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- From: jtv@localhost.dial.xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 96 18:47:22
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <4jimf2$n24@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer) writes:
- > Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv@xs4all.nl) wrote:
- > : Doesn't really answer the question (not really surprising, it being a rhetorical
- > : one). SCSI3 controllers are available to us too. The Mac also uses PCI. The
- > : Walker will be able to use PCI hardware.
- >
- > Interesting --- SCSI3 is actually still on the drawing boards ;-)
-
- At the moment I understand it's being used as a collective term for several
- existing SCSI-II extensions. The Draco for instance is advertised as having
- SCSI-III.
-
-
- > : What I meant to say is that there's nothing "PC" about those pieces of hardware,
- > : just "mainstream".
- >
- > If you ever bothered to look at the drivers that come with these cards,
- > you'd find there is a lot "PC" about these cards. Most graphics cards
- > won't even display text in anything that doesn't at least emulate a PC,
- > because the on-board BIOS which is used to initialize the thing isn't
- > written in the abstract language it should, but rather in x86 assembler.
-
- Sorry, I screwed up here: "those pieces of hardware" should have been "the chip
- technology on those pieces of hardware", which was the point of debate as you'll
- recall.
-
- Yet the mistake can be used to illustrate my point: Replace the driver code by
- PowerPC code and the advantage would suddenly turn to the Mac. It's just a
- design slipup for a mainstream CPU-independent bus, not "PC technology".
-
-
- > : So thanks for taking the time, but I stand by my assertion that "the PC's chip
- > : technology is better" is utter nonsense.
- >
- > So make that "the technology of chips developed for the PC"?!?
-
- That would be closer to the truth, but IMHO the "bullseye" version would say
- "the technology of chips developed for the mainstream market"--my assertion
- being that from the technological point of view, the PC as a design has nothing
- special going for it. Nothing special at all.
-
-
- > Bernie
-
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