Well as raport states, there were two standard PC's running on debian. Well what it means? It means that bottleneck should be on those two machines. As atleast I don't think that 64bit/66MHz PCI bus is standard on PC world... well... and there are limitations about 300/400Mbit on standard 32bit/33MHz PCI bus, as i remember. Also i think that data used for benchmark was random seed, not from CD or hardisk, becose CD's and HDD's of standard PC are much slower...
7200rpm ATA100 drive may get that kind of speeds only from cache, not from disk.. well.. and you just don't have 650MB cache on your el cheapo IDE drive:)
Unix for 68k? NetBSD;) Just some porting needs to be done for your own firmware... And offcourse, as you probably will use only serial terminal as input/output... Well on another thought you will need some ROM to store NetBSD on... and... you know... hobby machines have never been and never will be heavy-artillery in desktop market... or smth..
Well in modern science there are two different worlds, physical world and mathematical world. for example in physical world two infinite lines can be parallel only if they don't cross, this is based on gemetry system discovered by Eukleides in about 300 BC (BC - years Before Christ ( Christ was dude who decided to die for no reason in some strange mythology), and BC does not mean before computers;)) Well, back to the geometry. some people like Nikolai Lobotchevski and Janos Bolyai have created their own geometry systems compleatly different from the one that Eukleides discovered. But those other geometries (like infinite lines) exist only on mathematical world. Another example is that you can create 789 dimensional world with mathematics, but you can sense only 4 dimensions in real world (width, depth, height and time). And to the point: Pi, e, and sqrt(2) are purely mathematical constants, irrational (endless) ones.
btw, if some creek philosofers discovered irrational numbers, they kept it secret becouse they thought that it would destroy whole world of modern mathematics (modern at that time)
Well it's a point where VSync comes in. It will not let your maximum framerate be higher then vertical refresh rate, so it will keep GPU littlebit cooler, etc.
what a surprise, but movies at cinema are running only about 24 FPS and do you really see flickering there? (ok, on fast scenes you will, but about 70-80 FPS is limit where the eye cant see flickering) so, there's no point to get your FPS rates higher. And certanly there is no point to get FPS higher then refresh rates, as other rendered scenes will be withdrawn. Better increase your picture quality and use VSync!:)
The truth is, that even on "leading desktop OS" called with a name that reminds sheet of glass between frame, has not UDMA/66 and higher mode turned on by default.
Problem is, that it breaks compatibility with older hardware... eg. you will put an old harddisk on your comp. and it will "blow up" becouse your fancy OS will think it can take faster transfer speeds... etc.
Hmm.. what about default CD autoplay on some other major os provider major os (not telling names that are starting with microso...)? and autoplay on harddrives...
No, OS X for i386 is possible.. btw, they have done quite lot for getting Darwin run on x86, now current snapshot even supports VIA chipsets now... But intel and amd, well, it would be like Microsoft Office for Linux..:P
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And as it probably ran over fibre, not copper wires...:P
Well as raport states, there were two standard PC's running on debian. Well what it means? It means that bottleneck should be on those two machines. As atleast I don't think that 64bit/66MHz PCI bus is standard on PC world... well... and there are limitations about 300/400Mbit on standard 32bit/33MHz PCI bus, as i remember. Also i think that data used for benchmark was random seed, not from CD or hardisk, becose CD's and HDD's of standard PC are much slower...
7200rpm ATA100 drive may get that kind of speeds only from cache, not from disk.. well.. and you just don't have 650MB cache on your el cheapo IDE drive :)
as i remember it is natively on IPv6...
Take a notice, that Internet2 project is right now only for universities and big companys... And right now - for testing pourpourses only...
(sorry for my bad english)
Unix for 68k? NetBSD ;) Just some porting needs to be done for your own firmware... And offcourse, as you probably will use only serial terminal as input/output... Well on another thought you will need some ROM to store NetBSD on... and... you know... hobby machines have never been and never will be heavy-artillery in desktop market... or smth..
Well in modern science there are two different worlds, physical world and mathematical world. for example in physical world two infinite lines can be parallel only if they don't cross, this is based on gemetry system discovered by Eukleides in about 300 BC (BC - years Before Christ ( Christ was dude who decided to die for no reason in some strange mythology), and BC does not mean before computers ;)) Well, back to the geometry. some people like Nikolai Lobotchevski and Janos Bolyai have created their own geometry systems compleatly different from the one that Eukleides discovered. But those other geometries (like infinite lines) exist only on mathematical world. Another example is that you can create 789 dimensional world with mathematics, but you can sense only 4 dimensions in real world (width, depth, height and time). And to the point: Pi, e, and sqrt(2) are purely mathematical constants, irrational (endless) ones.
btw, if some creek philosofers discovered irrational numbers, they kept it secret becouse they thought that it would destroy whole world of modern mathematics (modern at that time)
Well it's a point where VSync comes in. It will not let your maximum framerate be higher then vertical refresh rate, so it will keep GPU littlebit cooler, etc.
what a surprise, but movies at cinema are running only about 24 FPS and do you really see flickering there? (ok, on fast scenes you will, but about 70-80 FPS is limit where the eye cant see flickering) so, there's no point to get your FPS rates higher. And certanly there is no point to get FPS higher then refresh rates, as other rendered scenes will be withdrawn. Better increase your picture quality and use VSync! :)
For what are you using your system? If it's just another gaming PC then ECC isn't worth it.
Rules :)
How many CD's have you burned in your microwave oven? And have you build your own Tesla trafo? If not, then give them a try also...
The truth is, that even on "leading desktop OS" called with a name that reminds sheet of glass between frame, has not UDMA/66 and higher mode turned on by default.
Problem is, that it breaks compatibility with older hardware... eg. you will put an old harddisk on your comp. and it will "blow up" becouse your fancy OS will think it can take faster transfer speeds... etc.
Hmm.. what about default CD autoplay on some other major os provider major os (not telling names that are starting with microso...)? and autoplay on harddrives...
(well, yes and what about them?)
First post? So What?
They talk about LED's, not fibre. Talk is about IR-emiting plastics.. Fibre cable will still be same glassfibre...
Seems like some days old news and btw, next version of OBSD (OpenBSD, not BSOD:P) is 3.1, not 3.0.1 ;)
No, OS X for i386 is possible.. btw, they have done quite lot for getting Darwin run on x86, now current snapshot even supports VIA chipsets now... :P
;)
But intel and amd, well, it would be like Microsoft Office for Linux..
and btw, OpenBSD rules
Alcohol ;) :P
Who wants to run windows anyway? But even if, what about Alpha?
What about digityal signal processors? It would be lot faster...