Hopefully they'll pull Transmeta OUT of the TCG... (Yes, Transmeta's actually in the TCG now. VIA's the only Pentium III-class or higher x86 manufacturer NOT in the TCG. STMicro's VEGA is supposedly a Pentium II-class chip. Below that, all you've got is 486-class chips.)
6th gear, primarily on the Indy car. Get up to ~230MPH (IIRC), and hit a jump. You're in 6th gear, going 245MPH, and locked on (as long as you stay on the gas).
Why wouldn't they announce it, though? They could spin it like IBM does for ESS 2.0... (which is "TCG-compliant" - which means that it does EVERYTHING that the Trusted Computing Group wants. If I had an IBM laptop with it, I'd bring out my soldering iron (it's a separate chip, unlike this technology would be)...
Luckily, the X21 that I'm getting doesn't have one... They didn't debut it until the X30 or X31, IIRC...
Hmm... it does some tracking (mainly to grab the captcha id, it seems). I'm a little too tired (insufficient caffeine, and up very late last night) to write a Python script to autosend it "captcha farm" on every one...
That'd be one hell of a script to run 24/7;-) It could even be customized to work on other farms, too...
Hmm... From what I've heard, they're pretty close to capacity as it is. How much of the market does Intel have (counting servers)? Some obscene number, I'm sure.
Looking at it that way, maybe they COULD make enough - which points back to Intel's x86 tech, or maybe their R&D department (which points to PPC).
Anyway, Apple's apparently satisfied with the chips they've gotten, just they can't get them clocked high enough, or enough of them. Intel might be able to do it, though, where IBM could not. So, if it's the PPC theory, it has nothing to do with the design of the chip. It has to do with getting high clocked chips, and getting a lot of them cheap.
Hmm... at the time, though, Apple had DEEP market penetration (thanks to VisiCalc on the II), right?
Word and Excel wouldn't have even been around if that were the case. IIRC, WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were both ported to Mac OS, so that wouldn't have been a problem.
However, if anything were to happen, it would have been in 1986, as the lack of MS wouldn't change anything (Woz was working on adding floating point to Integer, and had he completed it, well, Integer would have kicked ass compared to Applesoft). The IBM PC would still have done what it did, just on CP/M. OS/2 development may have been slowed down, though... but if it DID come out, it would have been more successful (then again, it'd have to compete with GEM... I'm about sick of thinking of the possibilities...)
Light Amplification... ahh, screw it. FD - floppy disk/drive, right? C - Umm, I thought it was just C! C++ - See above URL - Uniform Resource Locator HTML - HyperText Markup Language HTTP - HyperText Transport Protocol XML - eXtensible Markup Language VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language SGML - Silicon Graphics Modeling Language? SOAP - Simple Object... something... I know it uses XML... AOL - America OnLine COM - Component Object Model DCOM - Distributed COM? ADO - ActiveX Data Objects OLE - Object Linking and Exchange MOS - Metal Oxide Semiconductor CMOS - Complementary MOS FET... ??? CCD... DB - DataBase OLEDB - Object Linking and Exchange DB TTL - Time To Live ASP - Active Server Pages IIS - Internet Information Services BMP - BitMaP FAT - File Allocation Table DAT - DATa MIPS - Million(s of) Instructions Per Second FLOPS - Floating Point Operations Per Second TCP - Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol IP... you already got it IT - Information Technology KB... got it already. MB - MegaByte GB - GigaByte MAC - Media Access Control DOS... DDOS - Distributed Denial Of Service WOW - Windows On Windows NT - New Technology ME - Millenium Edition IE - Internet Explorer GNU - GNU's Not Unix CD - Compact Disc DVD - Digital (Video|Versatile) Disc CD-R - Compact Disc, Recordable CD-RW - Compact Disc, ReWritable DVD-R - DVD, Recordable DVD-RW - DVD, ReWritable HD - Hard Drive HT - HyperThreading CAD - Computer Aided Design DAC - Digital to Analog Converter AC - Alternating Current DC - Direct Current RAID - Redundant Array of (Inexpensive|Independent) Disks IO - Input/Output IOU - IO Unit?
When I was running 2000 on this laptop (yes, it came with an XP Pro license. I ran 2000 anyway), hibernate was a MAJOR tool in helping me dual-boot between Windows and Linux. I'd hibernate, then power up the lappy again, and go to Linux. Then, when I wanted back in Windows, it was as simple as a reboot into Windows, and it resumed from where I hibernated. I DISTINCTLY remember this.
Umm... you DO realize that the 6510 is a 6502 with a 6-bit I/O port added, and Commodore used it to aid bank switching, right? Seeing as all 65xx designs are derived from the 6502 (except for the 6502 itself, which is a lawsuit-friendly version of the 6501, which is a blatant ripoff of the m6800)
Apple pulled it off with a mere 6502. (Google Apple 80-column card for more info)
(This is just sad. I'm falling into the 8-bit wars...)
Microsoft, though, are they actually a huge rival? I mean, they've got a competing OS, but that's it. The XBox doesn't count as a computer, because it's sold as a console.
Microsoft and Apple have been partners since 1977, IIRC, and they most definitely WEREN'T enemies then... if it weren't for Apple, MS would have died in about 1978.
Ah, but AMD can't do the quantity that Apple needs.
Oh, and if they are going x86, the timing suggests that the Mac Mini 2 will use Yonah (IF it's x86...) There's huge technical reasons to do that. I still don't think that's the case, though - they never actually said x86.
I'm sure they're enabling the DRM - the Pentium D has it NOW, and Yonah will have it, so if they go x86, there WILL be the DRM.
One of two theories, here. Either they're using a P-M (makes sense, if they're going x86), which AMD can't quite touch, or Intel does not mean x86. It may mean Intel's got a PPC, or even Apple's going to ARM.
I've already speculated that they're SOMEHOW making a PPC, or maybe even, umm, scaling the XScale to run on desktops (after all, it's Acorn RISC Machine (sad that I know that, esp. considering I've never left the US))...
Totally unrelated side note: the designers of the ARM were inspired by the 6502. Something to chew on, if Apple switches to ARM - they'll go from 6502 to m68k to PPC to an arch loosely based on 6502 in thirty years exactly.
I'm thinking Apple has as much stake in this as IBM and Motor^WFreescale.
I know PowerPC is derived from IBM's POWER architecture, which may mean that IBM has control, though. Apple COULD have enough leverage to force IBM into letting Intel use it, but I doubt it.
I forget almost all of the details of the old AIM alliance, but here's what I remember (could be wrong, mind you):
Apple was to make systems around the processor. IBM was to design the processor (and chose a design based on their own POWER architecture for mainframes). THIS is why we could have problems - IBM may have only licensed stuff like this to Motorola. Motorola was to mass produce the shit out of the thing (IBM could, too, but Motorola wanted something to do). As we know, some models IBM made, some Motorola. HOPEFULLY, it's Intel in the future...
They're tying it into SP2's features from what I've heard. Last I checked, though, it's not illegal to use features that an update for a couple of OSes (XP and S2K3) offers, but no other OS offers.
Basically, they haven't tied it to the OS - they're just using an API that they've only made available for their latest OSes.
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Hopefully they'll pull Transmeta OUT of the TCG... (Yes, Transmeta's actually in the TCG now. VIA's the only Pentium III-class or higher x86 manufacturer NOT in the TCG. STMicro's VEGA is supposedly a Pentium II-class chip. Below that, all you've got is 486-class chips.)
Ah, Stunts...
6th gear, primarily on the Indy car. Get up to ~230MPH (IIRC), and hit a jump. You're in 6th gear, going 245MPH, and locked on (as long as you stay on the gas).
Jumping onto the top of tunnels was fun, too...
I can't believe I forgot DOS... I could have SWORN I put something there...
Why wouldn't they announce it, though? They could spin it like IBM does for ESS 2.0... (which is "TCG-compliant" - which means that it does EVERYTHING that the Trusted Computing Group wants. If I had an IBM laptop with it, I'd bring out my soldering iron (it's a separate chip, unlike this technology would be)...
Luckily, the X21 that I'm getting doesn't have one... They didn't debut it until the X30 or X31, IIRC...
Rhapsody DR2 doesn't count as Mac OS X (pre-alpha)?
Before I reformatted my HDD, I had an ISO (with the requisite floppy images) of it for x86...
Hmm... it does some tracking (mainly to grab the captcha id, it seems). I'm a little too tired (insufficient caffeine, and up very late last night) to write a Python script to autosend it "captcha farm" on every one...
;-) It could even be customized to work on other farms, too...
That'd be one hell of a script to run 24/7
Hmm... From what I've heard, they're pretty close to capacity as it is. How much of the market does Intel have (counting servers)? Some obscene number, I'm sure.
Looking at it that way, maybe they COULD make enough - which points back to Intel's x86 tech, or maybe their R&D department (which points to PPC).
Anyway, Apple's apparently satisfied with the chips they've gotten, just they can't get them clocked high enough, or enough of them. Intel might be able to do it, though, where IBM could not. So, if it's the PPC theory, it has nothing to do with the design of the chip. It has to do with getting high clocked chips, and getting a lot of them cheap.
Hmm... at the time, though, Apple had DEEP market penetration (thanks to VisiCalc on the II), right?
Word and Excel wouldn't have even been around if that were the case. IIRC, WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were both ported to Mac OS, so that wouldn't have been a problem.
However, if anything were to happen, it would have been in 1986, as the lack of MS wouldn't change anything (Woz was working on adding floating point to Integer, and had he completed it, well, Integer would have kicked ass compared to Applesoft). The IBM PC would still have done what it did, just on CP/M. OS/2 development may have been slowed down, though... but if it DID come out, it would have been more successful (then again, it'd have to compete with GEM... I'm about sick of thinking of the possibilities...)
FWIW, if you really want hibernation for Linux, here is the website for Software Suspend, a Linux kernel patch that adds hibernation.
;-)
So, somebody already took someone up on that challenge, and took care of it
Cell phones almost always use ARM, and routers usually use ARM. PDAs, except for a few ANCIENT ones, use ARM.
FWIW, cars usually use PowerPC if they've got a computer in there...
That's why I said the thing about XScale not scaling.
FWIW, though, that's the CURRENT XScale. This isn't going to be until mid-2006, IIRC.
Light Amplification... ahh, screw it.
FD - floppy disk/drive, right?
C - Umm, I thought it was just C!
C++ - See above
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
HTTP - HyperText Transport Protocol
XML - eXtensible Markup Language
VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language
SGML - Silicon Graphics Modeling Language?
SOAP - Simple Object... something... I know it uses XML...
AOL - America OnLine
COM - Component Object Model
DCOM - Distributed COM?
ADO - ActiveX Data Objects
OLE - Object Linking and Exchange
MOS - Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMOS - Complementary MOS
FET... ???
CCD...
DB - DataBase
OLEDB - Object Linking and Exchange DB
TTL - Time To Live
ASP - Active Server Pages
IIS - Internet Information Services
BMP - BitMaP
FAT - File Allocation Table
DAT - DATa
MIPS - Million(s of) Instructions Per Second
FLOPS - Floating Point Operations Per Second
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
IP... you already got it
IT - Information Technology
KB... got it already.
MB - MegaByte
GB - GigaByte
MAC - Media Access Control
DOS...
DDOS - Distributed Denial Of Service
WOW - Windows On Windows
NT - New Technology
ME - Millenium Edition
IE - Internet Explorer
GNU - GNU's Not Unix
CD - Compact Disc
DVD - Digital (Video|Versatile) Disc
CD-R - Compact Disc, Recordable
CD-RW - Compact Disc, ReWritable
DVD-R - DVD, Recordable
DVD-RW - DVD, ReWritable
HD - Hard Drive
HT - HyperThreading
CAD - Computer Aided Design
DAC - Digital to Analog Converter
AC - Alternating Current
DC - Direct Current
RAID - Redundant Array of (Inexpensive|Independent) Disks
IO - Input/Output
IOU - IO Unit?
Phew, my hands are tired...
Ah, but what about an x86 Darwin kernel? They DO exist, you know...
Darwin and a SMALL amount of the userland run on x86. However, I've heard that the rest of OS X has already been ported, Just In Case(tm).
When I was running 2000 on this laptop (yes, it came with an XP Pro license. I ran 2000 anyway), hibernate was a MAJOR tool in helping me dual-boot between Windows and Linux. I'd hibernate, then power up the lappy again, and go to Linux. Then, when I wanted back in Windows, it was as simple as a reboot into Windows, and it resumed from where I hibernated. I DISTINCTLY remember this.
Now, as for Terminal Services... I just used VNC.
Umm... you DO realize that the 6510 is a 6502 with a 6-bit I/O port added, and Commodore used it to aid bank switching, right? Seeing as all 65xx designs are derived from the 6502 (except for the 6502 itself, which is a lawsuit-friendly version of the 6501, which is a blatant ripoff of the m6800)
Apple pulled it off with a mere 6502. (Google Apple 80-column card for more info)
(This is just sad. I'm falling into the 8-bit wars...)
Microsoft, though, are they actually a huge rival? I mean, they've got a competing OS, but that's it. The XBox doesn't count as a computer, because it's sold as a console.
Microsoft and Apple have been partners since 1977, IIRC, and they most definitely WEREN'T enemies then... if it weren't for Apple, MS would have died in about 1978.
Ah, but AMD can't do the quantity that Apple needs.
Oh, and if they are going x86, the timing suggests that the Mac Mini 2 will use Yonah (IF it's x86...) There's huge technical reasons to do that. I still don't think that's the case, though - they never actually said x86.
I'm sure they're enabling the DRM - the Pentium D has it NOW, and Yonah will have it, so if they go x86, there WILL be the DRM.
First, I agree about Intel PPCs.
However, if it IS x86, then I think it's P-M. The dates and systems point to Yonah, the dual-core P-M.
One of two theories, here. Either they're using a P-M (makes sense, if they're going x86), which AMD can't quite touch, or Intel does not mean x86. It may mean Intel's got a PPC, or even Apple's going to ARM.
I've already speculated that they're SOMEHOW making a PPC, or maybe even, umm, scaling the XScale to run on desktops (after all, it's Acorn RISC Machine (sad that I know that, esp. considering I've never left the US))...
Totally unrelated side note: the designers of the ARM were inspired by the 6502. Something to chew on, if Apple switches to ARM - they'll go from 6502 to m68k to PPC to an arch loosely based on 6502 in thirty years exactly.
I'm thinking Apple has as much stake in this as IBM and Motor^WFreescale.
I know PowerPC is derived from IBM's POWER architecture, which may mean that IBM has control, though. Apple COULD have enough leverage to force IBM into letting Intel use it, but I doubt it.
I forget almost all of the details of the old AIM alliance, but here's what I remember (could be wrong, mind you):
Apple was to make systems around the processor.
IBM was to design the processor (and chose a design based on their own POWER architecture for mainframes). THIS is why we could have problems - IBM may have only licensed stuff like this to Motorola.
Motorola was to mass produce the shit out of the thing (IBM could, too, but Motorola wanted something to do). As we know, some models IBM made, some Motorola. HOPEFULLY, it's Intel in the future...
My theory is that Intel is doing a PPC knockoff. After all, they've got the R&D...
Hmm... something I just thought of...
Did they outright say that Mac OS would be on x86, or just on an Intel chip? If it's on a non-x86 Intel chip, I'm thinking one of two things:
a. Intel's going to be making PPCs. Isn't PPC an open spec?
b. Apple's switching to ARM. However, could Intel get XScale to, umm, scale?
Hmm... interesting...
They're tying it into SP2's features from what I've heard. Last I checked, though, it's not illegal to use features that an update for a couple of OSes (XP and S2K3) offers, but no other OS offers.
Basically, they haven't tied it to the OS - they're just using an API that they've only made available for their latest OSes.
That compatibility thing is in Windows 2000, as well...
Get your W2K CD. Run (Drive):\Support\Apcompat.exe. It should help you.