"Simon P. Lucy" wrote:
>
> At 13:17 05/04/2001 -0400, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>
> >Gervase Markham wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well -- Technically speaking the Power PC chip is equivalent to double
> > > > its Pentium III equivalent because its a RISC Chip as opposed to a CISC
> > > > chip which a Pentium mostly is. (I been told Pentium is a hibrid)
> > >
> > > For an engineer, that's a shocking trivialisation and misrepresentation of
> > > the difference between RISC and CISC (in terms of relative speed of one
> > > over the other.) :-)
> > >
> > > Gerv
> >
> >Shocking but true. read some back issues of MacWorld.
>
> I wouldn't necessarily use MacWorld as a reliable guide to processor
> design. From hearsay (and I admit its such), one of the drawbacks to a Mac
> as a developer machine is that its I/O throughput is horrible, which just
> means builds take even longer. Complete Mozilla builds can be compared to
> the effort required to lift a facing stone up the side of Cheops' Pyramid
> on a reasonable workstation as it is.
>
> >Also, true UNIX is designed exclusively to work most efficiently on a
> >RISC Processor.
>
> That PDP-8 must have been a figment of my imagination then.
>
> >The original PowerPC Chip (in the 6100/7100/8100) were based on a RISC
> >Chip from a UNIX Workstation.
> >
> >So OS-X which is basically BSD 4.4 UNIX will fly.
> >
> >So you can run UNIX natively on a Mac, the Mac OS Natively, and Windows
> >either through a Card or emulator Software. So a Mac can run three
> >different operating system's.
>
> I wouldn't get hung up on operating systems too much, it doesn't much
> matter which OS it is, the Mac is quite radically different in a lot of
> areas, including user expectation of the interface (OS-X
> included). Keyboard and mouse arrangements are different for
> example.
On the MacAlley Extended USB keyboard which I use, there is only one
extra key (different than a Windows keyboard) called a Command Key. It
has a Cloverleaf symbol. we use that the same as PC's use the Control Key.
As for the Mouse, typically we have gotten use to a one button mouse
although we can use a two , or three button Mouse, or even a Mouse with
a thumbwheel, or a trackball with no problem. The help system is setup
so it not necessary to use the mouse.
> Plus, the availability of OS-X isn't likely to increase the
> number of users on its own, though it will make it easier for existing Mac
> developers to continue development so long as they are already using X. It
> will still be true though that to develop for a Mac, you'll need a Mac.
Only for the aqua interface. which will be "Somewhat" similar to
X-Windows in Unix.
> Simon
>
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