IIRC, wasn't there some hoopla a couple months back that BE was using LILO? Engineering geek says "The BEos is booted up by the Linux Loader" and marketdroid interprets as "BE/Linux hybrid"
I had a much better version of the article, but here are the highpoints:
*250Mhz processors with bus running at 125Mhz
* with compiler optimizations will deliver 500 Dhrystone Mips
* three processing units which work in relative independence, linked by internal 128-bit buses to deliver estimated performance of 5 Gflops or 30 million polygons/second with lighting and fog features enabled.
* effective bus bandwidth of 1.7 Gbytes/second and supports two Direct Rambus channels
* implements all the MIPS III and most MIPS IV instructions in addition to 107 new SIMD multimedia instructions such as parallel add/subtract, multiply/divide and min/max operations. Toshiba and Sony are not disclosing details on 17 of the new instructions
* Includes hardware support for Bezier curves in 3D (stuff used by Carmak for cool shapes) and DVD playback
* Many details of the system are still unclear-including a graphics chip designed by Sony that is said to contain as many as 20 million transistors
From memory, this is supposed to be able to support HDTV-resolutions and the API's/hardware will be optimized with this as the max number of pixels to deal with.
All said and done, this thing has the potential to outperform even a Voodoo3. Given the general quality/optimization of currently playstation API's and code, programmers will be able to make games with almost DVD-quality. I'm routinely stunned by the quality squeezed out of the measly 33Mhz R3k.
Since I don't own a DVD player, I'll pay $500 for one of these things. I want it. Bad.
C'mon folks, you're doing what linux geeks world wide are accused of: seeing someone having trouble and then poking fun because they don't know what's wrong. Let's show a little class.
So far Jon's writing in his spare time, on a project he's undertaken at readers' (Re: us) requests that's turned into a fiasco he's funding out of his own pocket. Wouldn't you want to rant and rave about the grief you suffered before you even got to start the real job?
He's an admitted Mac guy and you're surprised when he's not familiar with the inside of his PC. I've seen MCSE's who couldn't figure out how to put a harddrive in a PC. You don't HAVE to know hardware to know software. (But you're right, it does help.)
Next, he takes it to CompUSA. Why? So he can run Linux RIGHT NOW! Anybody willing to spend that kind of cash (and knows their spending it) deserves a little support so he doesn't bail. And yeah, $173 to replace a case is a bit steep, but I figure $85 for the case, $25-$35/hr for the tech and about 3 hours of time to move and test each piece of hardware; testing being the time consuming part.
Now, let's play nice with Jon in the future and maybe we can prevent a blurb in his final article stating "The linux community mocked and ridiculed my every effort and should be treated as raving lunatics."
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IIRC, wasn't there some hoopla a couple months back that BE was using LILO? Engineering geek says "The BEos is booted up by the Linux Loader" and marketdroid interprets as "BE/Linux hybrid"
You got to use a knife, it's a handy little
weapon when you want to take a life.
"just hack'n slash!"
(I had to do that too)
http://www.eetimes.com/story/industry/semiconducto r_news/OEG19990219S0002
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story
I had a much better version of the article, but here are the highpoints:
*250Mhz processors with bus running at 125Mhz
* with compiler optimizations will deliver 500 Dhrystone Mips
* three processing units which work in relative independence, linked by internal 128-bit buses to
deliver estimated performance of 5 Gflops or 30 million polygons/second with lighting and fog features enabled.
* effective bus bandwidth of 1.7 Gbytes/second and supports two Direct Rambus channels
* implements all the MIPS III and most MIPS IV instructions in addition to 107 new SIMD multimedia instructions such as parallel add/subtract, multiply/divide and min/max operations. Toshiba and Sony are not disclosing details on 17 of the new instructions
* Includes hardware support for Bezier curves in 3D (stuff used by Carmak for cool shapes) and DVD playback
* Many details of the system are still unclear-including a graphics chip designed by Sony that is said to contain as many as 20 million transistors
From memory, this is supposed to be able to support HDTV-resolutions and the API's/hardware will be optimized with this as the max number of pixels to deal with.
All said and done, this thing has the potential to outperform even a Voodoo3. Given the general quality/optimization of currently playstation API's and code, programmers will be able to make games with almost DVD-quality. I'm routinely stunned by the quality squeezed out of the measly 33Mhz R3k.
Since I don't own a DVD player, I'll pay $500 for one of these things. I want it. Bad.
So far Jon's writing in his spare time, on a project he's undertaken at readers' (Re: us) requests that's turned into a fiasco he's funding out of his own pocket. Wouldn't you want to rant and rave about the grief you suffered before you even got to start the real job?
He's an admitted Mac guy and you're surprised when he's not familiar with the inside of his PC. I've seen MCSE's who couldn't figure out how to put a harddrive in a PC. You don't HAVE to know hardware to know software. (But you're right, it does help.)
Next, he takes it to CompUSA. Why? So he can run Linux RIGHT NOW! Anybody willing to spend that kind of cash (and knows their spending it) deserves a little support so he doesn't bail. And yeah, $173 to replace a case is a bit steep, but I figure $85 for the case, $25-$35/hr for the tech and about 3 hours of time to move and test each piece of hardware; testing being the time consuming part.
Now, let's play nice with Jon in the future and maybe we can prevent a blurb in his final article stating "The linux community mocked and ridiculed my every effort and should be treated as raving lunatics."