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Quote: Originally Posted by PBG4 Dude Haven't been to AI in quite some time, surprised I remembered my login details. Ditto.
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Quote: Originally posted by quagmire Exactly. It doesn't use an Intel Xenon CPU. It uses the IBM PPC chip that is called Xenon. It is a triple core 3.2 Ghz PPC. Just do a bit of searching around ai and macrumors. You will find the specs of it. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Well, it is either PPE or Power6. Actually, there's at least one more contender.
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Quote: Originally posted by THT Heh. The 970gx, 970mx roadmap is interesting. Was it IBM's roadmap before they moved to the PPU core in the Cell as the PPC CPU core of the future, or was IBM willing to do them concurrently? What makes you thin…
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Quote: Originally posted by strobe Unfortunately the Finder in Tiger still isn't notified of all changes. For example if I delete a large file in a folder which is NOT displayed, the free space info in the Finder window won't change until clicked…
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Quote: Originally posted by strobe Again, the KERNEL is at fault for a lot of this, not the Finder or the ISA. For example, where is kqueue/kevent? These functions allow programs to be notified when other things happen, like filesystem changes. T…
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Quote: Originally posted by wizard69 Well we aren't talking about HPC, instead we where talking about OS/X'es feel on intel hardware. Specifically that it feels much faster. I still don't see any indication that the primary cause for this…
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Quote: Originally posted by strobe Perhaps you don't think this is a big deal because faster CPUs will run this bloated sack of crap faster. However, due to the schizophrenic nature of XNU, SMP performance sucks and this will only get worse with …
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Quote: Originally posted by wizard69 There is sure to be some optimization for i86 but that really isn't where the advantage is. i86 just has the performance advantage with in the CPU where it matters. That is it's integer capability and the…
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Quote: Originally posted by BenRoethig That and 99.99% of all programs are written to be optimized for x86 processors anyway. I'm fairly sure the vast majority of programs are not optimized for any particular processor at all (except for the …
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer BSD includes file system, communications, and memory management support. If these perform better on x86 hardware you would see a small across-the-board improvement. I still doubt that much of this is rea…
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Quote: Originally posted by Chucker Actually, I recall comments at WWDC that the newer FreeBSD base helped improve multiprocessing. I could be wrong. I think this probably was something along the lines of "helped improve performance on MP sys…
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod Multi-processor support, most likely. Although FreeBSD has been slower than other OSs in terms of that. With 6.x, things do seem better however. Not that it has any impact on where Apple is now going. AFA…
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Quote: Originally posted by melgross That's true, but IBM has other product lines, and is even expanding them. We were talking about PowerPC and POWER servers, and AFAIK IBM only offers POWER/PPC processors on i- and pSeries servers (with the …
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Quote: Originally posted by melgross You know what I mean. I said that they have their own. They sell other OS;s other than their own as well. Novell, Windows, Linux. Others over the years as well. That only really applies to xSeries, for whic…
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Quote: Originally posted by melgross IBM is OS neutral. Uh, ever heard of i5/OS, AIX or z/OS?
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Quote: Originally posted by melgross That's true, but IBM only had it for it's own OS's. Of course it only works for operating systems that actually run on their hardware, but that should include Linux as well.
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Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman 1.the promise of xen, wine, crossover, darwine,is that the file system is seamless. a pc file say notepad.exe is right there, you can see it in the mac os finder, drag it anywhere you like, etc. so, better t…
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Quote: Originally posted by bikertwin OK, maybe I'm using the terminology wrong or I'm misunderstanding something, but... Windows running in a VM on a dual-core Intel machine is a very different beast from Virtual PC running on a G3/G4/G5 Mac.…