Re: [cobalt-users] The Apple Raq

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IM> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 18:16:34 +0100
IM> From: ISEE Multimedia


IM> The apple machines are designed for graphic and video
IM> production. They always have been and probably always will!!

Let's see... video production requires low bus latency and high
bandwidth.  That sounds familiar.

I drool over 12-way UltraSPARC III-based servers with 8 MB of
cache per CPU.  They're built for server duty, but would make
supreme video editting machines.

About the only thing that graphics machines need that servers
don't is SIMD/MIMD instructions.  Although I even use MMX
instructions in server apps, and will likely use VIS when I start
writing assembly for SPARC-native programs... so even "graphics"
instructions are useful on servers.


IM> Why do you need a ATI PCI Graphics card optional ATI Raedon
IM> 8500 AGP 4x in a Web server??

Server admins playing Quake?  (Not a gamer, so I wouldn't know,
but it sounds plausible...)


--
Eddy

Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national
Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence

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