If you hadn't noticed Apple is going to IBM for most of their new CPUs.
And IBM has a lot more to offer/Sell than intel products (surely they'd rather sell POWER based anything) and all they are missing is a desktop product... like OS X (the best one out).
What I've been wondering is why not just make it a PCI-X card that goes into a current Power-Mac?
If I recall correctly, Sony Playstation 2 workstation (the one with the emotion engine) was over 15,000 USD. That puts it well beyond the "that would be interesting" price range and most likely beyond the aspiring game producer just out of college types.
Where, I would hope, a PCI-X based card could probably be priced much lower.
Now that I've said all of that, the old workstation would make an interesting addition to my collection...
This has struck me as possibly being more like the VIA Padlock feature: Specialized hardware which requires specialized software to function. When the two are present & functioning it does the job much faster than the general CPU would have. However is you were running an alternate OS without the software support, that part of the chip doesn't really get used.
Remember... Most IP owners are concentrating on the Windows owners of the world. What really hacks them off is that a windows user can violate their copyright and essentially all they need to be able to do is double click and correctly spell the name of the material in a search box.
"I've always thought Alphas were some of the cooler architectures out there"... We used to have a dual Alpha at work, I remember the heatsinks being about the size of my head and the fans sounding like jet engines!
Still it is a very intersting architecture and it sounds like you have one for the same reason I have my Cobalt Qube 2.
Isn't this a variation of the principles behind the Farnsworth Fuser. I'm not a nuclear physicist and I just recently became interested in this topic so I'm not really at the top of the game.
By the way, there isn't a Wikipedia entry on "Aneutronics" so if you are at least conversationally literate on the topic why don't you add one?
Indeed, the Google German -> English translator does amusing things when confronted with the local dialect of Steiermark (where I live). But you're fine until you start speaking or writing English that sounds like the Google translation
Actually I can't believe I just went though all of that, just to RTFA. And it wasn't all that good. All R&D goes through good times & bad times. All PHBs make some stupid calls. BIG DEAL?
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And IBM has a lot more to offer/Sell than intel products (surely they'd rather sell POWER based anything) and all they are missing is a desktop product... like OS X (the best one out).
Don't forget Cell & BlueGene/L!
.... I need more wodka
Why do you feel this way?
If I recall correctly, Sony Playstation 2 workstation (the one with the emotion engine) was over 15,000 USD. That puts it well beyond the "that would be interesting" price range and most likely beyond the aspiring game producer just out of college types.
Where, I would hope, a PCI-X based card could probably be priced much lower.
Now that I've said all of that, the old workstation would make an interesting addition to my collection...
Remember... Most IP owners are concentrating on the Windows owners of the world. What really hacks them off is that a windows user can violate their copyright and essentially all they need to be able to do is double click and correctly spell the name of the material in a search box.
Still it is a very intersting architecture and it sounds like you have one for the same reason I have my Cobalt Qube 2.
i.e. not more than 500 USD not 1000~1500 they are asking for the reference platform.
This is soooo morally wrong and on so many levels. Now I need to go shower off this filthy idea of QBasic.
I think his point was wOz != WEP
Man, the guy that cooked that up must be the "pusher"!
Can you send me the several liters of LSD it would require to think this thing works? Then I'd be glad to build one and test it out.
YES!
but nothing like the "Waffle House" (America is a strange and wonderful place)
By the way, there isn't a Wikipedia entry on "Aneutronics" so if you are at least conversationally literate on the topic why don't you add one?
Sudenly I am reminded of the phrase "Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Indeed, the Google German -> English translator does amusing things when confronted with the local dialect of Steiermark (where I live). But you're fine until you start speaking or writing English that sounds like the Google translation
Profit!!!
Or maybe ASCII Starwars & Matrix movies... Oh wait...
Man I am sooooo offended there is more hair on my toes than on my (or Jobs') head!
as a Cobalt Qube2 user let me say....WHOOT!
That's OK I've been centrifuing ring-tetrachloride for enrichment for years.
Sorry Man, I'm a devoted Mac OS X user now. Well that and NetBSD on my cube, and SuSE on my x86 laptop
Do I get to be the mayor or steward or what? Is a throne room included in the package or do I have to have that built?
What about the existing nobles and their families... are they put to the sword?
you must be using BeOS or Haiku :)
Actually I can't believe I just went though all of that, just to RTFA. And it wasn't all that good. All R&D goes through good times & bad times. All PHBs make some stupid calls. BIG DEAL?