Re: Mike and Ward, what next?

On 17 Jun 2005 13:52:57 -0700, "Erik" <groups@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Referencing Slashdot again, I think there was some mention of the fact
>that Cell is really not heading in the direction of desktop computing.
>Something about how it doesn't do out-of-order branching or indexing or
>some-such.  Basically, it's heavily aimed in a specific direction that
>game platforms can take advantage of, but not desktop computers.
>Besides, aren't the Apple PPC CPUs and Cells both derivatives of IBM's
>POWER CPUs?  If it weren't for the expense and heat issues, I could see
>Apple being all over that.

For all we know cell  may herald a significant padigm ****ft... It's a
simpler POWER chip yes, and not much out-of-ordering's not a big deal,
Could be wrong, but PPC's I believe have  less out of ordering anyway
compared to intel chips to begin with.

Good compilers/asm programmers can make up this difference to some
extent I guess. 

>I think the Cell processor is going to be in every major console coming
>out soon.  Personally I'm wondering when someone will come out with a
>"Hack the XBox" redux.

Think they have some multicore 970 for the xbox not the cell, but
that's quibbling. 

I'd probably see Cell in To****ba CAT scanners soon - apparently an
unnamed biomedical company has already adopted cell for its diagnostic
imaging stuff. Probably To****ba :)

>> One thing good about this whole apple debacle.
>>
>> Wait 2 years and you will get a notebook computer with a pretty
>> exceptional build quality, will run OS X AND Windoze.
>
>I hope not.  The Windows part, I mean.  Dual-booting seems so against
>the grain on a Mac (and a lot of people seem to be drooling over the
>idea)...  Virtual PC I can see, though. 


Ah, remember what Bruce (Lee) said. Adopt what's useful, junk what's
useless to attempt to paraphrase him!

Use a Mac. Use a PC, use them for what they are. It's only a PC... 

Apple does smart things... Apple ][ (yeah!).... Objective C is soooo
much nicer than C++... G5... well kinda... 

Apple constantly does stupid things too, like one button mice, dumping
BeOS before it got a fair chance, bloating up OS X with too much eye
candy stuff...  Stupid laptop battery tricks....  bad customer
sup****t.. lots....

Cheers

Rob