[geeks] Ultra 20 thoughts

[Kurt Huhn]

On Jul 4, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Sat, 02 Jul 2005 @ 18:07 -0400, Kurt Huhn said:
>
>> On Jul 2, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>
>>> I can build a PC with excellent power supplies, HT busses, PCI-X,
>>> multiple CPUs...
>>>
>>
>> I'm sure, but you end up with a peecee in the end.
>
> Yes, but that has nothing to do with the limitations in question.
>

Perhaps, from your point of view.  I was really only responding the 
fact that Sun is selling a bog-standard peecee and charging a premium 
for their nameplate and (admitedly attractive) case.  The fact that, no 
matter what crap you add on to it, a peecee is still a peecee, is what 
I was getting at.
>

> The modern PC looks more like an Apple than a PC/AT, except for that
> horrible BIOS.
>

Not quite, man.  You should really look at the major differences there. 
  The Apple G5 is quite dissimilar from PC in terms of architecture.

>
> There is no reason for most of the PC legacy hardware to exist in
> emulation, it's a largely artificial requirement, and that includes the
> stupid BIOS.
>

Bingo.  Never mind the processors....

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