$91.50 + shipping for a "portable" manual (it's about the size as the "portable" electrics that came in huge carrying cases. It's not one of the "ultraportables" that are about 3" (IIRC) thick, though.)
The Model M is a buckling-spring/membrane hybrid (as in, the BS mechanism hits a membrane). The Model F uses a buckling-spring, but it uses capacitive switching rather than a membrane.
That said, if I'm not using the keyboard on this lappy, I'm on a Model M. The best 101-key keyboard evar!
FWIW, a 2.5GHz Pentium M can do it in about 25 seconds. Some guy got a P-M up to 3GHz using Liquid Nitrogen (the 735 (1.7GHz) appears to be the most popular OCer, apparently b/c it's got a good multi, and isn't too expensive, but I don't think he used that. I think he used the 755.), but it only did SuperPi 1M in 26 seconds for some strange reason *cough*fake*cough*.
Also, while a game may be MP only, it may have an SP mode. Unreal Tournament is pretty fun when there's nothing else to do, and the network's down, even in SP mode. Bots are your friends:P
IIRC, in Ohio, 16 is the minimum age for possesion.
18 of course for purchasing, but I don't think it has to be a parent if it's to give them to a minor (making what all my friends did legal - go through the girl who's 18 and smokes...)
That said, I have no need to know these laws, being a nonsmoker...
And the P2, and the PPro, and the P-M, and the K6, and the NexGen Nx586 (the direct predecessor to the K6, which was almost released as the Nx686 on Socket 463 using the NxBus, but was released on Socket 7 using the Intel GTL bus because AMD bought NexGen out *just* before they released it. The K5 and K6 have nothing in common, FWIW).
If it's a P6-based chip (Pentium Pro through Pentium M), Netburst-based chip (Pentium 4), Nx586, or an AMD K6 or later, then you've got one that does it already.
It translates (in hardware - not the same as Transmeta, which did it in software) x86 instructions to an internal RISC instruction set (the one that the Nx586 and AMD K6 used was called RISC86). The most commonly used x86 instructions directly map to the instructions used in the internal RISC processor. Then, it processes it using a RISC core. The system is totally unaware that there's not a true x86 CPU in there, though.
Last I checked, the only RAM that a 68000 or 6502 could handle without a support chip was SRAM.
DRAM's a whole lot more efficient, but needs a memory controller. And, yes, your 68000 and 6502 systems had memory controllers, unless they were EARLY 6502 systems (think pre-Apple I).
Granted, these bus technologies (DEC EV67 (used by K7) and Intel QPB (used by the P4 and P-M)) that are being implemented complicate things, requiring northbridges, but then again, northbridges are glorified DRAM and bus controllers - you had those on your 68K and 6502 systems, too.
Netburst is able to ramp to much higher clock speeds to to the long pipeline.
Of course, that pipeline means that it's not very efficient, but when Intel says, "Hey, we're at 3.8GHz versus AMD's 2.8GHz! l0l w00tz0rz!", the less informed consumers buy.
What about Merom/Conroe? IIRC, those are right in that timeline, and are going to be a new marchitecture. So, new x86 core, using the same design philosophies that guided the Pentium M team's decision to use a P6 respin.
The real value of FX!32 is that Alpha users no longer need an Intel system to use Win32 applications. For 16-bit Windows applications, however, you'll need Insignia Solutions' SoftWindows, a traditional (slow) emulator.
If there's 16-bit code in there, that explains it.
Re: your Alpha rig: It'll run Linux, and it'll run NT4. Run NT4, and it'll run anything a Pentium from whatever era that Alpha came from could run, and at about the same speed.
I thought that Python determined what it was by the number of spaces. IIRC, IDLE (the Python IDE) uses 4 spaces...
I agree, though, that tabs are better. However, blocks of 4 spaces are treated as tabs by IDLE (which, needless to say, is kinda odd...) That is a DEFAULT setting, though, that can be changed...
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Like these.
$91.50 + shipping for a "portable" manual (it's about the size as the "portable" electrics that came in huge carrying cases. It's not one of the "ultraportables" that are about 3" (IIRC) thick, though.)
IBM Selectric: Not new, and it's electric.
He wants a new, non-electric typewriter.
Try a Model F...
The Model M is a buckling-spring/membrane hybrid (as in, the BS mechanism hits a membrane). The Model F uses a buckling-spring, but it uses capacitive switching rather than a membrane.
That said, if I'm not using the keyboard on this lappy, I'm on a Model M. The best 101-key keyboard evar!
I actually DID RTFA. (That's how I knew for *sure* it was scaling, and it wasn't just weird JPEG compression artifacts)
However, I'd rather have a 480x272 display that matches the LCD pixel for pixel, and not have to worry about the scaling.
Reading that, why don't they somehow modify the Bochs "video card" to have the PSP-native resolution? Shouldn't be *that* hard...
IIRC, going by [b]APPLE[/b] marketing info (back in the G4 days) and rough guestimates, a P3 1GHz is roughly as fast as a Cray-2. Try again... :P
Pi == Pi, yes, but FASTPI uses a different (faster) algorithm than SuperPi...
On a *SERIOUS* note, it's about as fast as a 3.5 or 4GHz Pentium M by my estimates...
FASTPI != SuperPi...
FWIW, a 2.5GHz Pentium M can do it in about 25 seconds. Some guy got a P-M up to 3GHz using Liquid Nitrogen (the 735 (1.7GHz) appears to be the most popular OCer, apparently b/c it's got a good multi, and isn't too expensive, but I don't think he used that. I think he used the 755.), but it only did SuperPi 1M in 26 seconds for some strange reason *cough*fake*cough*.
Also, while a game may be MP only, it may have an SP mode. Unreal Tournament is pretty fun when there's nothing else to do, and the network's down, even in SP mode. Bots are your friends :P
IIRC, in Ohio, 16 is the minimum age for possesion.
18 of course for purchasing, but I don't think it has to be a parent if it's to give them to a minor (making what all my friends did legal - go through the girl who's 18 and smokes...)
That said, I have no need to know these laws, being a nonsmoker...
And the P2, and the PPro, and the P-M, and the K6, and the NexGen Nx586 (the direct predecessor to the K6, which was almost released as the Nx686 on Socket 463 using the NxBus, but was released on Socket 7 using the Intel GTL bus because AMD bought NexGen out *just* before they released it. The K5 and K6 have nothing in common, FWIW).
What processor is in your computer?
If it's a P6-based chip (Pentium Pro through Pentium M), Netburst-based chip (Pentium 4), Nx586, or an AMD K6 or later, then you've got one that does it already.
It translates (in hardware - not the same as Transmeta, which did it in software) x86 instructions to an internal RISC instruction set (the one that the Nx586 and AMD K6 used was called RISC86). The most commonly used x86 instructions directly map to the instructions used in the internal RISC processor. Then, it processes it using a RISC core. The system is totally unaware that there's not a true x86 CPU in there, though.
Last I checked, the only RAM that a 68000 or 6502 could handle without a support chip was SRAM.
DRAM's a whole lot more efficient, but needs a memory controller. And, yes, your 68000 and 6502 systems had memory controllers, unless they were EARLY 6502 systems (think pre-Apple I).
Granted, these bus technologies (DEC EV67 (used by K7) and Intel QPB (used by the P4 and P-M)) that are being implemented complicate things, requiring northbridges, but then again, northbridges are glorified DRAM and bus controllers - you had those on your 68K and 6502 systems, too.
Yes, it is. I simply didn't clarify that that was what I was voting for...
Umm... what is the Pentium 4 6xx? The Pentium 4 5x1 and 5x6? The Pentium D? The Celeron D 3x1 and 3x6?
Last I checked, those were all Intel EM64T (*cough*neutered AMD64*cough*) chips...
Marketing?
Netburst is able to ramp to much higher clock speeds to to the long pipeline.
Of course, that pipeline means that it's not very efficient, but when Intel says, "Hey, we're at 3.8GHz versus AMD's 2.8GHz! l0l w00tz0rz!", the less informed consumers buy.
What about Merom/Conroe? IIRC, those are right in that timeline, and are going to be a new marchitecture. So, new x86 core, using the same design philosophies that guided the Pentium M team's decision to use a P6 respin.
Looking at Byte's review of FX!32, here goes:
The real value of FX!32 is that Alpha users no longer need an Intel system to use Win32 applications. For 16-bit Windows applications, however, you'll need Insignia Solutions' SoftWindows, a traditional (slow) emulator.
If there's 16-bit code in there, that explains it.
Re: your Alpha rig: It'll run Linux, and it'll run NT4. Run NT4, and it'll run anything a Pentium from whatever era that Alpha came from could run, and at about the same speed.
Interesting...
I thought that Python determined what it was by the number of spaces. IIRC, IDLE (the Python IDE) uses 4 spaces...
I agree, though, that tabs are better. However, blocks of 4 spaces are treated as tabs by IDLE (which, needless to say, is kinda odd...) That is a DEFAULT setting, though, that can be changed...
Not all high schools.
:P)
Mine HAD two Macs, one 68040 based Mac that died, and one PPC 603? Mac that died...
(At least I'm a PC person
Using Foxit Reader instead of Adobe Reader also creates a dramatic speedup in start time. :P