(because many of the clones sort of sucked -- a Umax Mac may have been cheaper, but certainly was not better than a genuine Apple, by a long shot).
Umm, also, some of the clones, i.e. Power Computing boxes, made the Apple hardware suck by comparison. Apple couldn't compete in a non-monopoly setting, so they pulled the rug out from under the cloners.
A thorough explanation of 'why Be went belly up' would start with the fact that Apple kicked Be off their chosen hardware platform (Apple hardware with the PPC chip in it that Be had previously featured in their OWN hardware) by completely locking them out of the next-gen Macs.
Be was forced by this to shift over to Intel-only hardware. No other vendor locked BeOS out in their hardware/firmware except Apple. It's ludicrous to 'blame' the demise of Be on anybody but Apple.
AMD makes some pretty good chips. Their flash chips and their EPROMs are fine. I'm not sure if they still make 'glue' stuff like TTL any longer. And their 2900 series 'bit slice' processors were great.
The entire architecture of an intel-based Mac motherboard will be non-PC compatible. Apple isn't going to order out for motherboards from the same place Dell does, and slap their BIOS on it.
But if the customer who buys the $35K instrument would otherwise have bought a new $50K instrument, the sale of the refurbished equipment is a net loss of $15K.
Do the machines get 'replaced' as in 'take out of service' or do the 'replaced' machines get handed down to somebody else? The 'every two years' replacement versus 'every four' would mean twice the growth of userbase.
I have a stack of Beige G3 machines, two SE/30's, a Powerbook 165c that I like to use occasionally, some other Mac stuff like an LX. Is that all counted in the 'install base'?
Well, 'units sold' isn't an accurate measure, either. I have 4 machines connected to a KVM, and all of them were 'sold' to a school district 6-10 years ago. But I am 'using' them. Two have Windows and the two other have NetBSD. Does that mean I register as two NetBSD users and two Windows users? One of them has four cpus. Does that machine count as FOUR NetBSD users??
I am almost finished reading it, and it is disappointing in some regards. But it's interesting material covered.
Oh, and looking at your 'plagarism' claim, the evidence looks mostly like the same exact quotes. Is a biographer supposed to change what the subject says to avoid charges of plagarism.
And... doesn't a charge of 'plagarism' validate the material in the book, i.e. wether plagarized or not, Jobs pathos is documented twice?
A bunch of years ago I experimented with underclocking. I had an old AST 'Bravo' 286 machine and there wasn't much interesting to do with it. (I was running Slackware on a constellation of 386sx and better machines to fool around with networking). It had a socketed 'crystal block' TTL oscillator. I had a bunch of other oscillators around so I started plugging them in.
The base machine was as slow as an AT gets, it was a 6 MHz. 286. I plugged in a 1 MHz oscillator to make it a 512 KHz '286 machine. It actually booted up, very veeeery slowly. You could count the actual steps as the BIOS did the traditional 'step the floppy drive to one end and back' sequence.
Very nice!
Then I tried some even lower-value oscillators. I have block oscillators down to a value of 32.764 KHz. The machine wouldn't boot up at all at lower frequencies.
This is because the memory on the motherboard, and indeed the registers inside the CPU themselves, are dynamically refreshed. If the chip isn't run fast enough, it crashes.
There are processors that can run down to zero hertz, with an all-static CMOS design. The Intersil/Harris 6100 processor has this characteristic. You can use a knife switch as your clock if you wish.
No hardware vendor makes money from secondary sales ('used' sales) of their hardware. This is also a good tactic from the DRM angle for Apple. It's a benefit to them to 'lock' each individual iPod to an individual.
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(because many of the clones sort of sucked -- a Umax Mac may have been cheaper, but certainly was not better than a genuine Apple, by a long shot).
Umm, also, some of the clones, i.e. Power Computing boxes, made the Apple hardware suck by comparison. Apple couldn't compete in a non-monopoly setting, so they pulled the rug out from under the cloners.
See also: why Be went belly up.
A thorough explanation of 'why Be went belly up' would start with the fact that Apple kicked Be off their chosen hardware platform (Apple hardware with the PPC chip in it that Be had previously featured in their OWN hardware) by completely locking them out of the next-gen Macs.
Be was forced by this to shift over to Intel-only hardware. No other vendor locked BeOS out in their hardware/firmware except Apple. It's ludicrous to 'blame' the demise of Be on anybody but Apple.
AMD makes some pretty good chips. Their flash chips and their EPROMs are fine. I'm not sure if they still make 'glue' stuff like TTL any longer. And their 2900 series 'bit slice' processors were great.
Since there are Windows-based schemes for mounting and manipulating Linux partitions, this is nothing new.
The entire architecture of an intel-based Mac motherboard will be non-PC compatible. Apple isn't going to order out for motherboards from the same place Dell does, and slap their BIOS on it.
Whoah. You spun sorta out of control there.
it just means simple energy conservation measures, public transportation, better city planning, etc.
I think you mean 'better central planning.' And we see where you are leading.
But if the customer who buys the $35K instrument would otherwise have bought a new $50K instrument, the sale of the refurbished equipment is a net loss of $15K.
the last time I was in the Apple Store in Ginza people were buying Mac Minis by the armload.
They weren't buying Dells? At the Apple Store in Ginza?
Oh, btw: your sister and her husband, who live in Japan, hardly count as a representative sample.
Couple that with the fact that good government is small, unobtrusive, weak government, and we've got a hit!
Do the machines get 'replaced' as in 'take out of service' or do the 'replaced' machines get handed down to somebody else? The 'every two years' replacement versus 'every four' would mean twice the growth of userbase.
I have a stack of Beige G3 machines, two SE/30's, a Powerbook 165c that I like to use occasionally, some other Mac stuff like an LX. Is that all counted in the 'install base'?
Well, 'units sold' isn't an accurate measure, either. I have 4 machines connected to a KVM, and all of them were 'sold' to a school district 6-10 years ago. But I am 'using' them. Two have Windows and the two other have NetBSD. Does that mean I register as two NetBSD users and two Windows users? One of them has four cpus. Does that machine count as FOUR NetBSD users??
Anything big and expensive is still shipped in a crate. Also anything 'important' is shipped so.
'Piles of cardboard cartons wrapped in plastic' is how little stuff gets shipped.
So the hatchet jobs have begun, eh?
I am almost finished reading it, and it is disappointing in some regards. But it's interesting material covered.
Oh, and looking at your 'plagarism' claim, the evidence looks mostly like the same exact quotes. Is a biographer supposed to change what the subject says to avoid charges of plagarism.
And... doesn't a charge of 'plagarism' validate the material in the book, i.e. wether plagarized or not, Jobs pathos is documented twice?
Indeed. But they'd probably still post comments, even after their heads had exploded.
A bunch of years ago I experimented with underclocking. I had an old AST 'Bravo' 286 machine and there wasn't much interesting to do with it. (I was running Slackware on a constellation of 386sx and better machines to fool around with networking). It had a socketed 'crystal block' TTL oscillator. I had a bunch of other oscillators around so I started plugging them in.
The base machine was as slow as an AT gets, it was a 6 MHz. 286. I plugged in a 1 MHz oscillator to make it a 512 KHz '286 machine. It actually booted up, very veeeery slowly. You could count the actual steps as the BIOS did the traditional 'step the floppy drive to one end and back' sequence.
Very nice!
Then I tried some even lower-value oscillators. I have block oscillators down to a value of 32.764 KHz. The machine wouldn't boot up at all at lower frequencies.
This is because the memory on the motherboard, and indeed the registers inside the CPU themselves, are dynamically refreshed. If the chip isn't run fast enough, it crashes.
There are processors that can run down to zero hertz, with an all-static CMOS design. The Intersil/Harris 6100 processor has this characteristic. You can use a knife switch as your clock if you wish.
Not formally, they don't. But eliminating the secondary market for used iPod players will keep everybody a registered traceable owner.
Yellowman is the greatest rapper of all time.
Now, if you're talking 'wrapper', as in 'wrapping used to package music industry shit' maybe your estimation is more on-key.
'Desktop'/'Server' is marketspeak.
We're trying to have a technical discussion here.
I want to see Apple adopt Intel processors, and Microsoft drop Windows and merge with MacOS X.
Mainly I want to see that because it would be soo cool to watch the Mac fanatic brigade's heads explode like pimples.
Nope. Intel woke up in the 'super Socket 7' days.
1000000000 is just an arbitrary number that sells magazines when placed on the cover.
And if it wasn't for Microsoft, Apple would have died in about 1986. 'Word', 'Excel'- important keywords.
The point is 'backwards compatible' means that any and ALL of his old carts will work. Even, possibly, titles that Nintendo would rather forget.
Nintendo making a select catalog of 'the old favorites' available for 'free download' isn't at all the same.
Read the new unauthorized biography iCon for a good view of the Steve.
No hardware vendor makes money from secondary sales ('used' sales) of their hardware. This is also a good tactic from the DRM angle for Apple. It's a benefit to them to 'lock' each individual iPod to an individual.