Re: TI-H: heh

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Re: TI-H: heh


This is all exactly why x86 has 90% of the market, right? And also it is why
Steve Jobs had to stoop so low to show that G3 was better than PII using
non-scientific bullshit tests, right?

> 
> >Actually, it's my opinion that the hardware isn't the problem, but the os
as
> >far as macs go... MacOS crashes more often than Linux in my experience
> >(unless you're running the most recent devel kernel, but that's yer own
> >fault if it crashes). And it doesn't surprise me that Linux runs faster
on
> >the PPC. It is a faster system. And for years people have used RISC to
> >emulate CISC.
> 
> Maybe that Mac system was not setup properly.  :)
> http://applecyber.dyndns.com hasn't ever gone down (I've only had it up
for
> 7 months now), and I use beta www server software.
> 
> >Granted, if the processor was running in it's native mode, it
> >would probably be about 10 times faster than when it's emulating (which
> >makes me wonder why most PPC programs still aren't native RISC). Oh, and
> >about grant's little "add proc to temp" well, on my intel chip, i can go
adc
> >eax,ebx to add ebx to eax...you just twisted the argument by showing the
> >extra code required to fill both registeres would would also be required
in
> >the RISC chip. Anyway, i'm done.
> 
> Nope.
> 
> add	temp, proc
> 
> adds temp and proc and stores the result in temp.  Thats the goal.
> 
> We don't want to use the standard registers.  So we have to store temp to
> the accumulator, then add proc to it, and store it to temp.
> 
> I was using the Z80 and PPC as an example anyway...  The Z80 is a rip of
> the intel chip.
> 
> There are tons of MacOS applications that are written natively for the
PPC.
> But they have to be made 5 years ago or after.
> 
> Hmmm...  Here is a real life processing example.  A 60MHz PPC 601 can
play
> 3 MP3s at the same time without skipping.  I would pay to see an intel do
> the same.
> 
> >
> >
> >>You're probably not going to beleive this, but Power Macs don't run
> >>Macintosh software...they emulate it.  Only on realy new programs are
they
> >>actually written for the processor.  Apple's emulation engine runs on
DEC,
> >>and HP workstations. So, since the MacOS boots on a DEC, PPC, and HP
those
> >>are all bad computers!  No...
> >>
> >>Grant
> >>
> 

-dan

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You believing the lies?
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You've Got a Bullet in Your Head.




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