That explains it!! Yeah if you run classic programs in MacOS X, you have to wait for OS9 to boot up and then run inside an OSX task... No wonder it worked better when you put more ram in it... you were running two OSes at the same time.
I should point out that with 1GB of memory, it starts in about 3 seconds.
Viola.
At the same clock speed it will annhilate the intel chip.
So will other x86 chips.
ppc 64 is better than intel.
So? x86 is widely available and easily holds its own against the best PPC chips available at the same cost. One thing Amigans still haven't learned yet is that the supiriority of an architecture is irrelevant if it isn't practical. I don't care about the technical supiriority of a particular chip if I have to pay $800 for an obsolete motherboard, with the constant concern if a next-gen chip or motherboard is even going to be made. Ah, the old Beta vs VHS arguement surfaces again. We should all jump off cliffs, right?
There's a ton of reasons why Apple went to x86, and the future of desktop PPC processors is very questionable. That's not supiriority.
The athlon runs hot. The core duo is the only energy efficent chip they have. The freescale chip is very thermally sound.
x86 runs hot because that's what the market demands. Performance vs power consumtion is logarithmic, so to get a small boost in performance, you need to pump in lots of power. Macs had PowerPC chips for years that had heatsinks large enough to smother a forrest fire, and they still burned your fingers. Ramp up the speed of a PPC chip, and it'll pump out lots of heat, too.
Funny how when people applaud PPC, they always compare something like a Prescott to an embedded Freescale chip. Those processors are for different markets, people. PowerPC chips run pretty damn hot, too, once you really push them. XBox 360, anyone?
OS4 and other Microkernal based preemptive multitasking cores like qnx are superior.
Microkernal design isn't really supirior. There are lots of reasons why most OSes don't use them. Low-level interface complexity comes to mind.
See this article: "Why not the Cell?" Here's why....
Cell is a bunch of DSPs attached to a single core CPU. It's good for programmable DSP stuff and not much else. Scalar performace isn't very good at all.
Don't dare say that on a gaming forum, though. ;-)
Did the Hitachi SH.x range of CPUs ever get used in the computing market?
They were used in CGI renderfarms a lot, though these days x86 dominates that field.
