That's in the 6800 class, the Zaurus uses an ARM. The 6502, a lawsuit-inspired 6501, which was a ripoff of the 6800, inspired ARM, but totally different here... an 8-bit microcontroller (includes RAM and flash) running @ less than 20MHz, versus a 32-bit PXA255 running @ 400MHz?
Why does he need to? AT&T Wireless (I know, different company) is The Evil Cell Phone Company. They fuck you on prepaid, they fuck you on GSM (by breaking their national map, and saying everything on their local map is on their national map, when it's really only when the phone says "AT&T Wireless" on the screen, which is a VERY small area), they fuck you so many different ways. I've got a JE on this somewhere...
Anyway, (Sprint) PCS stands for Pretty (good) Cellular Service, not Paid Cock Suckers. Prices are OK for voice, and $15/mo for unlimited Vision (wireless web) service? Combine that with ReqWireless WebViewer ($10), and you've got it made.
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Is it running Palm OS 5, or 4.1? If 4.1, it's running a DragonBall (read: embedded 68000), and not an ARM. Also, the ARM in the Sharp is a LOT more powerful than most ARMs in Palms.
Removal of competition, BTW, makes companies MORE lazy, not less.
2.x was just fugly. Other than that, MS-DOS Executive being the shell, and no text below icons, the UI was much like that of 3.x.
http://toastytech.com/guis/win203question.gif is a screenshot of 2.03, and it's remarkably like http://toastytech.com/guis/win30help.gif (a screen of 3.00a)
GEOS, my friend, GEOS. Started out on the Commodedoor 64, got ported to the Apple II, then got ported to the PC, and various handhelds (even Nokia 90xx/91xx Communicators - the 92xx units run Symbian). GEM was Digital Research's GUI meant to complement CP/M, and got slammed by lawsuits from Apple.
Hell, I'm moving to a system with an i810 soon if I can catch one on the way to the dumpster (my school doesn't believe in repairing their computers - if there's a hardware failure, it gets tossed). It might get my PCI TNT2 thrown in there too, but I don't think that the i810 onboard graphics is usually easy to disable as primary, so it would only be used in a dual-head config (or maybe I could use a KVM to switch to the second head for games?)
You've never heard of WDC before? They made the 65C02, that nice version of the 6502 used in the Apple//c and Enhanced/Platinum editions of the//e (OK, so NCR made the ones in those, but NCR was a second-sourcer), and the 65816, used in the IIGS and Super Nintendo.
BTW, I forgot about the FOSS part. The driver was written by Precision Insight, and claims to support only up to i815. Intel offers a driver for iEG/iEG2, but it appears to be closed source, and piggybacks on to the i810 driver, so it might still work to just use i810.
...but you could consider Intel Extreme Graphics 2. It's not great, but it's fully supported under XFree86 with the i810 drivers (they won't hinder performance - the i810/815, iEG, and iEG2 are all compatible, but performance is improved with each generation).
I know it's ridiculously easy to enforce a password change - just right click on the user in Active Directory, and (I think in Password, it's been a while since I've been Admin on a Windows server, and that was because they needed someone to add new users and lock accounts, because their real admin quit) check "Password must be changed on next logon" or something like that. Worse would be to set the password lifespan (I forget what it's called) to 1 day - it's in the same place. I don't know how to change the password length, and I wanted to - my normal password (for my ordinary worthless student account) was less than their minimum length (and it still is).
The latest 3D games FOR LINUX, not the latest for Windows? You might get away with an i865G, which is handled by OPEN SOURCE, WITH INTEL CONTRIBUTIONS i810 graphics drivers.
IIRC, on an i845 laptop I had use of, performance on BZFlag was pretty good, but nothing compared to a modern card. The only thing you're going to have trouble with is the UT series, especially 2004 - just drop the resolution to 640x480...
And THAT, my friends, is how Phoenix got started. They simply grabbed a IBM PC 5150 technical reference manual, gave it to one group of programmers, who determined the hooks in the BIOS, and gave a list of those hooks to another group of programmers, who developed a BIOS around them.
Old companies: Cyrix - Now VIA Centaur - See Cyrix UMC - They don't make CPUs any more, and they didn't make it over here due to Intel patents anyway Rise - Umm... the mP6 wasn't that good anyway, and they're not making CPUs any more NexGen - Now AMD - the K6 is what became of the Nx686
Hmm, is WDC on board? If not, I'm going to see if this Terbium is the unreleased 65832...
However, it consisted of a DX that was broken (OK, so later ones were an economic bin), and couldn't be sold (I don't know how much it cost Intel to make a DX, or how much it cost), so they hit it with a laser to make it so they could sell it. If it cost $30 to make, and they could sell it at $500 in the DX variant, or $200 in the SX variant, but the feature that made it work as a DX was broken (in other words, they couldn't sell it for $500), but they could disable it, and sell it for $200, they're making more money.
Well, prior exposure depends on how well - my BASIC experience didn't make it to GOSUB/RETURN - only a little bit of GOTO, and I rarely used that. I couldn't do much more than a 10 PRINT "What is your name?" 20 INPUT A$ 30 PRINT "Hello, " A$ 40 GOTO 10...
I agree that Netscape tried this, but here's what happened:
Netscape was trying to rush new technologies out, no matter whether it broke standards or stability. This was to compete against Microsoft and others. Because of the feature set, it did attract many.
Microsoft, in the other corner, saw Netscape getting popular in the earlier years, and scrambled to get something that WORKED out. They then bundled it with Windows - it was a whole lot easier to use IE, which you already had, than Netscape. It was lacking until version 3, and it was a whole lot more stable - they were trying to show superiority over Netscape, even if that meant not cloning some of their features. However, they did slip some extensions that were only IE-supported in.
IE4 and NS4 came out, and IE's stability took a nosedive, but so did Netscape's. If IE crashed, it brought down Windows. Netscape would crash by double-clicking a link (I can reproduce that, too), but the system remained up. IMO, IE's rendering engine and UI were superior, so IE won the browser war on features, quality, and availability. Then, security wasn't a concern, but it would be when IE5 came out. As you know, Mozilla (and then Netscape 6) came out, and IE had competition again. Opera also became a threat to Microsoft at version 6.
I don't know if this works on flash, but I think it's one transistor/bit for memory (plus overhead for other stuff). It's climbing MUCH faster than Moore's Law.
If I'm not mistaken, it's the C5P core. This 3D acceleration that you speak of is in the chipset, and it's ordinary S3 ProSavage crap that you find in bottom-of-the-line P4 boards with VIA chipsets. However, the encryption stuff is awesome. It means this is one of the fastest CPUs to encrypt - it beats 3.4GHz P4s by miles.
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That's in the 6800 class, the Zaurus uses an ARM. The 6502, a lawsuit-inspired 6501, which was a ripoff of the 6800, inspired ARM, but totally different here... an 8-bit microcontroller (includes RAM and flash) running @ less than 20MHz, versus a 32-bit PXA255 running @ 400MHz?
Why does he need to? AT&T Wireless (I know, different company) is The Evil Cell Phone Company. They fuck you on prepaid, they fuck you on GSM (by breaking their national map, and saying everything on their local map is on their national map, when it's really only when the phone says "AT&T Wireless" on the screen, which is a VERY small area), they fuck you so many different ways. I've got a JE on this somewhere...
Anyway, (Sprint) PCS stands for Pretty (good) Cellular Service, not Paid Cock Suckers. Prices are OK for voice, and $15/mo for unlimited Vision (wireless web) service? Combine that with ReqWireless WebViewer ($10), and you've got it made.
Is it running Palm OS 5, or 4.1? If 4.1, it's running a DragonBall (read: embedded 68000), and not an ARM. Also, the ARM in the Sharp is a LOT more powerful than most ARMs in Palms.
Removal of competition, BTW, makes companies MORE lazy, not less.
2.x was just fugly. Other than that, MS-DOS Executive being the shell, and no text below icons, the UI was much like that of 3.x.
http://toastytech.com/guis/win203question.gif is a screenshot of 2.03, and it's remarkably like http://toastytech.com/guis/win30help.gif (a screen of 3.00a)
GEOS, my friend, GEOS. Started out on the Commodedoor 64, got ported to the Apple II, then got ported to the PC, and various handhelds (even Nokia 90xx/91xx Communicators - the 92xx units run Symbian). GEM was Digital Research's GUI meant to complement CP/M, and got slammed by lawsuits from Apple.
VMS will run on an Alpha, and HPaq still makes AlphaServers...
That doesn't look like what he needs. It'll work with a Logitech or MS mouse or keyboard, but not anything else.
Get one that has hardware inside - the ones that have both keyboard and mouse connectors usually do.
The site just gives me some eye, a sword, and something saying "Darkest: The World Beyond". Now, where's the Enter link? Oh, wait, there ISN'T ONE!
I even tried Web Archive, which got me either blank pages or redirects to that SWF mentioned above...
AFAIK, there were two versions (I haven't read the second article in years, so I could be wrong):
Apple II (the platform it was released on)
IBM PC
Other than that, I don't think it ran on anything else.
Hell, I'm moving to a system with an i810 soon if I can catch one on the way to the dumpster (my school doesn't believe in repairing their computers - if there's a hardware failure, it gets tossed). It might get my PCI TNT2 thrown in there too, but I don't think that the i810 onboard graphics is usually easy to disable as primary, so it would only be used in a dual-head config (or maybe I could use a KVM to switch to the second head for games?)
You've never heard of WDC before? They made the 65C02, that nice version of the 6502 used in the Apple //c and Enhanced/Platinum editions of the //e (OK, so NCR made the ones in those, but NCR was a second-sourcer), and the 65816, used in the IIGS and Super Nintendo.
BTW, I forgot about the FOSS part. The driver was written by Precision Insight, and claims to support only up to i815. Intel offers a driver for iEG/iEG2, but it appears to be closed source, and piggybacks on to the i810 driver, so it might still work to just use i810.
...but you could consider Intel Extreme Graphics 2. It's not great, but it's fully supported under XFree86 with the i810 drivers (they won't hinder performance - the i810/815, iEG, and iEG2 are all compatible, but performance is improved with each generation).
Western Design Center, not Western Digital Corporation.
No, Western Digital doesn't make anything other than hard drives.
I know it's ridiculously easy to enforce a password change - just right click on the user in Active Directory, and (I think in Password, it's been a while since I've been Admin on a Windows server, and that was because they needed someone to add new users and lock accounts, because their real admin quit) check "Password must be changed on next logon" or something like that. Worse would be to set the password lifespan (I forget what it's called) to 1 day - it's in the same place. I don't know how to change the password length, and I wanted to - my normal password (for my ordinary worthless student account) was less than their minimum length (and it still is).
The latest 3D games FOR LINUX, not the latest for Windows? You might get away with an i865G, which is handled by OPEN SOURCE, WITH INTEL CONTRIBUTIONS i810 graphics drivers.
IIRC, on an i845 laptop I had use of, performance on BZFlag was pretty good, but nothing compared to a modern card. The only thing you're going to have trouble with is the UT series, especially 2004 - just drop the resolution to 640x480...
And THAT, my friends, is how Phoenix got started. They simply grabbed a IBM PC 5150 technical reference manual, gave it to one group of programmers, who determined the hooks in the BIOS, and gave a list of those hooks to another group of programmers, who developed a BIOS around them.
Well, you could encrypt DRM crap VERY quickly on one of those! *ducks*
Intel - chipsets, CPUs
AMD - CPUs, chipsets
VIA - CPUs, chipsets
Motorola - CPUs
Transmeta - CPUs
ARM - CPUs
Old companies:
Cyrix - Now VIA
Centaur - See Cyrix
UMC - They don't make CPUs any more, and they didn't make it over here due to Intel patents anyway
Rise - Umm... the mP6 wasn't that good anyway, and they're not making CPUs any more
NexGen - Now AMD - the K6 is what became of the Nx686
Hmm, is WDC on board? If not, I'm going to see if this Terbium is the unreleased 65832...
However, it consisted of a DX that was broken (OK, so later ones were an economic bin), and couldn't be sold (I don't know how much it cost Intel to make a DX, or how much it cost), so they hit it with a laser to make it so they could sell it. If it cost $30 to make, and they could sell it at $500 in the DX variant, or $200 in the SX variant, but the feature that made it work as a DX was broken (in other words, they couldn't sell it for $500), but they could disable it, and sell it for $200, they're making more money.
What, like the i865 and i875 (the different feature has been enabled by mobo manufacturers)?
Well, prior exposure depends on how well - my BASIC experience didn't make it to GOSUB/RETURN - only a little bit of GOTO, and I rarely used that. I couldn't do much more than a 10 PRINT "What is your name?" 20 INPUT A$ 30 PRINT "Hello, " A$ 40 GOTO 10...
I'm not corrupted much...
I agree that Netscape tried this, but here's what happened:
Netscape was trying to rush new technologies out, no matter whether it broke standards or stability. This was to compete against Microsoft and others. Because of the feature set, it did attract many.
Microsoft, in the other corner, saw Netscape getting popular in the earlier years, and scrambled to get something that WORKED out. They then bundled it with Windows - it was a whole lot easier to use IE, which you already had, than Netscape. It was lacking until version 3, and it was a whole lot more stable - they were trying to show superiority over Netscape, even if that meant not cloning some of their features. However, they did slip some extensions that were only IE-supported in.
IE4 and NS4 came out, and IE's stability took a nosedive, but so did Netscape's. If IE crashed, it brought down Windows. Netscape would crash by double-clicking a link (I can reproduce that, too), but the system remained up. IMO, IE's rendering engine and UI were superior, so IE won the browser war on features, quality, and availability. Then, security wasn't a concern, but it would be when IE5 came out. As you know, Mozilla (and then Netscape 6) came out, and IE had competition again. Opera also became a threat to Microsoft at version 6.
I don't know if this works on flash, but I think it's one transistor/bit for memory (plus overhead for other stuff). It's climbing MUCH faster than Moore's Law.
If I'm not mistaken, it's the C5P core. This 3D acceleration that you speak of is in the chipset, and it's ordinary S3 ProSavage crap that you find in bottom-of-the-line P4 boards with VIA chipsets. However, the encryption stuff is awesome. It means this is one of the fastest CPUs to encrypt - it beats 3.4GHz P4s by miles.