>hahaa (^_^) 1Ghz FSB, what a waste of time when the Ram is limited
>to 400Mhz
Except that Apple is actually using a dual channel architecture, giving it a bandwidth of 6.4GB.
>>You say that apple will switch over to the end of the x86
>>architecture. I find that impoosibly hard to believe.
>>You will find x86 architecture is way past its use by date, I think
>>you will see a change the other way.
>
>So is PowerPC, it was designed and still is designed with dependancy
>upon the 68k processor (check the lastest designed you'll not find
>they build it into the core itself)
This is so wrong! PowerPC is based on the IBM Power architecture. In fact, the first PowerMac mainboards had the entire Power chipset(2 chips) from IBM, with a Motorola logo painted on.
What you are misunderstanding is that even after the introduction of the PowerMac, MacOS was not ported completely to the PowerRISC architecture, so Apple built in a M68K software emulator that some parts of the OS actually ran on, while the rest of the OS were compiled to native PPC.
This worked so well in fact, that you could use instructions from both instruction-sets in an application.
>Though this G5 64Bit Processor is impressive, just goto the Intel >and AMD sites, checkout thier Itainium & Optiron speeds against
>thier own processor ... they make this processor look like Chicken
>feed. They have greater support, and even beside thier more complex
>architecture they also are alot simpler to program for - i mean
>although they have like 250 opcodes each one does do something you
>want and you can combine them in sequences rather than the other
>processors which require alot more care and thought.
X86 easier to code for than PPC RISC?
Please explain!
>the 68k processor was awesome in its day, personally i hope that
>sometime soon they get back to redeveloping a chip based on that
>rather than PPC. If you ever look at the older Amgia's you'd
>probably understand why too.
Could you please explain what you mean by that... I am serious! This statement is really interesting on so many levels!
Which 68K would you 'redevelop'?
Andy