I think that Intel has always lagged somewhere in the back of the CPU pack
when it came to innovation, power consumption, and pricing (for "current"
CPUs). But the theory/promise of RISC couldn't beat the reality of Intel's
CISC push. Intel has consistently thrown $ after $ to make CISC as fast as
RISC, and the other RISC vendors just couldn't keep up with Intel's raw
manufacturing capability. The Sparc, the AlphaAXP, the PowerPC, the MiPS
all smoked anything Intel could make at any point in history, but Intel
compensates with business practices over technical ones, and then their
chips are cheaper and "good enough", and the market follows.
I personally would have liked to see Apple snap up the AlphaAXP platform
from Compaq. Apple could have stayed RISC (AXP was also 64-bit years
before PowerPC was) and had the fastest CPU platform on the planet.
However, I recently read that there is an Intel CPU reference platform
that supports hardware DRM. Apple could make "vPods" and set-top boxes
based on the Mini (not to mention desktops/notebooks) that satisfy the
MPAA, and make $ for Apple the same way iPods have done with audio.
Now, for something classic-Mac-related. I have a Dayna ethernet adapter
that connects to the SCSI port on my MacTV (running 7.5.5). What do I need
to do to get it to pick up a DHCP address and access an FTP server on my
(TCP/IP-only) LAN?
Thanks.
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