The difference between the PPC ISA and the x86 ISA (Specifically the AMD64) is that the PPC ISA from the beginning was 64-bit, but with a - well - 32-bit extension.... remember that the PPC ISA is a proper subset of the Power ISA... it is rather astounding that the PPC has not become 64-bits sooner (Not including the 620)....
Vel National Semiconductor was the cause of the first breakup - even though VIA was the destroyer - but then again, I always suspected, from the first second that all VIA wanted was the trademark.
One little point that you might have misse - the C3 is not a Cyrix processor it has nothing to do with Cyrix. The VIA C3 is based on the IDT/Centaur Winchip - that has always been rather cool.
Well it is a large/heavy FreeBSD wrapper that has been used for wrapping in the Mach-kernel.
IMO Apple chose right when they decided not to go with the GNU system, even if they still would have used a Mach kernel - and got a a result some HURD look-a-like hybrid.
Without the Arqua i would just be Darwin, but IMO it would be a shame - then you could just as well use some sort of PPC Linux:o)
On the other hand they have changed the API's in such a way that 30% of todays applications is unable to run on W2K3 and on Longhorn todays applications is run via the Connectix virtual engine.
Quite right, Windows is CONTROL - it is the base on which everything else floats.
But if hell really does freeze over, then Redmond will go the.NOT way... they will not port the applications to Linux, they will port their proprietary.NOT framwork - that will allow them to keep most of the control.
Well you know - if Redmond says Enterprise and even prints it in the pretty little cardboardbox then it must be true. That Windows is totally unfit to be used outside an XBox cabinet is irrelevant.
I laughed out loud when they very enthustiatic talke about the wonderfull new wizards in the review - then I becane utterly depressed - now I think I will raid the fridge for cold beer!
you mean Redhat trash vs SuSE trash vs Redmond trash ??
AFAIR SCO's primary role in the UL konsortium has primarily been a search and destroy, they had little or nothing to to do with the actual UL base distribution.
Heise.de interviewed a former employee - who has a theory about it being SCO's own fault - that the code had been leaked in relation to the Monterey project.
The UniChrome MPEG2 decoder of the chipset is pure gold and I suspect that the Nehe... makes it possible to run AVI-video completely flawless, here the Ezra-T lacks a bit.
One thing I really would like is for VIA ti upgrade the Castlerock (AFAIR a refitted SavagePro) GFX to something with a bit more power - like the Xabre.
The user doesn't want an intuitive OO GUI, they want a skinnable GUI that sucks the life out of the machine and drives the uder nutz.... who cares - IT IS SKINNABLE!
Most operating systems has an REXX interpreter. It is widely used and is found in quite a few flavours, like NetREXX - that enables you to create applications in REXX and compile it to Java bytecode.
About the Amiga...well IBM traded the REXX for some of the AmigaOS GUI stuff.
IMO it is quite an interesting and rather flexible design, hardware and API-independent - the flexibility gives a performance penalty. But it is poorly implemented, not because of talentless programmers, but due to politics and marketing - thus extra performance penalties.
Parts of it has been rewritten and most of it with W2K, and I do not blieve that there's much of this flexibility left, the HAL has been reduced to minor hardware vendor optimizations/bugfixes.
Redmond has a long history of taking the quick road of performanceoptimization, all the way back to their OS/2 adventure - everything but the kitchen -sink has been moved into kernel mode - the next step will be moving the applications from user into kernel mode (Well what is left:o)
To sum it up : Interesting design, but the implementation has been messed up due to politics.
It still is if you change parts of your hardware configuration. Any major changes and you're facing a reinstall... IMO it has been perfected for OEM licence use.......
Windows of today still isn't true PNP, any major change in hardware and you're facing a reinstall (With all its problems, like it trying to kill any competitive operating systems installed).
Actually the only OS, that I have seen, that is close on having a legit claim of being true PNP is BeOS.
Shadows (Thats what shortcuts has been called on OS/2 for decades....where it was introduced in 1992 with OS/2 2.0)...no - but the GUI isn't true OO either...
They are and they will! It has been delayed, that's why AMD has moved the release of the Athlon64...
But not having a Redmong server-OS for the K8 is bad (I really-really do not care myself, I think it is totally and completely useless) marketing-wise!
The minimum requirement today is an 486, AFAIR one 486 upcode is being used, otherwise it is 386 optimized. Some kernel-opdates fixes has been created to enable 486sx support.
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The difference between the PPC ISA and the x86 ISA (Specifically the AMD64) is that the PPC ISA from the beginning was 64-bit, but with a - well - 32-bit extension .... remember that the PPC ISA is a proper subset of the Power ISA ... it is rather astounding that the PPC has not become 64-bits sooner (Not including the 620)....
Intel wil introduce a low energy and low price version os Itanic, IMO to compete directly with Opteron 244.
Why is everybody calling the WinChip for Cyrix ??
Vel National Semiconductor was the cause of the first breakup - even though VIA was the destroyer - but then again, I always suspected, from the first second that all VIA wanted was the trademark.
One little point that you might have misse - the C3 is not a Cyrix processor it has nothing to do with Cyrix. The VIA C3 is based on the IDT/Centaur Winchip - that has always been rather cool.
Well it is a large/heavy FreeBSD wrapper that has been used for wrapping in the Mach-kernel.
:o)
IMO Apple chose right when they decided not to go with the GNU system, even if they still would have used a Mach kernel - and got a a result some HURD look-a-like hybrid.
Without the Arqua i would just be Darwin, but IMO it would be a shame - then you could just as well use some sort of PPC Linux
On the other hand they have changed the API's in such a way that 30% of todays applications is unable to run on W2K3 and on Longhorn todays applications is run via the Connectix virtual engine.
Quite right, Windows is CONTROL - it is the base on which everything else floats.
.NOT way ... they will not port the applications to Linux, they will port their proprietary .NOT framwork - that will allow them to keep most of the control.
But if hell really does freeze over, then Redmond will go the
Well you know - if Redmond says Enterprise and even prints it in the pretty little cardboardbox then it must be true. That Windows is totally unfit to be used outside an XBox cabinet is irrelevant.
I laughed out loud when they very enthustiatic talke about the wonderfull new wizards in the review - then I becane utterly depressed - now I think I will raid the fridge for cold beer!
you mean Redhat trash vs SuSE trash vs Redmond trash ??
AFAIR SCO's primary role in the UL konsortium has primarily been a search and destroy, they had little or nothing to to do with the actual UL base distribution.
And under Performance on page three there's a link to the W2K3 review!
Heise.de interviewed a former employee - who has a theory about it being SCO's own fault - that the code had been leaked in relation to the Monterey project.
The UniChrome MPEG2 decoder of the chipset is pure gold and I suspect that the Nehe... makes it possible to run AVI-video completely flawless, here the Ezra-T lacks a bit.
One thing I really would like is for VIA ti upgrade the Castlerock (AFAIR a refitted SavagePro) GFX to something with a bit more power - like the Xabre.
The user doesn't want an intuitive OO GUI, they want a skinnable GUI that sucks the life out of the machine and drives the uder nutz .... who cares - IT IS SKINNABLE!
Most operating systems has an REXX interpreter. It is widely used and is found in quite a few flavours, like NetREXX - that enables you to create applications in REXX and compile it to Java bytecode.
About the Amiga...well IBM traded the REXX for some of the AmigaOS GUI stuff.
IMO it is quite an interesting and rather flexible design, hardware and API-independent - the flexibility gives a performance penalty. But it is poorly implemented, not because of talentless programmers, but due to politics and marketing - thus extra performance penalties.
:o)
Parts of it has been rewritten and most of it with W2K, and I do not blieve that there's much of this flexibility left, the HAL has been reduced to minor hardware vendor optimizations/bugfixes.
Redmond has a long history of taking the quick road of performanceoptimization, all the way back to their OS/2 adventure - everything but the kitchen -sink has been moved into kernel mode - the next step will be moving the applications from user into kernel mode (Well what is left
To sum it up : Interesting design, but the implementation has been messed up due to politics.
A better word would be multiplatform!
Crossplatform ?? ...
It works on Linux, MacOS and Windy
It reminds me of the good ole : Yes ofcause it is crossplatform, it runs om both 98 and NT.
It still is if you change parts of your hardware configuration. Any major changes and you're facing a reinstall ... IMO it has been perfected for OEM licence use.......
Windows of today still isn't true PNP, any major change in hardware and you're facing a reinstall (With all its problems, like it trying to kill any competitive operating systems installed).
...
Actually the only OS, that I have seen, that is close on having a legit claim of being true PNP is BeOS.
Shadows (Thats what shortcuts has been called on OS/2 for decades....where it was introduced in 1992 with OS/2 2.0)...no - but the GUI isn't true OO either
They are and they will!
It has been delayed, that's why AMD has moved the release of the Athlon64...
But not having a Redmong server-OS for the K8 is bad (I really-really do not care myself, I think it is totally and completely useless) marketing-wise!
Hmmmm add wxWindows and you've got an easy portable GUI
1) Yes, the keyword is portability not performance.
2) I would guess so, but both Linux and FreeBSD has been announced as future goals
The minimum requirement today is an 486, AFAIR one 486 upcode is being used, otherwise it is 386 optimized.
Some kernel-opdates fixes has been created to enable 486sx support.
The Java2 JIT seems to be PII optimized.
Sorry to dissapoint you but the 4.5 SMP-kernel got support for upto 64 processors and is optimized for 8.