StealthRainFox

The straw that broke the camel's back was the Apple/Intel annoucement. Conventional wisdom was if either Intel or AMD was going to have chips in Macs, it would be AMD for many reason(64-bit chips, collaboration on HyperTransport, image of the most powerful CPUs, etc). Since AMD got shut out of that, they had enough, and are claiming monopoly(if the Dept. of Justice can't get M$, how are they going to get Intel?).

Based on the allegations, this is how the Intel/Apple negotiations went.

Intel: Steve, I hear you keep a build of OS X on x86.

Jobs: Yeah, why?

Intel: We want you to switch to Pentium 4 processors.

Jobs: We're not interested. We're sticking with the PowerPC.

Intel: IBM made you look like an idiot, with your 3GHz by 2004 prediction.

Jobs: They gave us a roadmap, they just have been a little busy making chips for game consoles.

Intel: Wouldn't you like to finally break away from "The MegaHertz Myth"?

Jobs: We've done a good job dispelling that myth.

Intel(losing patience): Steve, we want you to change to our processors.

Jobs: N...

Intel rep opens a brief case, full of $100 bills, with a P4 chip sitting on top of the bills.

Intel: You will switch to the P4.

"But the warning was in the basement, in the bottom of the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet, in an un-used lavatory with a placard stating "Beware of Leopard."

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Hi everybody,

People actually read my babble, coolness, thanks. (-:

Well I might be getting employment at a laundry service place = Money to build AMD TerraServer with
(see last post for Tyan board specs)

It has Opterons and nVidia SLI Support

- Multiple processors (AMD Opterons)
- Support for Multi Cored Opterons
- Multiple Video cards with load balancing (for fast frame rates and physics calculations.)

on another topic

The bad news :
TV sucks it looks like the FCC's digital broadcast flag is back in the senate in an omnibus bill.

The good news :
People are starting to do their own shows online using Bit Torrent http://www.bittorrent.com/

Systm
http://systm.org/

The Broken
http://thebroken.org/

This looks interesting.

http://tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html

June 21st is my birthday. 21 Yay (I think?)

bored stiff. . .

drinking Lipton tea.

don't think anybody reads this babbling anymore?