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Next PowerPC To Support Multiple OS's?
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MacNeXT said:
Well MIPS really isn't dead, it just hasn't had much money put into it for the past 3-4 years. SGI still sells MIPS boxes and the processor is used in misc embedded apps. I also recall a foreign company making MIPS boxes as well. In terms of maintaining non-x86 ports it really wouldn't be an issue if they never actually stopped maintaining them. I mean after all very little assembly had been added in the new versions. Almost (if not) everything has been coded in c++. C++ is a rather portable language. I'm not saying they are maintaining the ports. Just that if they never stopped maintaining them internally then releasing a port of whatever current OS would be rather simple.
As for HAL, it's still there in XP. It's just better hidden during install and startup.
alfismoney said:
Do you honestly believe OS X is a severely hacked BSD? Come on... Would you have called SunOS 1-4x a severely hacked BSD? I mean after all it wasn't fully compatible with Berkeley's BSD but it was a fully licensed code base. And for you linux freaks out there that think SCO Unix (yeah yeah they are on crack with the IP stuff but they still make/made a good product), Solaris, OS X, or AIX aren't *real* UNIX systems you are sorely mistaken. Maybe you should research what makes a BSD/UNIX system what it is. The two are slightly different but mostly the same. Just because a configuration is handled one place instead of another doesn't mean it's improper. As for stability, I can say there are instances where a) the finder freezes for no reason and forces a hard boot and b) system panicks and goes bye bye. I have no idea what causes the first but it should never happen. We rely on finder to be able to fix any problem that may come up with a process. If finder goes stupid a reboot is forced. I honestly think that OS X should provide better access to the command line during start-up. I was fighting with OS X Server for an hour over constant reboots during startup until I remembered how to get to the command line during boot. This shouldn't be an issue, especially on a server OS. Once I was booted into a command line it was a 5 minute fix of a corrupted database. Go figure.
dlisle20 said:I'll be able to run windows and OSX!!! so i can use windows for games and os x for video! that's great news!!
yes that would be nice to have several paltform's on on computer, but i think that there will be less speed on the xp side since there has to be some kind of emulating for the cpu to run xp
just found this link over at AI about a semiconductor company's Macintosh prototype.
/http://www.articasemi.com/page1.htm
Drool!
Linux and MacOs
Would it really be a good idea using both Linux and MacOs... seems how most hackers and viruses are executed by Linux users... kinda makes me leery of using it. Any thoughts?
Would it really be a good idea using both Linux and MacOs... seems how most hackers and viruses are executed by Linux users... kinda makes me leery of using it. Any thoughts?
There's no way Apple will support another OS on a Mac, period. This would do nothing but dilute the brand and cause a lot of support issues. I know a bit about this technology and, unlike a complete virtual machine approach ala VPC or VMware, the approach being described here requires modification of the guest OS kernel.
Can you tell me about Yellow Dog Linux? Like is it free, and how I could use a seperate partition to use it? And how I can go from OSX to Linux after I have it partitioned? And what are the advantages, can you use Windows programs on Linux? And anything else useful... because I can respond to what you tell me, reading their site online is slightly over my head
~Shard~ said:
The most interesting aspect of the dual-core is the better power management. Full and half speed x one or two cores = 4 speed variations.
I hope that they go for more like 32 speed variations so that the machine can maximize battery life even better than that. It should have a 1/16th speed for each core. For some tasks that is plenty of power. Two cores each at 3GHz / 16 / 2 (cores) = one G4 at 187 MHz. Yes, some of you will say that is too slow to do anything but if you're just doing word processor or email it will do the job.
That could mean much longer battery life on the road. Start listening to iTunes at the same time and it bumps up the the next speed (G4 @ 375MHz) which does the job - my daughter uses a 266MHz iBook with OS X and it runs just fine for most things.
Of course, when you need it the machine could ramp up to two cores at 3GHz and really crank. But you don't need that all the time.
_Miraculous__ said:Can you tell me about Yellow Dog Linux? Like is it free, and how I could use a seperate partition to use it? And how I can go from OSX to Linux after I have it partitioned? And what are the advantages, can you use Windows programs on Linux? And anything else useful... because I can respond to what you tell me, reading their site online is slightly over my head
Actually you can run OS X and OS X apps on top of Linux right now without needing this CPU.
Check out MaconLinux. It run OS X and OS X apps at almost native speeds ontop of Linux.