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Dreaming Again (3/21/98)
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Quick little fantasy bit: Next time you're sitting around daydreaming about the Mac you'd like sitting on your desk, consider a system sporting four 300 MHz G3 processors, each with a 1 MB backside cache, running on a 100 MHz system bus with 66 MHz PCI Ultra II SCSI, an 8MB graphics card, and fast ethernet. Sound like fun? Here's the scary part: according to Mac OS Rumors, that system really exists, and is available from Phase 5 Digital Products for $4495.
"But AtAT," we hear you protest, "the G3 isn't a multiprocessing chip, so what good is a quad-G3 system?" Wrong question. The right question is, "What good is a quad-G3 Mac?" Because in addition to that $4495, this dream system will also cost you the Mac OS. Instead, it runs AmigaOS 3.1, which apparently manages to overcome the G3's multiprocessing limitations via software-- something which the Mac OS can't do.
So unfortunately this system remains a fantasy for now, at least for those of us who aren't quite willing to chuck the Mac OS for Amiga's operating system (nice as it is). We still find it strange that given the Mac's dominance in the computationally-intensive world of graphics and content creation, there are currently no serious choices for multiprocessing systems. Someday...
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And Now For A Word From Our Sponsors |
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/21/98 episode: March 21, 1998: Mac the Knife's had one too many during his Seybold jaunt in NYC, and is hallucinating $20 G3's. Meanwhile, Microsoft sponsors HP's latest move to contaminate Java in embedded systems, and there's a sweet quad-G3 system available for $4500, but you have to give up your favorite OS to use it...
Other scenes from that episode: 555: Cheaper Than Paint (3/21/98) Not that we want to impugn Mac the Knife's sobriety (as if that were humanly possible), but we strongly suspect that the edged implement sampled one too many of the local colorful delicacies during his Seybold trip to New York... 556: 94% Pure Java (3/21/98) The nightmare just never ends for Java. The latest blow comes from Hewlett-Packard, who, rather than license Sun's Java virtual machine for embedded systems, decided instead to build their own from the ground up and license it to others at a lower price than Sun charges for the "official" version...
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