@Speulgoudmannegie
You wrote:
Do I hear cursing in the church?
Where's the custom chipset? where's the dedicated h/w? where's the Motorola chips? Where are the innovative attributes?
You'r dammed right, you know.
On a general view: there is no such a thing like STANDARD HARDWARE. All hardware, except mechanical parts in general, are proprietary to some extent. *ALL* video chips are designed for the x86 architecture. PCI busses and its derived successors were invented by Intel, hence out-of-the-box suitable ONLY for x86 architecture. x86 probably is the only of the LitleEndian variety, all other rely on Big Endianism. PCI is therefore suitable only for LitleEndian based systems without inflicting a loss of performance.
If one wants that socalled Standard Hardware, which, simply put, is absolutely nothing more than proprietary hardware for one single kind of processor and only one family of OS's, then one should stick to that hardware/software-kludge !
The ONLY way as I see it is the use of specific hardware, built to do the job as the OS intends it to do on the processor it is designed for! Do like Wintel: go for proprietary hardware! Only that way you can show off the potential of the H/W & S/W combo.
If it is all to expensive for you than go for the Wintel solution and be content with it, but than don't complain of its sluggishness, its incompatability with former releases, the nesseccity to upgrade every now and then, the need to stamp out virusses and trojans and their ilk 24/7.
But when you want something very different, be in the vanguard of the computing scene, than be prepaired to pay a stiff price.
Standard hardware. There ain't no such a thing! Keep that in mind.
Regards,
Tjitte
P.s. Speelgoedmannetje, I'll buy you a beer someday. Hefe-weiss bier wasn't it?
