The problem is that VPC uses emulation modes in the hardware to run x86 code at close-to-native speeds, bochs is entirely software emulation.
Now before you respond and say, "You're screwball! VPC is nowhere near native speed!", you should note that the biggest bottleneck in VPC isn't the CPU, isn't the memory, it's not even the hard disk emulation. It's the graphics. Graphics speed in VPC is terrible, and we all know that what we really respond to is "perceived" speed, and graphics speed is probably the #1 element of perceived speed.
Therefore, the best thing MS could do for VPC is to port windows' GFX code to native PPC, complete with AltiVec enhancements. For even better speed, they could just port XP itself to Mac OS X as a VM environment where all XP code would be native and only user apps would run in x86 emulation.
Whether or not they do this is a big fat question mark. If they do, they run the risk of pushing on the fencers right into switcher-land. If they don't, everyone will get PO'd and say "Why the hey didn't you do that?"
Dude, there hasn't been a $10k mac since the early 90's or something. Get a grip.
Apple's not the smartest company, but they aren't going to try and sell $10,000 computers to people. I believe they tried something like that with the 20th anniversary mac.
I dunno, Apple's been dropping prices a lot lately. PowerMacs are at all-time low prices.
It's almost time for a menards-style commercial "We've got eMacs starting under one thousand dollars, 12 inch powerbooks for only $1,799. Come in today and get a free copy of iLife!"
I think they should either kill the old CRT iMac or drop the price big time.
Yeah, why not drop pigs on islamic terrorist camps? They can't stand pigs. I would love to see that, a pig dropping from normal bombing height, splitting open and splattering a bunch of terrorists.... Imagine the "squeals" of terror(ists)! Ahahahaha!
Of course the animal rights people wouldn't like that.
I'm a member of PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals.
Americans (and others) have been making gas from all kinds of foods for years. In fact I made some gas from my lunch today. Unfortunately I was unable to capture it for use as fuel.
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Don't worry; soon enough somebody will make a porn search engine. Maybe they'll call it "Poogle".
And they'll come and lock you up until you're about 65.
(if you don't get it... oh never mind.)
The only problem with the trees in the book was that sometimes toilets would sprout in the middle of beds and digest people in their sleep.
And I was worried about bugs? Yikes.
Well yeah, but imagine a beowulf cluster of treehouses in soviet russia!
I'm not even drunk!
AAAGH! My rotting house is being smashed by a flaming elephant!
The day I get a cell phone is the day I'm given one for free.
So you're getting one next week?
Yeah, that's funny but isn't Kim mostly a korean name? (watch me get moderated either 0, Offtopic or +5, insightful)
2004AD - having a .sig reading "I'm a girl. See my naked parents in my slashdot journal (1,422+ freaks!)"
You might be right, considering eating (possibly) poisonous fish is an "extreme sport" over there.
Why don't you go read about what VMWare does, specifically? It doesn't provide CPU emulation. Duuuh.
RTFM. VPC hasn't supported this since version 4 (or was it 3?).
The problem is that VPC uses emulation modes in the hardware to run x86 code at close-to-native speeds, bochs is entirely software emulation.
Now before you respond and say, "You're screwball! VPC is nowhere near native speed!", you should note that the biggest bottleneck in VPC isn't the CPU, isn't the memory, it's not even the hard disk emulation. It's the graphics. Graphics speed in VPC is terrible, and we all know that what we really respond to is "perceived" speed, and graphics speed is probably the #1 element of perceived speed.
Therefore, the best thing MS could do for VPC is to port windows' GFX code to native PPC, complete with AltiVec enhancements. For even better speed, they could just port XP itself to Mac OS X as a VM environment where all XP code would be native and only user apps would run in x86 emulation.
Whether or not they do this is a big fat question mark. If they do, they run the risk of pushing on the fencers right into switcher-land. If they don't, everyone will get PO'd and say "Why the hey didn't you do that?"
Just my 2 cents.
Oh I dunno, she's kinda cute...
There's also a 16 bit version of Internet Explorer 5.0 if you search for it hard enough.
I believe you mean IE 3.
I thought that was Venus... Maybe they moved?
In soviet russia, the moon lands on YOU!
Wouldn't that cause extra wear on the drive?
I'm sorry, but that name sounds like IE will open goatse.cx on the first launch...
Dude, there hasn't been a $10k mac since the early 90's or something. Get a grip.
Apple's not the smartest company, but they aren't going to try and sell $10,000 computers to people. I believe they tried something like that with the 20th anniversary mac.
I dunno, Apple's been dropping prices a lot lately. PowerMacs are at all-time low prices.
It's almost time for a menards-style commercial "We've got eMacs starting under one thousand dollars, 12 inch powerbooks for only $1,799. Come in today and get a free copy of iLife!"
I think they should either kill the old CRT iMac or drop the price big time.
What's even MORE interesting is the fact that the title says "Motherboards ready for 2.5MHz?"
:-)
I'm not sure, but I think they were ready for that in the days of the Apple I.
Yeah, why not drop pigs on islamic terrorist camps? They can't stand pigs. I would love to see that, a pig dropping from normal bombing height, splitting open and splattering a bunch of terrorists.... Imagine the "squeals" of terror(ists)! Ahahahaha!
Of course the animal rights people wouldn't like that.
I'm a member of PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals.
Americans (and others) have been making gas from all kinds of foods for years. In fact I made some gas from my lunch today. Unfortunately I was unable to capture it for use as fuel.
That explains all the mail I've been getting that's addressed to "Bill G. Ates".
Wash them first!