared the U.S. Apple store to the Canada Apple Store, and on the 12" PowerBook Superdrive, there is a $300 price discrepancy between the two stores.
Well, if you need it, you can get it. Can I install Red Hat Linux 9 on an Apple box easily and with a nice point-and-click GUI interface?
Red Hat, no. But you can use YellowDog or Mandrake, nice and easy.
Now, between Zaurus, PhotoSmart and RIO, how many I can easily connect to a Mac laptop, have syncronized and working?
Don't know about the Zaurus, but the other two work quite nicely. If the Zaurus doesn't work now, it will soon. There is a large open source community surrounding Mac OS X.
Sun has Solaris for x86 and the last I checked they were still pushing a lot of Solaris on Sparc.
It's not the same. Sun has one API for one operating system. All it takes to get a normal application to port between X86 and Sparc is a recompile.
It doesn't sound like it would be all that expensive or complicated for Apple to support x86 hardware in addition to PPC, especially if they take the Sun model and get real selective about what will and won't run.
Except that Apple has two APIs for Mac OS X. One is portable (Cocoa, the API formerly known as OpenStep) and one that is very Mac oriented (Carbon, AKA the Macintosh C Toolbox++)
They can use many of the low-level drivers from FreeBSD x86, which will ease most of their hardware burden.
No they can't. Darwin uses IOKit for its drivers, I believe they run as seperate Mach processes, and are specific to Darwin. The FreeBSD portion of the Mac OS X/Darwin kernel is limited to the UNIX personality, TCP/IP stack and filesystems. As it stands, the x86 version of Darwin only supported Intel IDE controllers, Intel Ethernet, and not very much else the last time I checked (around version 6.0).
The purpose of making something like this available? It'd send a signal to CPU vendors that they are ready, willing and able to support other CPUs *now*, not just through in-house portability boxes. It'd also give them an opportunity to improve their portability capabilities.
They probably have it running on Intel now. They may even have it running on another non-PowerPC platform like the Sparc or MIPS. I also would not be the least bit surprised to learn that Microsoft has a version of Windows 2003 Server ready for the PowerPC 970 in house, just as they had for Windows NT 4 on the older PowerPC that they actually released.
The purpose of these is both to have leverage to use against the CPU companies, and to make sure their code is clean.
So...Apple will probably be the cheapest place to get a PPC motherboard. If IBM and Apple's motherboard designs are similar enough, it's conceivable that you could run Mac OS X on the IBM, but it wouldn't be very useful.
I think it would be very neat if Apple licenced Mac OS X Server to IBM for use on its PowerPC machines. There would be options for which OS to use on the IBM machine: Linux, IBM's house OS (AIX I think), and Mac OS X Server. No client, of course, as that would threaten Apple's market for things like iDVD and other Apple goodies.
I like my iBook, but I don't see the need to use an Apple server. An IBM server with Mac OS X would be nice for newbie admins and people who need a good AFP server, but Linux would be good too, and I'm sure AIX has its uses.
Also, given the licence costs for Mac OS X server, Apple is making a healthy profit off it, unlike its client version. So Apple is still making a lot of money, just a little bit less than they would if they sold IBM's customer an Xserve.
Mac OS X is not Linux, instead it's actually a BSD. It uses a Mach microkernel with a FreeBSD derived personality to give it its UNIX feel. It uses NetBSD's, FreeBSD's, and OpenBSD's userland components and libraries to provide a UNIX userland environment. It has nothing to do with Linux, except for a few LGPL libraries and GCC as its compiler.
This is standard MSDNAA practice. At my school, we have an MSDNAA agreement. We can distribute MSDNAA software amongst our CS and Engineering students. I personally have acquired:
* Windows 2000 Pro * Windows 2000 Advanced Server * Windows XP * MSDN Library * Visual Studio 6.0 Pro * Visual Studio.NET
All for free. The licence is given to you on a sheet of paper when you sign it out, it essentially says that you can use if for free for non-commercial use as long as you're a student.
I'd like it too.. and you can go to here and download it. Port its i386 asm to PowerPC and build it. It'd be considerably less work than porting Duke3D itself over.
Rather than graphics and other stuff, the asm code would be the big deal, and it doesn't appear to be too substantial.
You'd still need to convert the "AudioLib" to SDL or CoreAudio, but that should be doable too.
But... if you read Ken's page (the author of the build engine), you'd see that he only provided the engine as a.obj file for 3D realms. Now that it's released, 3D Realms could actually do a port to Linux.
Of course, it was released almost 3 years ago, but still... they can do it now:)
It doesn't work too well on my machine. I downloaded the 1.3d Shareware version. The sound may well work with VDMS, but that wasn't the problem. Under XP, the game can't switch to graphics mode. It just creates a black screen.
You've got it backwards... to use Mail you DO have to load Konq, the same way that, using outlook, you have to load IE. Besides, I don't know where you got the idea that Mail is loaded when you start Mozilla. They certainly share a good deal of their code, but Mail remains out of memory until you lauch it.
But that's not what he said. He said that you do not have to load Mail to use Konqueror.
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A common claim. Unfortunately it's wrong. Athlon XP doesn't really run any hotter than Pentium 4 does for example. In fact, you coulöd say that XP runs cooler than P4 does.
It is still considerably hotter than PowerPC. Apples didn't have fans until the latest PowerMac G4.
They signed a deal with Motorola to only buy from Motorola any chips that Motorola builds. IBM has faster G3 and G4 processors than Motorola, but Apple can't buy them. Why? Their deal
Actually, nearly all G3 processors come from IBM these days. My iBook has an IBM G3 600mhz in it. All newer iBooks do too.
Or, if you're Canadian, $200 less than before.
I guess our currency has finally caught up with Apple. I compared the U.S. Apple store to the Canada Apple Store, and on the 12" PowerBook Superdrive, there is a $300 price discrepancy between the two stores.
Guy, you're lucky. I have a 600mhz, its combo drive burns at 4x. I like the laptop all around, but when I'm at home, I use my 48x IDE cdrw.
Why the hell would Apple waste their time adding FireWire 800 support to the iPod?
Purely marketing. Apple would want a killer app type thing for Firewire 800, that way people will buy it.
Well, if you need it, you can get it. Can I install Red Hat Linux 9 on an Apple box easily and with a nice point-and-click GUI interface?
Red Hat, no. But you can use YellowDog or Mandrake, nice and easy.
Now, between Zaurus, PhotoSmart and RIO, how many I can easily connect to a Mac laptop, have syncronized and working?
Don't know about the Zaurus, but the other two work quite nicely. If the Zaurus doesn't work now, it will soon. There is a large open source community surrounding Mac OS X.
Interesting. All my external stuff is firewire, in fact, I purchased a Sound Blast Audigy so I could use them with my PC.
As far as I am concerned USB is for mice, keyboards, and the like. Firewire is for hard drives, burners, etc.
My driver's licence contains my date of birth, signiture, address, height, expiry date, and eye colour.
Anything else is too much information for a drivers licence.
Sun has Solaris for x86 and the last I checked they were still pushing a lot of Solaris on Sparc.
It's not the same. Sun has one API for one operating system. All it takes to get a normal application to port between X86 and Sparc is a recompile.
It doesn't sound like it would be all that expensive or complicated for Apple to support x86 hardware in addition to PPC, especially if they take the Sun model and get real selective about what will and won't run.
Except that Apple has two APIs for Mac OS X. One is portable (Cocoa, the API formerly known as OpenStep) and one that is very Mac oriented (Carbon, AKA the Macintosh C Toolbox++)
They can use many of the low-level drivers from FreeBSD x86, which will ease most of their hardware burden.
No they can't. Darwin uses IOKit for its drivers, I believe they run as seperate Mach processes, and are specific to Darwin. The FreeBSD portion of the Mac OS X/Darwin kernel is limited to the UNIX personality, TCP/IP stack and filesystems. As it stands, the x86 version of Darwin only supported Intel IDE controllers, Intel Ethernet, and not very much else the last time I checked (around version 6.0).
The purpose of making something like this available? It'd send a signal to CPU vendors that they are ready, willing and able to support other CPUs *now*, not just through in-house portability boxes. It'd also give them an opportunity to improve their portability capabilities.
They probably have it running on Intel now. They may even have it running on another non-PowerPC platform like the Sparc or MIPS. I also would not be the least bit surprised to learn that Microsoft has a version of Windows 2003 Server ready for the PowerPC 970 in house, just as they had for Windows NT 4 on the older PowerPC that they actually released.
The purpose of these is both to have leverage to use against the CPU companies, and to make sure their code is clean.
portable code is usually better code.
Unless it's portable code that looks like this:
#ifdef __DOS__
system("cls");
#endif
#ifdef __UNIX__
system("clear");
#endif
s/sue/fuck/g
And print! Don't forget about printing.
So...Apple will probably be the cheapest place to get a PPC motherboard. If IBM and Apple's motherboard designs are similar enough, it's conceivable that you could run Mac OS X on the IBM, but it wouldn't be very useful.
I think it would be very neat if Apple licenced Mac OS X Server to IBM for use on its PowerPC machines. There would be options for which OS to use on the IBM machine: Linux, IBM's house OS (AIX I think), and Mac OS X Server. No client, of course, as that would threaten Apple's market for things like iDVD and other Apple goodies.
I like my iBook, but I don't see the need to use an Apple server. An IBM server with Mac OS X would be nice for newbie admins and people who need a good AFP server, but Linux would be good too, and I'm sure AIX has its uses.
Also, given the licence costs for Mac OS X server, Apple is making a healthy profit off it, unlike its client version. So Apple is still making a lot of money, just a little bit less than they would if they sold IBM's customer an Xserve.
Mac OS X is not Linux, instead it's actually a BSD. It uses a Mach microkernel with a FreeBSD derived personality to give it its UNIX feel. It uses NetBSD's, FreeBSD's, and OpenBSD's userland components and libraries to provide a UNIX userland environment. It has nothing to do with Linux, except for a few LGPL libraries and GCC as its compiler.
I have a question for you. Are XTRA and Telecom NZ
crown corps like Sasktel, owned either directly or indirectly by the government?
Sure, it's:
cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=48 -v redhat-9.iso && reboot
This is standard MSDNAA practice. At my school, we have an MSDNAA agreement. We can distribute MSDNAA software amongst our CS and Engineering students. I personally have acquired:
.NET
* Windows 2000 Pro
* Windows 2000 Advanced Server
* Windows XP
* MSDN Library
* Visual Studio 6.0 Pro
* Visual Studio
All for free. The licence is given to you on a sheet of paper when you sign it out, it essentially says that you can use if for free for non-commercial use as long as you're a student.
Apogee published Keen. Keen was actually developed by Id Software.
Just like Quake.
Big shift, eh?
Shutting off all the TVs to prevent minors from viewing violence.
I prefer to think of it as shutting down freeways to prevent speeding.
Why should services be shut down if they have completely legal purposes?
The same reason highways should be shut down because people use them to speed.
I'd like it too.. and you can go to here and download it. Port its i386 asm to PowerPC and build it. It'd be considerably less work than porting Duke3D itself over.
Rather than graphics and other stuff, the asm code would be the big deal, and it doesn't appear to be too substantial.
You'd still need to convert the "AudioLib" to SDL or CoreAudio, but that should be doable too.
But... if you read Ken's page (the author of the build engine), you'd see that he only provided the engine as a .obj file for 3D realms. Now that it's released, 3D Realms could actually do a port to Linux.
:)
Of course, it was released almost 3 years ago, but still... they can do it now
It doesn't work too well on my machine. I downloaded the 1.3d Shareware version. The sound may well work with VDMS, but that wasn't the problem. Under XP, the game can't switch to graphics mode. It just creates a black screen.
But that's not what he said. He said that you do not have to load Mail to use Konqueror.
Actually, on new Apples, the "ROM" is a file on the drive that is loaded by the firmware at boot time.
The firmware is OpenFirmware, same as used by Sun.
I wonder if the "ROM" is what's keeping Mac OS 9 from booting on new powerbooks. Mac OS X doesn't appear to need it to boot.