What they did was remove all mention of ATI from the keynote/introduction speech. Blackout all mentions of ATI on the literature, remove ATI from the booths etc.
Basically, they just completely ignored the graphics card.
Which is strange considering it was such an amazing graphics card at the time... easily one of the key features of the machine...
Then the conspiracy theories start... more or less immediately apple started migrating to NVidia... I believe they have almost completely migrated in the base configs now.
PPC processors have a 68K compatibility mode. Basically, the instructions can have a 68K flag that tells the processor to execute as such. The problem is that 68K code and PPC code aren't even remotely related to one another, and the processor executes 68K code much more slowly. The processor incurs a performance hit every time it switches mode in either direction, and if you are multitasking between a PPC and a 68K app, you can incur that penalty several every single instruction if you're unlucky.
basically.... no:)
The emulation is completely handled in software, via some trick trap magic... its actually very cool:)
BUT it is not done in hardware
The PPC does have a way of switching its endianes, and the G3 has endian specific instructions to help with handling other-endian data (or is it just little endian?:))
If Mach had been covered by GPL, NeXT wouldn't have used it.
Its really quite simple
You're probably forgetting that the guy who wrote Mach was also the lead software engineer guy (or something) at NeXT and is now the software guru at Apple too
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Maybe its because the web department got fired the other day ;)
How about "Classic"
;)
they've used that one a couple of times
If you want a real step backwards...
it has only *TWO* 3.5" drive bays
interesting
I think most peoples reasons for it not being a hacker are that they don't believe a hacker would have that much style, finesse and wit ;)
It was ATI.
What they did was remove all mention of ATI from the keynote/introduction speech. Blackout all mentions of ATI on the literature, remove ATI from the booths etc.
Basically, they just completely ignored the graphics card.
Which is strange considering it was such an amazing graphics card at the time... easily one of the key features of the machine...
Then the conspiracy theories start... more or less immediately apple started migrating to NVidia... I believe they have almost completely migrated in the base configs now.
I've spoken to a highlevel executive in Telstra BigPond over dinner before, and they really do believe in the $1000 pen approach
:(
Ie, they'd rather gouge the market for 500$ from desperate people who MUST have the broadband, than get the $50 from everyone
Sad, but true
PPC processors have a 68K compatibility mode. Basically, the instructions can have a 68K flag that tells the processor to execute as such. The problem is that 68K code and PPC code aren't even remotely related to one another, and the processor executes 68K code much more slowly. The processor incurs a performance hit every time it switches mode in either direction, and if you are multitasking between a PPC and a 68K app, you can incur that penalty several every single instruction if you're unlucky.
:)
:)
:))
basically.... no
The emulation is completely handled in software, via some trick trap magic... its actually very cool
BUT it is not done in hardware
The PPC does have a way of switching its endianes, and the G3 has endian specific instructions to help with handling other-endian data (or is it just little endian?
Anywho, point is, that's not used for 68k emu
That'd be a G4 wouldn't it ;)
:(
Actually, it'd be a fairly cool thing... most people don't need the DP fpu performance of a G4...
but the lack AltiVec unit is definately something which makes people regreat their iBook purchases, once they get into their new OS a bit more
Some of the extremely powerful explicitly parallel computers ran fairly slow processors, clockwise
:)
What would happen if they ran them anti-clockwise?
very interesting demonstration of this nifty utility in use
t ml
:)
http://homepage.mac.com/rtouris/iMovieTheater38.h
This is the first truly cool thing I've seen with BlueTooth
You set the cross-fade to 0 seconds and you get a seamless switch-over
That's because the iApps use broken logical operators.
:(
:(
*all* AND
OR
*all* OR
Its broken,
Mail.app has the same problem.
sucks
I had to construct a smart playlist of various goa groups... and eventually ran out of screen space
The super elite actually just login as root
Then the matter-compiler manufacturers would just control the show ;)
That's funny...
;)
I heard that he categorically said "no tabs"
If Mach had been covered by GPL, NeXT wouldn't have used it.
Its really quite simple
You're probably forgetting that the guy who wrote Mach was also the lead software engineer guy (or something) at NeXT and is now the software guru at Apple too
FireCat ;)
;)
hehe, just just PhoneNet for LocalTalk cabling
The FW topology is limited to 64 devices...
;)
;)
I don't think you're going to see large FW LANs
BUT then again, this is IP... just have one machinbe with two fw cards too bridge the subnets
The big problem is FW cables are relatively expensive.
:(
;)
I buy ethernet by the 100m roll... and 50 crimps at a time...
the price of an ethernet cable (after my time, damnit) is literally a few dollars.
I've always ended up paying 10x that for FW cables
And long ones are even more expensive
Unless its a modern mac ;)
Modern macs just don't care
damnit.
keep the spoilers to yourself.
That was damn funny :)
edit menu, add bcc header
;)
stumped me for a bit until a colleague pointed out where it had moved too
They're a form of SCSI.
;)
SCSI is a protocol, it just so happens that you're thinking of an older version of SCSI which had a specific physical cabling.
FireWire is book E of the SCSI spec... or something... look it up
FireWire is a form of serial scsi