Re:TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)


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Re:TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)




Lets see


On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Rosyna wrote:

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Firewire - Almost completely useless

USB - Got that

ADB - Who cares how the keyboard and mouse are controlled

SCSI (some models) - I can easlily get a scsi card built in, or one in a
pci slot I can upgrade if I wanted to move from Ultra to Ultra2, or Ultra3
later on

Ethernet 10/100 - Generic ones can be had for less than $30, name braod
for less than $100

a 3d accelaration that is faster than the Voodoo2 - There are plenty of
those available for the pc now.  The Voodoo3 2000 is $80 or so and can run
circles around the voodoo2, a tnt2 ultra can easily outrun a voodoo2 SLI.

a Speech Synthesis that works, Speech Recognition that works - Thats an
issue of software, and a feature most people wouldn't use if they had it
anyways

, system-level scripting and of course security - Use linux, freebsd,
netbsd, openbsd, solaris x86, BeOS, OS/2, SCO or any other non-ms OS and
you have that covered.

None of the Melissa, WormExplorer stuff for me - Me either, linux is
great!

The MacOS has matured, that's why there are two releases every year, for 
 maturity. - Again, I will agree that windows is a piece of shit, but
it does its job.


I could sell you a 1950 Datsun or a BMW 540i, which has 
 more? (The proportional price is not valid, I am giving an extreme 
 example.) - What, the fact I can get a dual celeron or Dual PIII for less
than a G3 is not valid?  It may not help in games, but there are plenty of
things that will speed up with dual procs.  You can expect to see about
80% of the perforance of the second proc, and it will work in quake 3, for
you gamers. :)


Now you give me examples. - The x86 arch is old, and should die, but its
doing fine for the time bin until a 64 bit standard is out.  These days,
the core does run RISC, all 6th gen x86 procs do.  They convert the CISC
to RISC and then run the instruction.  One of the main successes of the
x86 arch is how scalable it is.  If Apple ever allowed other companies to
make macs again, I believe it would help them.  A nice thing about PC's is
you can buy a soundcard and transfer it to your next machine and not have
to pay for something you already have.  Another thing is the ability to
upgrade parts without having to get a new machine, like video, sound,
scsi, etc.  If the mac platform was more expanable, and cheaper, it would
have been a lot more successful.





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