I'm glad I didn't start anything! Although I really enjoy "smooth" graphics, my reason for being interested in YDL is as a stepping-stone to Cell processor development. For me, the processor architecture is 90% of my reason for choosing a platform - my interest in Macs in 1984 was due to their using a 68000, a CPU I greatly appreciated after doing some assembly language programming on it (I am an old PDP-11 assembly programmer and I loved its regular, elegant instruction set and the contrast between 68k/PPC and x86 couldn't be greater). I also loved the vector unit of the G4/G5 and used it to great advantage in one of my scientific apps (an optical ray-tracing program).
Apple's switch was a big shock - a beautiful machine (particularly the G5s and recent powerbooks), inside and out, received a "heart transplant" which was ugly through and through (it really is an aesthetic thing for me). I am therefore putting a lot of hope in the PS3/YDL marriage, though I am perhaps being a bit unrealistic. It has a lot going for it: the best chip makers in the business and a hardware platform which will probably outsell any Apple product in a few years since it is targeted to consumers in a very lucrative market (games). Initial response to the Cell (particularly from scientific programmers) has been very favorable. It is nice to see some interesting innovation in a very staid business and I am keeping my fingers crossed (I don't expect any significant innovation from Intel/Microsoft). Sorry for the length of my diatribe. -wn On Oct 31, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Norberto Quintanar wrote: > You didn't. Derick has a way of making things way more complicated > than they need to be. I think PPC is the best architecture out there > also, but I'm not going to run out and buy a game console so I can > run YDL. I think you get that point. Wouldn't you prefer to have > YDL, an after market OS, run on your current hardware out of the box? > Versus, you having to buy a new piece of hardware? So you can > "enjoy" accelerated graphics? > > --- Warren Nagourney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Sorry, I didn't mean to precipitate a flame war. I am using YDL >> because it supports the only interesting (to me) architecture out >> there: PowerPC. After reading some IBM docs, I have become very >> excited by the Cell - it seems to be ideal for some of my >> scientific >> apps and it is delightful that a modestly-priced game console maker >> >> is making a Cell system with fast graphics available to the general >> >> public with the support of a well-thought-of linux distribution. >> All >> of this might flop - it is too early to say. I am at present >> cautiously optimistic, though (and I'm fed up with Apple and OSX, >> thought the latter works reasonably well on my various machines). >> >> -wn >> > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business > (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com) > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
