Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:37:01 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Apple]RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <p05100309b751aaf279bd@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <20010616201230.8910.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010616201230.8910.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 1:12 PM -0700 6/16/01, Bzdik BSD wrote: > What do you make of the chipset? I think it's a bit outdated and they > could benefit tremendously from the power of PPC CPU if they catch up > on this one. Just what are you talking about? Apple is already using the PPC CPU -- just what benefit do *you* expect them to achieve if they continue to use it? Myself, I see that IBM is clearly one of the most innovative companies in the business of chip fabrication (witness their ground-breaking achievements with silicon-on-insulator, and the recent announcement regarding strained silicon), and they are clearly committed to remaining a world leader in this respect. Indeed, of all the other companies in the business, it would seem to me that it is Intel that is starting to show signs of serious signs of cracking under pressure, what with all their problems launching Merced/IA-64 (just how many years have we been talking about this?), the fact that they were forced to come out with the Pentium 4 (yeah, I think they do need an "IV" ;-) to try and deal with the resulting shortfall, and the fact that re-worked versions of the older Pentium III chip are outperforming it, too. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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