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- Stephan Schaem (sschaem@teleport.com) wrote:
- : Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) wrote:
-
- : pentium price are dropping quick... a side note, it seem intel didn't
- : like the common practice of overclocking so they added some clock lock
- : mecanism.
-
- <cackle> Only from the minds of Intel. ("Intel--half intelligent.")
-
- : I am the only one that find powermac terrible? I find them supper slow
- : compared to pentium PC, and crash alot more. Thats MY observation.
-
- I'm sure you're not alone in that impression. Using public PowerMacs
- in schools, etc. is often agonizing. The damn things tend to be so
- poorly set up and overloaded with crap they are less responsive than most
- 040 Macs. My *home* machine (important distinction) is fast, very
- responsive, and quite stable. The version of the OS is also
- important--7.5.2 and 7.5.3 are generally faster and more responsive than
- 7.5.1 and earlier. (For instance, the resource manager isn't native
- until 7.5.2, so they are hitting 68K code every time they access a
- resource fork. (Which is VERY often indeed--some programs launch under
- 7.5.2 in a fraction of the time it takes with 7.5.)
-
- : : : 1) Licencing the translator from Apple (PowerPC)
-
- : : The obvious choice. The chips are fast and cheap, the emulator tech
- : : proven, reliable, and also quite fast.
-
- : I really wish we didn't feel the need for that... I hate kludges, patches
- : , fixes, hack. and thats all in one!
-
- An emulator isn't a big deal, and would make people MUCH more willing
- to switch. The problem with the Mac OS is all the 68K code in machine
- language and assembly, the legacy stuff that they needed but didn't have
- the resources to re-create in C/C++ right away. The cost of doing
- business, so to speak.
-
- : The impression I have is IBM is not to thrilled about the PPC anymore...
-
- They were just about a hopeless case from the start. :-) The refusal
- to go with an Apple-friendly platform standard from the start, the
- stumbling and choking on the OS/2 port, the relatively high prices and
- lack of software.... IBM is very good at some things, but I put about
- as much faith in their management as I do in congress. :-)
-
- : But I dont know what to make of the latest intel move, forgot the name
- : of the project. their own OS/CPU...
-
- Yep, some sort of Unix. I appears they ether don't trust the software
- companies to do a good enough job themselves, or just want to get a new
- market.
-
- : Yes, why bother.. lets make a portable OS based on the amiga OS!
-
- If AT can, that would certainly be the smart thing to do. Much
- depends on how large the OS is and how much is in a high level language.
-
- : I think AT shoulnd't even try to build a computer if its going to be
- : more $ then PC class HW. A portable OS... now that make sense.. to me :)
-
- AT might not for the same reason Apple wouldn't clone for so long--as
- long as they are the only ones making the hardware, they can charge a
- premium for it. (And the premiums can be huge--at one point Apple was
- making over a thousand dollars pure profit on high end machines!)
-
- ----
- "I was practically naked, dressed as a dominatrix and was slapping the
- audience with this huge rubber dick I was carrying. (Bill Gates)
- wandered by, so I started screaming 'Serve Me! Serve Me!' and put the
- dick on his shoulder--at which point, he emitted a mouse-like squeal and
- ran away. It was quite a scene." Slymenstra (GWAR)
-