Re: duplicate ops (Re: updated assembler)


"cr88192" wrote:

[HW-drivers]
....

most of the crap that usually needs emulation anyways though is things
like network cards (video cards tend to have better support,
and even the crappy old fallback support of VESA...).

one thing that would also be nice (but is unrealistic):

at least some bus-side standardization of HW interfaces, so that most
generic features of a paricular piece of hardware can be supported without
knowing the specifics (like PCI, but much more involved).

basically, not only the bus is standardized, but many common pieces of
hardware, which are used as design templates (with specific vendors going
over this, but keeping baseline compatibility if at all possible).

My long lasting idea is about setting up a new standard and bombard
all HW-manufacturers with the weight of the several thousand ranting
programmers found in all the related newsgroups.

This Programmers_Demand_Standard could be just an extension of existing
ATA,ATAPI,PCI(AGP,APMI,UDMA,USB,...),ISApNp,VESA...

DirectX was once annonced to become the missig link, but it's just
another detouring link between hw and the windoze-core.

in cases where this has existed: ATA, ATAPI,
... the results have been very good.
RTL8139 has become de-facto for 10/100 ethernet cards, but not for Gb.

Yes.


[defect?...]
dunno, any one else have issues with the NForce3 150 or 250?...
Sorry, due to lack on information I'm bound to S3 and ATI graphics.
no, this is my motherboard chipset.

I see :)
Since several years I use only MSI-cards without any problem, there
were only one (out of ~80 boards) which was damaged on transport.
....
newer boards seem to demand PCI-E cards afaik.
My newest (AMD64, bought this year) still got an 200 MHz AGP-slot,
but I never buy brand-new brands, I always let others test it first :)
looking around recently, some boards still use AGP, this is good, maybe.
feeling tempted by this:
Athlon X2, AM2, or such...;
some or another MOBO;
2-4GB/ram (ram is fairly cheap vs other things it seems, but it is a
speed/cost/capacity tradeoff, me more biased twards capacity than speed);
new video card (the ones I am using are rather dated now);
...

Mobiles are a bit different to desktop machines, perhaps your OS isn't
aware of it and/or turn some hardware into standby too early.

when?
dunno...

total cost?
dunno, depends.
maybe somewhere around 600-800 for the parts I want
(or, at least, this is a "reasonable" budget).

(of course, personally, I could use more money in the bank as well, if I
payed for it myself this would be a not exactly minor dent...).

:) Oh yeah, unfortunately money wont grow on trees ...
__
wolfgang



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