Since this is a wildly OT thread:
http://www.fxguide.com/article313.html&mode=nested
enjoy,
Jef
Hollis, Mark (NBC Universal) wrote:
There is a version of the DS that is designed for training purposes
and I have seen Avid people and Avid trainers using it on laptops.
Certainly without the hardware, a DS is about as useless for
post-production as a donkey.
Apple's system BIOS is presently mostly in _software_, not hardware. A
long time ago, Apple collaborated with IBM on using the Power PC chip
for a platform that could run either Apple's OS or IBM's OS. It was
called the PReP or PowerPC Reference Platform, later called Common
Hardware Reference Platform or CHRP. This platform mandated that the
BIOS be placed into the operating system so that the computer could
run either operating system. The Power PC chip could be "little
endian" or "big endian" in accordance with its bootup instructions.
So I would imagine that you won't be seeing a BIOS chip being the
preventer per se. BIOS chips run too slowly for today's
microprocessors anyway. I think what they'll do is have certain,
specialized hardware and a dongle on the mainboard that the OS will
look for on bootup.
In a sense, Apple _is_ competing with Microsoft, but in ways you
aren't thinking about. Were Microsoft to try to sell music, they'd be
a "johnny-come-lately" to Apple's iTunes Music Store and even then,
their offerings might not work with the dominant digital music player,
Apple's iPod. They're not really going head-to-head in their operating
system because Apple's main concentration is in hardware, which is
where they make the most of their money. I do not think that they're
all that interested in re-opening the Clone issue.
Today, if you have a Mac, you cannot use certain graphics cards. You
cannot use just anyone's SCSI card or ATA disk controller. All require
ROM chips that are specific to the Mac. You can flash some:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/graphics/flash_PC_geforce2mx.html but the
ROM chips have to be big enough to take the larger programs required
by a Macintosh. That's another issue that Apple may take advantage of.
Apple can make it so expensive to hack a pee cee to run Apple's OS
that one might as well purchase a Macintosh from Apple.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of
Dom Q. Silverio
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:03 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]
Mark - I don't know. From what I heard it was running on
software mode only - file import and export where operational.
I guess good for college kids to learn the application? I
don't know.
The dongle theory for OS X86 is probably through the system
BIOS. But even that is not safe since BIOS hacking is common
in the gamers/mod world.
Although, there are theories that actually might pan out well
for Apple. Their backdoor way to compete with MS?
Dom Q. Silverio
editor
---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:23:33 -0500
>From: "Hollis, Mark (NBC Universal)" <Mark.Hollis(at)nbcuni.com>
>Subject: RE: Apple on Intel [was Re: Poll]
>To: "'DS(at)Softimage.COM'" <DS(at)Softimage.COM>
>
> I'd say that Apple's OS will want to know too much
> about the machine before installation. It may be
> cracked but not easily.
>
> And how many DSs are out there actually running on
> non-Avid hardware?
>
Dom Q. Silverio
Editor
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