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Whoh -- Somebody's ripping on Visual BASIC in a thread about HyperCard? Tell Me To Laugh Not Hard Whatever you thing about Basic as a language (it sucks, but at least it isn't ****ing stupid like HyperTalk), the point is that VB was the first …
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HyperCard could have been VisualBasic -- If Apple had focused on database drivers and client-server integration. Go back and check old issues of MacWorld where it's hyped as a proto-Form tool. However, it was never positioned that way (rumor was …
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I used this guide:
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Hobbes is right -- Apple could pay YOU $20 to take an OS X 10.2 CD and it wouldn't affect the adoption rate at all. The fact is that most people in the consumer market never upgrade their OS until they buy a new machine. There's just no incentiv…
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It's ridiculous that the 12" PowerBook doesn't have a PC Card slot. Doubly ridiculous because FW2 is coming out, and this thing is obsolete by design. This thing really is a gussed-up iBook with a premium price tag. If this thing is Pro-level kit…
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[quote]You are not talking about driving down costs. You are talking about driving down prices. Both actually. When IBM is designing a $5000 x86 workstation, do they have to design their own chipsets, memory controllers, and so on? Hell no! They…
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Anyone who thinks that the 970 is going to have any effect on the "Industry Standard Server" market (xSeries), is deluding themselves.
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RE: Firmware My understanding is that MacOS has a 'white list' of machine IDs that it will boot on. Disabling OS 9 could be as simple as updating the ID and not changing any firmware. (Much as how OS 8.x won't boot on modern hardware.) RE: Upg…
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[quote]Originally posted by snoopy: [QB] Can it be so bad having a one customer CPU? IBM is making a special for Ninetendo only. The development cost of the chip is spread over the production run. [QB] My understanding is that the Nintendo c…
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[quote]True, but he CHRP didn't fail on it's own merits. it failed because a small software company called MS decided to not support the platfrom. I don't know about "it's own merits". But nobody wanted to buy the thing and therefore neither Moto…
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A couple points about IBM and a 'Desktop' PowerPC. 1. They tried targetting PowerPC at the mainstream Intel desktop market once already in the mid-90s, and after immense hype, it was a complete and total failure. They probably didn't sell more th…
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More fuel -- there's been talk of a POWER4 'workstation' CPU coming since last year. Nobody put IBM together with Apple though, and nobody of course knew that the chip had altivec.
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I'd upgrade my Lombard if the damn ibook ever gets a PC Card slot.
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"Apple does not have the market share to warrent having a dedicated processor development team." Yup. And that completely explains G4. Think back to the early 90s. Apple had a 10-15% marketshare. Add another potential 10-20% marketshare for N…
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Daemonk -- Look at it from IBM's point of view. 1) IBM's needs PowerPC workstations so that people develop software for their profitable midrange servers. 2) Very few non-AIX devs buy these workstations. The market is so tiny that it could …
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[quote]Originally posted by Eric D.V.H: Thanks for the reply. A couple minor points -- [quote] Copland was practically done(For those whom would refute me. I point to the fact of that. mere months after being fired. the Copland team regroupe…
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[quote]Originally posted by Eric D.V.H: What "Windows PPC machines"? the _only_ PPCs that were supposed to run Windows NT were Apple licenced CHRP systems. they sold so poorly because they _didn't exist_. You got to be kidding. IBM PowerPe…
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[quote]Originally posted by Eric D.V.H: But in any case. Apple decided that Motorola would blend their new 80k chip with IBM's POWER. thusly making? the PowerPC. [...] I didn't know that Apple was so involved in the design, and thought they …
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[quote]Originally posted by Outsider: Boy, IntlHarvester , thats the best sensationalist, pessimistic, fluff, anti-PPC rant yet. How did you come to that warped conclution from the past you described? Alcohol helped! "IBM will stop using PPC …
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Just a little perpective on the RISC versus CISC wars... In the late 80s and early 90s, Sparc and MIPS were tearing up the place and the industry concensus was that it was simply impossible for CISC to scale. Billions and billions of dollars were…