Merced got preempted by years. If you want a high performance, relatively low cost RISC desk box or tower box, get a computer that uses the G3. Or wait around for the G4 to get released. The only thing that makes the Merced superior in any way to the G3 or maybe the G4 is that the Merced has 64 bit addressing, which PowerPC chips currently only have 32 bit addressing.
You wouldn't use this thing for one machine. You would have a dedicated box at each end of the line to divide it into many, many DSL speed channels, or a very good number of gigabit connections. Even still, a 1000 gigabit channels would be great to have. A normal machine these days can handle gigabit ethernet, provided you have a gigabit ethernet card. Luckily, all even slightly newish or even a bit old Macs have built in gigabit ethernet. My 180 MHz 604e PPC Mac has gigabit ethernet built in, and it's more than a year old!
PPC MacOS's equivalent to DLLs are shared libraries. PPC MacOS's shared library architecture is more sophisticated than Win32's DLLs. Instead of using virtual memory to map files onto memory, PPC MacOS's code fragment architecture does not require virtual memory and performs better without virtual memory. A shared library is a type of code fragment when it is loaded into memory, and a code fragment is simply a table of contents, storage space for globals and statics, as well as code. It is much harder to work with code fragments than DLLs if you are an assembly language programmer, but if you program in a normal programming language, the compiler handles the interaction with code fragments required to call functions in other code fragments. Simply, code fragments are a far more sophisticated, complex method to do the same thing that DLLs do without being slowed by virtual memory, memory page management, accessing files, etc. Code fragments are much more suited to a RISC environment than a CISC or Intel environment, which is why you probably will not be seeing a version of Windows which compares directly with a code fragment architecture any time soon.
Intel is far smarter than Microsoft. Just look at Microsoft's defense - Bill Gates suffering sudden inexplicable memory loss. Just look at the dumb tape that Microsoft botched. And look at how Microsoft let incriminating memos and email sit around for people to find!
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Merced got preempted by years. If you want a high performance, relatively low cost RISC desk box or tower box, get a computer that uses the G3. Or wait around for the G4 to get released. The only thing that makes the Merced superior in any way to the G3 or maybe the G4 is that the Merced has 64 bit addressing, which PowerPC chips currently only have 32 bit addressing.
You wouldn't use this thing for one machine. You would have a dedicated box at each end of the line to divide it into many, many DSL speed channels, or a very good number of gigabit connections. Even still, a 1000 gigabit channels would be great to have. A normal machine these days can handle gigabit ethernet, provided you have a gigabit ethernet card. Luckily, all even slightly newish or even a bit old Macs have built in gigabit ethernet. My 180 MHz 604e PPC Mac has gigabit ethernet built in, and it's more than a year old!
The only type of government that works is socialism. Just look at places such as Sweden and New Zealand!
PPC MacOS's equivalent to DLLs are shared libraries. PPC MacOS's shared library architecture is more sophisticated than Win32's DLLs. Instead of using virtual memory to map files onto memory, PPC MacOS's code fragment architecture does not require virtual memory and performs better without virtual memory. A shared library is a type of code fragment when it is loaded into memory, and a code fragment is simply a table of contents, storage space for globals and statics, as well as code. It is much harder to work with code fragments than DLLs if you are an assembly language programmer, but if you program in a normal programming language, the compiler handles the interaction with code fragments required to call functions in other code fragments. Simply, code fragments are a far more sophisticated, complex method to do the same thing that DLLs do without being slowed by virtual memory, memory page management, accessing files, etc. Code fragments are much more suited to a RISC environment than a CISC or Intel environment, which is why you probably will not be seeing a version of Windows which compares directly with a code fragment architecture any time soon.
Intel is far smarter than Microsoft.
Just look at Microsoft's defense - Bill Gates suffering sudden inexplicable memory loss.
Just look at the dumb tape that Microsoft botched.
And look at how Microsoft let incriminating memos and email sit around for people to find!
I want a Palm V!
Bill Gates is just an ignorant, stupid, moronic, blind pissant with too much money.