>cant just pull the motherboard out of my blue'n'white G3 and replace it with a dual G4-capable one. The best I can do is a single-G4 daughterboard
This is false, you can do better. There are several SMP G4 processor upgrade cards on the market. PowerLogix makes one of them if I recall correctly. There is talk of a 4-way G4 card coming out when processor supplies are not so constrained.
Don't break your arm trying to pat yourself on the back.
I'm sure Apple has had their SMP working for quite some time. They've showed it to ISVs and other developers under NDA. They do QA testing on their software, see. (most of the time)
Remember when Rhapsody was almost ready to ship, and large Mac developers said "no way" to ports of their moneymaking apps to Rhapsody. Apple needed another year to make Carbon (reentrant classic mac APIs superset). Blame Microsoft. Blame Adobe. Blame Canada, but don't say Apple didn't get top engineers from NeXT, Inc.
> I don't know why there's this insane drive to make laptops as powerful as their desktop contemporaries;
Because buisness people pay through the nose for status laptops. While geeks who have seen a POS $800 laptop think there is a conspiracy to make all good hardware more expensive than that.
Let's see, there are the Slashdot readers who know you can use multi-button mice with Macs. Also People in Germany. And some former Atari ST users. (iCab's codebase started on an Atari)
That's alot more than tiresome people such as yourself already.
the Carbon API is not an emulation layer. You must have Carbon mistaken with Classic (a.k.a. Blue Box = a layer that boots its own copy of Mac OS 9 for legacy apps). Carbon is a fully reentrant and portable version of the Mac ToolBox (the name from before "API" was a household word). If Apple had developed the Carbon APIs before Jobs came back to Apple Copland might have worked.
If you recall the reason why Rhapsody was a flop with Adobe, Quark, Macromedia, and Microsoft was that they would have had to rewrite their big money-making apps in Cocoa (the OpenStep APIs). OSX was Apple's solution that introduced Carbon to the mix. Carbon is an updated (from 1984's design constraints) protected memory and preemptive multitasking friendly Mac Toolbox. (Mac API+ you could call it).
Why didn't Appe just introduce Carbon in the first place? Carbon was seen (by Apple at the time) as a threat to developer acceptance of the superior Openstep APIs.
Now we have both. The majority of developers are happy.
Why didn't Apple come up with Carbon on their own, without Steve Jobs as CEO. Apple as you may know had RealCrappy management in the early 90s.
Thats what Aqua is. Aqua catches the attention of a lot of people who thought Apple stagnated or left them for dead. Stupid reporters for example. Its been proven over and over again that the best technonogy is not assured of winning. Aqua is the sellable "sizzle" of the Mach/BSD/Openstep libs core.
Look at it this way, if Natalie Portman puts on a lime green 70s polyester pant suit ensemble that does not make her an ugly person. Similary with OS X and Aqua, you can "take the clothes off at home" so to speak. And load what ever bit-mapped gui elements you like, or can make.
I guess thats why all of Apple's G3 powerbooks are made by Quanta in Taiwan, the same plant that turns out Gateway, Dell, and IBM ThinkPads. iBooks are made by AlphaTop also of Taiwan. Apple closed their Cork Ireland plant that made PowerBook mainboards and assembled full PowerBooks to cut costs. So they could lower prices, to be more competitive.
As if all you tech-heads really wanted to buy e-Ones! With all the crys of "It's not expandable" to Apple's machine in the first place, I doubt it. Give me a break.
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The only thing Apple invented with the ADC was the name.
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>cant just pull the motherboard out of my blue'n'white G3 and replace it with a dual G4-capable one. The best I can do is a single-G4 daughterboard
This is false, you can do better. There are several SMP G4 processor upgrade cards on the market. PowerLogix makes one of them if I recall correctly. There is talk of a 4-way G4 card coming out when processor supplies are not so constrained.
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This new SMP kernel is hosted on Terrasoft's ftp server. If I'm not mistaken.
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Don't break your arm trying to pat yourself on the back.
I'm sure Apple has had their SMP working for quite some time. They've showed it to ISVs and other developers under NDA. They do QA testing on their software, see. (most of the time)
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Torch Systems, baby. Torch Systems from the UK
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Remember when Rhapsody was almost ready to ship, and large Mac developers said "no way" to ports of their moneymaking apps to Rhapsody. Apple needed another year to make Carbon (reentrant classic mac APIs superset). Blame Microsoft. Blame Adobe. Blame Canada, but don't say Apple didn't get top engineers from NeXT, Inc.
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The 604 is a PowerPC processor, it even has better floating point than a G3. Perhaps you are thinking of the Motorola 68000 family.
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> I don't know why there's this insane drive to make laptops as powerful as their desktop contemporaries;
Because buisness people pay through the nose for status laptops. While geeks who have seen a POS $800 laptop think there is a conspiracy to make all good hardware more expensive than that.
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Ironicly, iCab grinds to a standstill rendering some of Macslash's main page.
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Who has ever heard of iCab before this article?
Let's see, there are the Slashdot readers who know you can use multi-button mice with Macs. Also People in Germany. And some former Atari ST users. (iCab's codebase started on an Atari)
That's alot more than tiresome people such as yourself already.
Support PPC and Alpha Linux with binaries.
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The first I heard of the Palm PayPal app or PayPal for that matter was because of the service cancelation.
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Apple uses vector outlines and bitmapped textures for any Quartz GUI that is my understanding of it.
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the Carbon API is not an emulation layer. You must have Carbon mistaken with Classic (a.k.a. Blue Box = a layer that boots its own copy of Mac OS 9 for legacy apps). Carbon is a fully reentrant and portable version of the Mac ToolBox (the name from before "API" was a household word). If Apple had developed the Carbon APIs before Jobs came back to Apple Copland might have worked.
If you recall the reason why Rhapsody was a flop with Adobe, Quark, Macromedia, and Microsoft was that they would have had to rewrite their big money-making apps in Cocoa (the OpenStep APIs). OSX was Apple's solution that introduced Carbon to the mix. Carbon is an updated (from 1984's design constraints) protected memory and preemptive multitasking friendly Mac Toolbox. (Mac API+ you could call it).
Why didn't Appe just introduce Carbon in the first place? Carbon was seen (by Apple at the time) as a threat to developer acceptance of the superior Openstep APIs.
Now we have both. The majority of developers are happy.
Why didn't Apple come up with Carbon on their own, without Steve Jobs as CEO. Apple as you may know had RealCrappy management in the early 90s.
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bitmapped fricking graphics.
Thats what Aqua is. Aqua catches the attention of a lot of people who thought Apple stagnated or left them for dead. Stupid reporters for example. Its been proven over and over again that the best technonogy is not assured of winning. Aqua is the sellable "sizzle" of the Mach/BSD/Openstep libs core.
Look at it this way, if Natalie Portman puts on a lime green 70s polyester pant suit ensemble that does not make her an ugly person. Similary with OS X and Aqua, you can "take the clothes off at home" so to speak. And load what ever bit-mapped gui elements you like, or can make.
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Does /. have a Mach icon? Maybe now is the time.
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One missing detail for the younger slashdotters - NeXT started around 1986 not the 90's.
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I always thought the 5300 PB was fugly. Perhaps it was a love-child of office politics.
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I guess thats why all of Apple's G3 powerbooks are made by Quanta in Taiwan, the same plant that turns out Gateway, Dell, and IBM ThinkPads. iBooks are made by AlphaTop also of Taiwan. Apple closed their Cork Ireland plant that made PowerBook mainboards and assembled full PowerBooks to cut costs. So they could lower prices, to be more competitive.
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The main reason that this model of PowerBook sucked was that Apple contracted the manufacturing to Acer. What more do I need to say!
It was a misguided atempt to use "industry standard" parts, but all they got was mediocrity. The wrong sort of standard, to be sure...
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> don't think your gonna beable to telnet/ssh
Actually you can do both on Palms.
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People who hang out on Slashdot because they seem to think its part of Windows Gamer magazine get the reaction they deserve.
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>To quote the TV series "Daria," "It's a sick, sad, world."
Sort of self-fulfilling isn't it?
How can you watch that crap from the network that gutted Ren and Stempy.
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he's got a point. its funny
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but Eazel also has ex-NeXT people, and they know a thing or two about file browsers.
(having given Microsoft the "inspiration")
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As if all you tech-heads really wanted to buy e-Ones! With all the crys of "It's not expandable" to Apple's machine in the first place, I doubt it. Give me a break.
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