I think that is correct, but it doesn't mean that someone couldn't make a firewire-native HD. You would just have to put a different controller board on it. It would be more expensive than an IDE drive, just because the controller would have to be "smarter".
Yep, that's right. Firewire is a lot like SCSI in the way it works (main differences are larger address size, more flexible topology, and serial instead of parallel) so the complexity (and hence the price, ignoring the effects of supply/demand) would probably be similar to SCSI. More expensive than ATA because the board has to be "smarter" like SCSI.
I agree, it may not be intuitive but when you're used it, it sorta makes sense.
But for everyone else, I really don't think it's that hard to right-click (control-click if you use the mouse that comes with the machine) and choose "eject" or just go up to the file menu and choose eject...
The people who complain about it probably haven't ever used it.
you want an UltraSparc Enterprise machine. They're great.
At school I work on an UltraSparc Enterprise 3000 upgraded to six 336 MHz UltraSparcs and 1.5 GB of RAM. Oh yeah, about a hundred other people are typically logged in at the same time, and the machine is usually at over 50% idle... unless someone has a runaway netscape. Netscape sometimes dies in weird ways where it locks up a CPU and won't let go until you kill -9 it.
of course, looking at those 64 CPU Enterprise 10000 Starfires.. the machine I'm using looks pretty wimpy next to those.
Seriously, though, it's hard to beat Sun at the really high end. Solaris can be pretty slow on those low end systems, but it scales really well. With four or more CPUs it's pretty nice. Obviously Linux is better for single CPU x86 boxes, but Solaris scales a heck of a lot better and when you have a number of fast CPUs, Solaris is much better at distributing that processing power.
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I think that is correct, but it doesn't mean that someone couldn't make a firewire-native HD. You would just have to put a different controller board on it. It would be more expensive than an IDE drive, just because the controller would have to be "smarter".
Yep, that's right. Firewire is a lot like SCSI in the way it works (main differences are larger address size, more flexible topology, and serial instead of parallel) so the complexity (and hence the price, ignoring the effects of supply/demand) would probably be similar to SCSI. More expensive than ATA because the board has to be "smarter" like SCSI.
Keep in mind that monopolies are not illegal in the United States.
Abuse of monopolies is illegal.
I agree, it may not be intuitive but when you're used it, it sorta makes sense. But for everyone else, I really don't think it's that hard to right-click (control-click if you use the mouse that comes with the machine) and choose "eject" or just go up to the file menu and choose eject... The people who complain about it probably haven't ever used it.
MAC = Media Access Controller a MAC address is simply your address on the ethernet.
See a copy of ProDOS 8 technical note #28 here.
It contains the following:
The best part of this technote is Apple's advice for 2039...
no, you don't want one of those UltraSparc 5s..
you want an UltraSparc Enterprise machine. They're great.
At school I work on an UltraSparc Enterprise 3000 upgraded to six 336 MHz UltraSparcs and 1.5 GB of RAM. Oh yeah, about a hundred other people are typically logged in at the same time, and the machine is usually at over 50% idle... unless someone has a runaway netscape. Netscape sometimes dies in weird ways where it locks up a CPU and won't let go until you kill -9 it.
of course, looking at those 64 CPU Enterprise 10000 Starfires.. the machine I'm using looks pretty wimpy next to those.
Seriously, though, it's hard to beat Sun at the really high end. Solaris can be pretty slow on those low end systems, but it scales really well. With four or more CPUs it's pretty nice. Obviously Linux is better for single CPU x86 boxes, but Solaris scales a heck of a lot better and when you have a number of fast CPUs, Solaris is much better at distributing that processing power.