Any regulation causes immediate appearance of black market. The "black boxes" would ensure that many of ordinarily lawful people would cross the thin red line and become serious criminals, violating (oh the horror!) the sacred law of DMCA (BTW, who would hold copyright on the recorded data?) and probably some more in the process.
Besides, you consider the government as an organization set up by people and for people.
What an unbounded naivete. You don't pay income taxes, do you? Do you feel that those money comes back to you in form of government services? Who would be paying for these boxes - is it actually a new tax? Lots of homework to do for you...
Well, we are lucky to have a monopolist here who at least knows something about their job. The competitors could not win with them, because:
* the small instruction size, along with the Thumb extension - compare MIPS16 much later; Hitachi SuperH is always 16-bit, though; smaller opcodes mean small memory and allow using a narrow or slower bus, thus reducing system power consumption
* low power consumption of the core itself
* even high-powered ARM9s are fully licensable (compare to higher MIPS devices, which were produced only for SGI)
* extendability - there are many versions of ARM cores, they share a simple bus; this means that there is a wealth of peripherals for each core
I think that SuperH could be a good choice, too. But they are late-comers. I, for one, use SuperH in my embedded designs.
For reasons unknown, the embedded market *loves* ARM cores without an MMU (phew!). It's silly of course (especially in the industrial market), but they are cheaper and more power-efficient. Now, it's hard to get MMUless SuperH implementations, but you can always order a MMU-capable ARM.
Note that ARM-including products are not promoted by ARM itself. You get a mail folder for TMS320C5471 (a DSP from Texas Instruments). What's inside? Of course, a ARM7TDMI. The same about Analog Devices (ahh, the eternal competitors) ADuC7000 series. Not to mention Motorola i.MXL that powers my Clie PalmOS-based device (ARM9 inside - yes, even Motorola did it!). So, ARM becomes an industry standard without anyone actually noticing until they make a close review of the products.
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Any regulation causes immediate appearance of black market. The "black boxes" would ensure that many of ordinarily lawful people would cross the thin red line and become serious criminals, violating (oh the horror!) the sacred law of DMCA (BTW, who would hold copyright on the recorded data?) and probably some more in the process.
Besides, you consider the government as an organization set up by people and for people.
What an unbounded naivete. You don't pay income taxes, do you? Do you feel that those money comes back to you in form of government services? Who would be paying for these boxes - is it actually a new tax? Lots of homework to do for you...
Well, we are lucky to have a monopolist here who at least knows something about their job. The competitors could not win with them, because: * the small instruction size, along with the Thumb extension - compare MIPS16 much later; Hitachi SuperH is always 16-bit, though; smaller opcodes mean small memory and allow using a narrow or slower bus, thus reducing system power consumption * low power consumption of the core itself * even high-powered ARM9s are fully licensable (compare to higher MIPS devices, which were produced only for SGI) * extendability - there are many versions of ARM cores, they share a simple bus; this means that there is a wealth of peripherals for each core I think that SuperH could be a good choice, too. But they are late-comers. I, for one, use SuperH in my embedded designs. For reasons unknown, the embedded market *loves* ARM cores without an MMU (phew!). It's silly of course (especially in the industrial market), but they are cheaper and more power-efficient. Now, it's hard to get MMUless SuperH implementations, but you can always order a MMU-capable ARM. Note that ARM-including products are not promoted by ARM itself. You get a mail folder for TMS320C5471 (a DSP from Texas Instruments). What's inside? Of course, a ARM7TDMI. The same about Analog Devices (ahh, the eternal competitors) ADuC7000 series. Not to mention Motorola i.MXL that powers my Clie PalmOS-based device (ARM9 inside - yes, even Motorola did it!). So, ARM becomes an industry standard without anyone actually noticing until they make a close review of the products.