The Business, an Iain Banks rather than an Iain M. Banks, is his latest book; i.e. a fiction rather than science-fiction though that could be considered a blurry boundary. Currently he is writing a new "straight" Culture book, to be published IIRC in August in Britain. alt.books.iain-banks is a good place to keep up to date with his pubishing exploits. The Business unfortunately is a bit on the light side as well when compared against his other books, of course poor IB/IMB is better than an awful lot of other authors output; it is still a most enjoyable book, a page-turner really. http://amazon.co.uk will have it. andy
It was down about 7% or 8% first thing, and has been climbing steadily since then, with blips to about -5%, currently it is -2.875 (-3.14%). I've been enjoying watching it side-by-side with Be, who have been up to +103 %, Go Be:-) As to why it has made little difference, well, as some of the comments have been saying, "It doesn't really change anything" - which I guess will remain true until the final judgement appears.
Especially since, according to all reports, by the time Merced is finally released (Q2 next year? Q3??), the Alpha's going to be walloping it. By the middle of next year, the roadmaps I've seen have the 21264's hitting well over a GHz...I think I've even seen 1.4 tossed around (but it was prolly at The Register, so, grain of salt).
At the MS TechEd 99 in Amsterdam there was a Compaq seminar on Alpha Technology where the roadmap they showed (thomas.siebold@compaq.com) was as follows 1099/2000 EV68,.18 um, 600-1000 MHz, 15M transistors 2001 EV7,.18 um, 600-1000 MHz, 100+M transistors 2002 EV8,.13 um, 1200+ MHz, 250M transistors
The initial EV68 has already taped out, and the EV67 "with.18-micron transistors" runs at 800-1000MHz with "real" EV68's in Q3, systems Q1'00.
All this is taken from their seminar notes.
hth, andy
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I'll take the risk of being wrong:-) 18 petabytes is the current maximum for BFS.
This essentially is the same as most deadheads have always considered the etiquette of trading to be (whatever the medium) - and that is making no personal profit out of it, or covering costs other than the blanks and postage. If I went out and got a Nak dragon tomorrow for tape dubbing, I can't recoup costs through GD trading. I wonder though, is it permissable to have banners elsewhere on the site, just not on the download pages?
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The Business, an Iain Banks rather than an Iain M. Banks, is his latest book; i.e. a fiction rather than science-fiction though that could be considered a blurry boundary. Currently he is writing a new "straight" Culture book, to be published IIRC in August in Britain. alt.books.iain-banks is a good place to keep up to date with his pubishing exploits. The Business unfortunately is a bit on the light side as well when compared against his other books, of course poor IB/IMB is better than an awful lot of other authors output; it is still a most enjoyable book, a page-turner really. http://amazon.co.uk will have it. andy
It was down about 7% or 8% first thing, and has been climbing steadily since then, with blips to about -5%, currently it is -2.875 (-3.14%). I've been enjoying watching it side-by-side with Be, who have been up to +103 %, Go Be :-)
As to why it has made little difference, well, as some of the comments have been saying, "It doesn't really change anything" - which I guess will remain true until the final judgement appears.
andy
Especially since, according to all reports, by the time Merced is finally released (Q2 next year? Q3??), the Alpha's going to be walloping it. By the middle of next year, the roadmaps I've seen have the 21264's hitting well over a GHz...I think I've even seen 1.4 tossed around (but it was prolly at The Register, so, grain of salt).
.18 um, 600-1000 MHz, 15M transistors .18 um, 600-1000 MHz, 100+M transistors .13 um, 1200+ MHz, 250M transistors
.18-micron transistors" runs at 800-1000MHz with "real" EV68's in Q3, systems Q1'00.
At the MS TechEd 99 in Amsterdam there was a Compaq seminar on Alpha Technology where the roadmap they showed (thomas.siebold@compaq.com) was as follows
1099/2000 EV68,
2001 EV7,
2002 EV8,
The initial EV68 has already taped out, and the EV67 "with
All this is taken from their seminar notes.
hth,
andy
I'll take the risk of being wrong :-)
18 petabytes is the current maximum for BFS.
Roll on Genki...
This essentially is the same as most deadheads have always considered the etiquette of trading to be (whatever the medium) - and that is making no personal profit out of it, or covering costs other than the blanks and postage.
If I went out and got a Nak dragon tomorrow for tape dubbing, I can't recoup costs through GD trading.
I wonder though, is it permissable to have banners elsewhere on the site, just not on the download pages?
Andy