He (like most people I know) are refering to all of the x86 compatible chips when he says Intel. He's trying to say that you can't run it from a Mac, or a Sun/VMS/Alpha/ETC processor. Same thing when people talk about unix or Unix(TM). unix refers to BSD/Linux/Solaris/ETC operating systems, where as Unix(TM) refers to the Unix brand name.
I don't know about you, but I would be pissed if I had to say "Required: Intel 386SX/16 or higher compatible processor with Intel 100j chipset (Recommended: Intel 586(Pentium II)/500 or higher compatible processor with Intel 802i chipset)" I refer to Intel as the whole compatible family (AMD, Cyrix, etc). Unless I am refering to specific chipset system calls, and assembly language calls, I just say intel, or pentium, etc.
It's not that big of a mistake, and it's a good article, read the rest of it. The guy knows what he is talking about. (my numbers for the chipset and processor types were pulled out of my ass, it was used to show the point, not to be technicaly correct)
The reason why you have to run Win98 is cause the hardware/software required for the satilite link is very propriatary. They won't even sell you the board, it has to be installed at the factory, so that is why you have to buy a new computer when you get it. I worked for RadioShack (TheMan) when they were telling the associates how to sell it. (I thought it was evil and I told my supervisor that, but then, I hated selling the MSN, or the computers (thank you, but I like having a soul))
As far as reverse-enginering the satilite dish, good luck, but it's pretty screwy as I remember. It's done by Microsoft(TheMan), so I'm guessing that it would be next-to-impossible (not a taunt, just an edu-ma-cated guess) to figure out how to get it to work. Authentication would be rather difficult, as it would be hardwired into the software (this is conjecture)
FYI: Linus now lives in Santa Clara, California working for Transmeta. He moved here about a year or so ago. (However he did come from Finland, and did most of the work from there)
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He (like most people I know) are refering to all of the x86 compatible chips when he says Intel. He's trying to say that you can't run it from a Mac, or a Sun/VMS/Alpha/ETC processor. Same thing when people talk about unix or Unix(TM). unix refers to BSD/Linux/Solaris/ETC operating systems, where as Unix(TM) refers to the Unix brand name.
I don't know about you, but I would be pissed if I had to say "Required: Intel 386SX/16 or higher compatible processor with Intel 100j chipset (Recommended: Intel 586(Pentium II)/500 or higher compatible processor with Intel 802i chipset)" I refer to Intel as the whole compatible family (AMD, Cyrix, etc). Unless I am refering to specific chipset system calls, and assembly language calls, I just say intel, or pentium, etc.
It's not that big of a mistake, and it's a good article, read the rest of it. The guy knows what he is talking about. (my numbers for the chipset and processor types were pulled out of my ass, it was used to show the point, not to be technicaly correct)
-Peter Hessler
The reason why you have to run Win98 is cause the hardware/software required for the satilite link is very propriatary. They won't even sell you the board, it has to be installed at the factory, so that is why you have to buy a new computer when you get it. I worked for RadioShack (TheMan) when they were telling the associates how to sell it. (I thought it was evil and I told my supervisor that, but then, I hated selling the MSN, or the computers (thank you, but I like having a soul))
As far as reverse-enginering the satilite dish, good luck, but it's pretty screwy as I remember. It's done by Microsoft(TheMan), so I'm guessing that it would be next-to-impossible (not a taunt, just an edu-ma-cated guess) to figure out how to get it to work. Authentication would be rather difficult, as it would be hardwired into the software (this is conjecture)
-Peter Hessler
I got higher. I got a .88 (Have you been drinking?)
-Peter Hessler
FYI: Linus now lives in Santa Clara, California working for Transmeta. He moved here about a year or so ago. (However he did come from Finland, and did most of the work from there)
-Peter Hessler