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Quote: Originally posted by TJM Personally, I have great faith in software engineers' ability to build software that maxes out the capabilities of any system available. Today's desktops run programs that were in the realm of multimillion-dollar …
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Quote: Originally posted by flofighter The question is, when will we see 128 bit Computers? What's Altivec? RAM usage is going along and doubling... (4k, 8k, 16k...) CPU-bitness is going along and _doubling_in_exponent_. (2^8, 2^16, 2^32…
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Quote: Originally posted by onit For those apps that deal with numbers >4 billion is there any more simplicity in writing for 32-bit than 64-bit? Apologies if that's a stupid question, but I really have no idea. Yes and no. It depends on …
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Just echoing the others. 32 won't die for a long, long time. Probably a close approximation of "never" in embedded space. There were a LOT of reasons why 8, 16, 24 bit computers were 'too small'. 1) Instruction space 2) Loops/algorithms 3) R…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer ...I came across a note in the specs that says HyperTransport might be useable for that. I thought I remembered a 'Serialized HT' version for board-to-board level connections, but I'm missing it now. Wa…
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Quote: Originally posted by synp Once you've exposed malloc32 to developers, it goes into the code (probably by some search-and-replace on malloc) and never comes out again. Three years down the road, all APIs are 64-bit, but a lot of code still…
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There exist places where wireless is verboten. (Think DoD, Boeing, etc.) They don't issue directives like "You can't turn your airport card _on_". They issue directives like "None of the machines working on Project Roswell may have wireless cap…
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Quote: Originally posted by ast3r3x soo...what ya think? The frontside-bus uses a viaduct running in front of the right-most building that is currently rated "able to withstand a 3.0 earthquake" in an area with 4's & 5's pretty frequently…
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Oh no, I agree with matsu! This time last year there was constraints on both the high end _and_ the low end. The "power"Macs were under powered to be "nice top-of-the-line boxes". And the iMacs needed a certain level of minimum grunt to manage…
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Looking at the side view of the case from Apple, that's a full-size std drive bay. There exist laptop optical drive _pairs_ where the DVD and CD are both half-height - they'd both fit into that one full height bay. (Not to mention the dead space …
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Quote: Originally posted by Aphelion My information was specific in that the expansion chassis that is currently being developed by Apple uses a PCI-X card as it's interface. Without getting your fellow in trouble, it sort of depends on exac…
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I can't say this often enough, but there are a wide array of things that the 970 will obliterate the G4 in. Not 'pass' or 'edge-out', but destroy, crush, maim etc. There's a lot of yakking about the _CROSS_platform tests, but there's really very …
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Quote: Originally posted by anthonypalmer no, that didn't generate a script. It only seems that window operations generate anything. Feh. How about moving icons inside a standard window? (As opposed to the 'Desktop', which is funky)
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Quote: Originally posted by anthonypalmer stupid question maybe, but was the Finder recordable from Script Editor in Jaguar ? Well, it is now anyway, and Script Editor sports a nice new interface. This is cool ? Check this would you pleas…
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Quote: Originally posted by AirSluf Take each of those arguments and turn them around. Instead of comparing equivalent code, they want to compare unoptimized GCC code against highly optimized Intel compiler code (same story for performance librar…
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Quote: Originally posted by Ensign Pulver 2. If Steve can't deliver EXACTLY that list of specs at the keynote, he will get booed and whatever he does intro will be viewed as a disappointment, even if the "real" machines are still good. Unless,…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer I just read a white paper on HT. It is more flexible than I remember ... I've been going nuts with this for nearly a year now! Both RIO an HT have so much upside and are such a departure from 'normal'...…
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If I were Steve and I _really_ wanted to enter business, I do it by starting from the phrase "Sell the WHOLE widget". Where in the business world that involves a lot of IT infrastructure sorts of things. Off-site backups? Can do. Web-hosting? C…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer The SPECfp number I have for the G4 @ 1 GHz is only 184, so if it scaled linearly that would put it to 258. Gak. I got my G4 numbers from here, but 187 doesn't scale to 428 either. (262) That second …