No, it didn't require a secondary x86 coprocessor.
It just ran on MIPS.
The problem is, x86 userland software didn't run without being recompiled (except for a badly emulated DOS environment), so if your software vendor didn't compile for MIPS, you were screwed.
On Alpha, DEC did a profiling recompiler for NT, and due to the speed of the Alpha, that approach nearly worked, except for Compaq getting distracted by Itanium, and cancelling Alpha stuff just as it was picking up steam into Windows 2000.
What's interesting is, democracy is actually the most vulnerable system to this one.
Even if everyone in the democracy at a given point in time is OK, Sony can buy politicians with campaign contributions, and essentially install corrupt politicians that accepted bribes before they were even in government, and sufficiently hide that for long enough to install the corrupt ones.
The thing with trade secrets is that you're only bound by the NDA if you actually signed it.
If the company gives you the trade secret, without making you sign an NDA, but puts it inside a box, it's their fault if you open the box and get the trade secret, not yours.
I'm assuming we were talking about Tegra 2s, so it'd look like one NUMA machine with 4 cores and two 4-"core" GPUs, versus the Kal-El chip, which can run a normal OS, has 4 cores, and runs a 12-"core" GPU.
The math IS screwy - 2 times better CPU performance (the benchmarks THEY show even show this - it's the same clock speed, same CPU cores), 3 times better GPU performance.
You don't get to add those numbers.
Still, being able to dance with a Core 2 Duo is pretty damn good.
Can't build a system with two Tegras, as they're not CPUs, they're SoCs - it'd be two systems on the same motherboard. (Which would be interesting for some server applications, but still...)
(And, before you say, "what about x86 compatibility?" Keep in mind that Microsoft is trying to solve that, too, by making everything.NET. Do it for long enough, and x86 becomes unnecessary.)
However, buying a used PS3 means that you're giving money to someone who was willing to give Sony money before.
If you want to have a PS3, steal one. And I don't mean pirate one, I mean physically commit the crime of theft, by depriving a store of that property. (No, this isn't a serious suggestion. The serious suggestion is, live without the PS3.)
The problem is, in parts of the US, roads were designed for horses, not for cars... and they've shoehorned interstates (lowest-bidder crap quality autobahn equivalent, as far as the intent of the system goes) into those parts of the US.
Short entrance ramp (so as to disturb as little historic land and places where people are living as possible), going uphill (because the interstates had to be built above said historic land and places where people are living), merging directly into traffic.
Yeah, it ain't pretty in a slow car. (My trick with them, when I'm in a slow car, is, if I can't find a better entrance ramp, wait until the lights are green all the way through to the ramp, accelerate as hard as possible, disregarding speed limits, and carry as much momentum onto the ramp as possible.) However, I've never had a problem with my Miata (which was a 1.6, so over 9 seconds, and it had a cylinder down on compression, so slower than that, even), and I haven't had a problem with my Golf TDI (about 11 seconds stock, but mine isn't stock).
They got it from the press release for the 2009 concept, which was 838 pounds. (It was also less powerful, was not a plug-in hybrid, and was a tandem seating layout, whereas this is a staggered side-by-side seating layout.)
And, VW's official range figures - 35 km electric only, 550 km total range, 10 L fuel tank - give up the real fuel economy of 121 mpg on diesel.
Actually, modern (in the US, 1998+ New Beetle, 1999.5+ Golf/Jetta) VW diesels are easier than that to do oil changes on. With the engine cover off, if you have an oil extractor, you just stick it down the dipstick tube, suck the oil out, remove the filter while that's going on, and then put the new filter in once it's empty, take the tube out, and fill the crankcase with oil.
I don't believe the XL1 actually has a sport mode.
The L1, the 2009 predecessor, did. And, sport mode was a pretty significant power boost - they switched to different maps to allow for more power, and probably a different shift program, as well.
There appears to be some confusion between the L1 and XL1.
L1 = 838 pounds, 39 hp in sport mode, plus 14 hp electric motor, 14.3 seconds to 62 mph XL1 = 1753 pounds, 48 hp, plus 27 hp electric motor, 11.9 seconds to 62 mph
On the TDIs, you really do NEED the special tools.
In your case, they lock the camshaft and crankshaft in place, and there's also a special tensioner wrench.
(On older TDIs, some of them are different, but have the same functions, and there's also a pin to lock the injection pump in place, as well as a program that runs on a laptop, to check the injection timing after it's all put back together.)
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BBC Micro ran a 6502, the Archimedes was the original ARM-based line.
No, it didn't require a secondary x86 coprocessor.
It just ran on MIPS.
The problem is, x86 userland software didn't run without being recompiled (except for a badly emulated DOS environment), so if your software vendor didn't compile for MIPS, you were screwed.
On Alpha, DEC did a profiling recompiler for NT, and due to the speed of the Alpha, that approach nearly worked, except for Compaq getting distracted by Itanium, and cancelling Alpha stuff just as it was picking up steam into Windows 2000.
What about the rootkit?
That's something Sony did that had almost zero effect on hackers, yet exposed normal users to malware.
What's interesting is, democracy is actually the most vulnerable system to this one.
Even if everyone in the democracy at a given point in time is OK, Sony can buy politicians with campaign contributions, and essentially install corrupt politicians that accepted bribes before they were even in government, and sufficiently hide that for long enough to install the corrupt ones.
One election cycle, and it's all over.
For the keyboard on an iBook, it's two tabs.
The hard drive, on the other hand, is about 50 screws, stripping the machine down to the motherboard.
The thing with trade secrets is that you're only bound by the NDA if you actually signed it.
If the company gives you the trade secret, without making you sign an NDA, but puts it inside a box, it's their fault if you open the box and get the trade secret, not yours.
Sony's getting the government to restrict Hotz's speech.
I'm assuming we were talking about Tegra 2s, so it'd look like one NUMA machine with 4 cores and two 4-"core" GPUs, versus the Kal-El chip, which can run a normal OS, has 4 cores, and runs a 12-"core" GPU.
The math IS screwy - 2 times better CPU performance (the benchmarks THEY show even show this - it's the same clock speed, same CPU cores), 3 times better GPU performance.
You don't get to add those numbers.
Still, being able to dance with a Core 2 Duo is pretty damn good.
Can't build a system with two Tegras, as they're not CPUs, they're SoCs - it'd be two systems on the same motherboard. (Which would be interesting for some server applications, but still...)
ARM, for one.
(And, before you say, "what about x86 compatibility?" Keep in mind that Microsoft is trying to solve that, too, by making everything .NET. Do it for long enough, and x86 becomes unnecessary.)
11 years after the fact, Sony still sells PS2s, and quite a lot of them.
So, the "I was going to" argument definitely works.
However, buying a used PS3 means that you're giving money to someone who was willing to give Sony money before.
If you want to have a PS3, steal one. And I don't mean pirate one, I mean physically commit the crime of theft, by depriving a store of that property. (No, this isn't a serious suggestion. The serious suggestion is, live without the PS3.)
Except when you have a representative democracy where big business controls the media.
Then, even if people don't accept the bribe, they just get voted out and replaced with puppets of the big business.
Except the US is only first-to-invent-if-you-file-within-a-year, I thought.
So, if you invent, and then wait over a year to file, no patent for you, at least if the examiner is competent, and if my understanding is correct.
And what does the internet kill switch have to do with the corporate ownership of America?
In fact, that's the one example you cited that our corporate overlords would be OPPOSED to.
The problem is, in parts of the US, roads were designed for horses, not for cars... and they've shoehorned interstates (lowest-bidder crap quality autobahn equivalent, as far as the intent of the system goes) into those parts of the US.
Short entrance ramp (so as to disturb as little historic land and places where people are living as possible), going uphill (because the interstates had to be built above said historic land and places where people are living), merging directly into traffic.
Yeah, it ain't pretty in a slow car. (My trick with them, when I'm in a slow car, is, if I can't find a better entrance ramp, wait until the lights are green all the way through to the ramp, accelerate as hard as possible, disregarding speed limits, and carry as much momentum onto the ramp as possible.) However, I've never had a problem with my Miata (which was a 1.6, so over 9 seconds, and it had a cylinder down on compression, so slower than that, even), and I haven't had a problem with my Golf TDI (about 11 seconds stock, but mine isn't stock).
They got it from the press release for the 2009 concept, which was 838 pounds. (It was also less powerful, was not a plug-in hybrid, and was a tandem seating layout, whereas this is a staggered side-by-side seating layout.)
And, VW's official range figures - 35 km electric only, 550 km total range, 10 L fuel tank - give up the real fuel economy of 121 mpg on diesel.
Actually, modern (in the US, 1998+ New Beetle, 1999.5+ Golf/Jetta) VW diesels are easier than that to do oil changes on. With the engine cover off, if you have an oil extractor, you just stick it down the dipstick tube, suck the oil out, remove the filter while that's going on, and then put the new filter in once it's empty, take the tube out, and fill the crankcase with oil.
Never even have to crawl under the car. :D
It won't. That's why the version shown now is 1753 pounds. (And 48 hp, with a beefier electric motor, too.)
I don't believe the XL1 actually has a sport mode.
The L1, the 2009 predecessor, did. And, sport mode was a pretty significant power boost - they switched to different maps to allow for more power, and probably a different shift program, as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETCjUn2pbn0
There appears to be some confusion between the L1 and XL1.
L1 = 838 pounds, 39 hp in sport mode, plus 14 hp electric motor, 14.3 seconds to 62 mph
XL1 = 1753 pounds, 48 hp, plus 27 hp electric motor, 11.9 seconds to 62 mph
Actually, there's two different cars being discussed.
The 838 pound, 39 hp car is the L1 Concept, which was a tandem seated version from 2009.
This is a 1753 pound, 48 hp version... but, keep in mind that it is a hybrid (as was the L1,) and it's 74 hp when you consider the electric motor.
On the TDIs, you really do NEED the special tools.
In your case, they lock the camshaft and crankshaft in place, and there's also a special tensioner wrench.
(On older TDIs, some of them are different, but have the same functions, and there's also a pin to lock the injection pump in place, as well as a program that runs on a laptop, to check the injection timing after it's all put back together.)