bigD wrote:
Ow! This reminds me of when consumer level desktop publishing got big in the mid 80s with the Mac Plus. Newsletters with twenty different fonts on one page....ugh!
And 18 of them are those that are known as "garbage fonts" (there are other, less prejudicial names, but the fact remains that they were designed for occasional display use).
Intel definitely has the technological/engineering knowhow, but they let marketing have way too much power. AMD has their "bang head on wall" times as well - chiefly when they take the attitude of "we did something neat! Now we don't need to do anything for the next 4 years!".
AMD is nice in that there is much less feature disabling to "segment" the processors - i.e. they don't disable the virtualization capacity on some models. Once it's in it's in. The downside is that the chipsets don't seem to be quite as good in most cases.
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J5600, 2 x Mac, 3 x SUN, Alpha DS20E, Alpha 800 5/550, 3 x RS/6000, Amiga 4000 VideoToaster, Amiga4000 -030, 733MHz Sam440 AmigaOS 4.1 update 1.