----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vintage Macs" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:44 AM Subject: Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???
> > > > > > 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. > x86 has been RISC since the Pentium Pro came out in the early 90's (RISC core with hardware to convert CISC instructions). Sure allot of chips smoked the x86 for a brief period of time, but nothing beat it for very long and none could compete on price. I think what makes a Mac a Mac is the tightly integrated OS used. My favorite Macs are of course the 68k ones, back when Apple spent allot of effort on hardware design and not just marketing. 68K's had a decent GUI, hardware was PnP, Nubus was faster then ISA, ram could be expanded much more then x86 machines, A/V was common, built in SCSI, ADB worked well, serial ports screamed, networking built in, etc. The latest Macs are x86 clones with a PPC G5 put in to be different.. well that had to go to. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
