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because of a few reasons:
a.Most of intel's development team is busy in developing Merced(Note:this is a speculation only, not a fact), their 64-bit chip, that will be out only on the next year, so don't expect for big news this year.
b.Intel will not come with a technology that will raise the performance of computers rapidly, for the simple reason that although intel made the first microprocessor, the technology for the i586 is mostly stolen from digital.btw:i personally think that intel should be broken down by the U.S. government, because of stealing technology from digital.
c.while intel will work on Merced, Cyrix and AMD will release better and faster processors.while AMD will come with it's K6+3D, with 3D extensions and fully pipelined FPU(which is being used by some intel-optimized programs), Cyrix will hit with the MXi, an improved version of the MediaGX, their integrated processor, with 4X AGP,3D acceleration, fully pipelined FPU and dual MMX.
as we all know, intel warns us from "faked cpu's", which are, according to intel's claim, i586 sold overclocked.
well, if intel would want to fight the "fake cpu's", they can do a very simple thing.every processor can identify itself, probably by using a some kind of a ROM on-chip.now, in i586, in the model field you will find only "Pentium 60", "Pentium 66" and "Pentium 75+".so, intel can fight the "fake cpu's", but for some kind of reason, they don't want to
I apologize in front of Intel that i said here that there are no faked i586's, i was wrong.
why?intel's chipset's don't support bus speeds beyond 66MHz. SiS,VIA and others do.
many people claim that Cyrix's FPU(Floating Point Unit)is slower than intel.that's not correct.it's a matter of optimization.
intel's CPU is optimized for applications who heavily use the FPU, like quake, while cyrix is optimized for applications who use mixed mode, i.e. applications who use both integer and floating point, which includes most of the applications
not many people know it, but the reason that intel's 8086 was the choice of IBM, was not because it was better.actually, the Motorola's 68000 was much better from the 8086, and the reason that the 8086 came with the IBM-PC was that IBM had license to market it, and BTW, even today, Motorola's PowerPC chips are better than intel.
there are rumors that there are incompatibility problems with cyrix's chips.
nonsense.cyrix have a full x87 instructions set, and except a problem with winnt, which was fixed, and some programs that see cyrix just as a fast 486, and it can be fixed btw, there are no problems.
BUT with spacewalker's mainboards there are problems with cyrix and windows, but if you will look at www.spacewalker.com you'll see that there is a way to fix it
because people think that intel is good,and computer resellers just like to say to their customers:"This computer contains an original intel chip", and put this awful sticker:"intel inside".
some people don't know it,but there are alternatives to Intel:cyrix and amd. both cost about 50% than intel's chips(intel are going to drop their prices in 50%,but i believe it's because a newer chip).Amd's chips performance are better than intel's chip in 32-bit applications,and cyrix performance are better than both intel and amd,and cyrix 6x86MX 180MHz CPU's performance is close to Pentium II 266MHz
for a few years, intel took high prices for it's products.actually,both amd's and cyrix's were 50% cheaper than intel's cheap.because of that, and some other reasons, many people thought that intel had the best chips.
worse,most people don't know that there are cheap alternatives for intel,and every computer that didn't have the "intel inside" sticker was "bad computer". now,when people understand that cyrix's and amd's chip have better performance,and they are cheaper as well,intel drop the prices in order to crush amd and cyrix,and take over the cpu's field. this proves that intel took high prices for nothing.
well,here are some nice stories Microsoft,things that Microsoft doesn't want you to know
22 states at last started to to something against Microsoft, and are going to request from Microsoft to make a few changes in Memphis if they want to distrub it or they will go to the court
The most important of them is that Microsoft should distrub Netscape with Memphis in order to keep on the competition
Microsoft's supporters say that doing that will hurt U.S's economy.i wonder how much damage Microsoft caused to the economy because of their well known Windows crashes
According to The Support Group for People Used by Microsoft
Microsoft was having a plan to improve it's image in the public, not by an advertising blitz, but by paying people to write positive letters about Microsoft for computer magazinesMicrosoft denied, but than admitted that they had a plan but it was just a proposal and not something they are really going do to
That's right, after it was exposed, Microsoft will not use, but even if it was a proposal only, how can a major company to even write such a plan on the paper?
I knew that it will happen one day.while Bill Gates demonstrated to the world the new capabilities of Memphis(Windows 98), it suddenly crashed down.
I admit, I was surprised, but i was not in a shock.Microsoft is well known on their not-so-stable programs, and it was only a matter of time until such thing will happen
Microsoft's slogan in Israel is "One world, one language".this slogan is probably the Microsoftic dream.a world where everything is operated and controlled by Microsoft
But this is not what i want to talk about.today, in every computer operated by Windows 95, you'll see the same interface, as set by Microsoft programmers.some will have themes, after they made extra pay for the "Plus" package, but the interface will still be the same interface.unfortuntly, this is also true for Macs.
Now, if you will check computers operated by Linux, you will not see just one interface.some will have a windows like interface, others will have a NextStep interface, others will have a custom interface, and so on, and the same goes for FreeBSD.
What's the reason?well, both Linux and FreeBSD are Operating Systems which are not managed by a commercial companies, but the users themselves.
The source code is available for anybody, features that would be recorded as a patent on a commercial company, are full exposed to the public, and this way they can be improved, bugs are being fixed faster, and everybody enjoy it
in a short, commercial software create a new type of dictatorship, a mental dictatorship, while free software liberates the man
For a long time a small company named as Caldera is suing Microsoft for using unfair tactic during the DOS competition era
This was on the days that Microsoft did not release any new version of MS-DOS, and MS-DOS 3.33 was kind of obsolete.then, Digital Research have released their own version of dos, DR-DOS,(DR-DOS was later bought by Novell, and later Caldera bought DR-DOS from Novell) that was quite popular. Microsoft striked back with MS-DOS 4, but MS-DOS 4 was full with bugs and other problems
Now, Microsoft couldn't suffer that of course, so they have spread false rumors that the upcoming software, code named as "Windows" will not work with DR-DOS.Digital Research asked from Microsoft for Windows, so they will be able to check what is wrong.Microsoft of course refused
as a result of that many people left DR-DOS, and DR-DOS was doomed
but that's only the start.Microsoft, in order to stop the competition in the DOS market once and for all, have released Windows 4.0 together with DOS 7.0, and called both of them together as Windows 95, and claimed that Windows 4.0 is an OS by itself.however, Caldera have managed to prove that Windows uses some DOS services
however, the court will start only in 1999.the good news are that if Caldera will win, it will open a pendora box, and soon Microsoft will disappear, and Bill Gates will find himself as a simple worker with an average salary and average house
BUT if it won't happen, we will be in some very big troubles
Bill Gates can tell stories until tomorrow.he is lying.Windows 95 is 16-bit.i know, it can run 32-bit programs, but this fact makes no difference. go ahead and call Intel, and ask them if PPro is good for Windows 95.they will tell you no, because windows 95 is mixing 16-bit with 32-bit code, and yes, it is possible.
Windows's swapping system is one of the worst swapping system even written. i remember the days of my 486DX2 8MB with Windows 95.every time i ran netscape, my HD made noises for a few minutes.except for slowing down the system, i believe it made irreversible damage to my HD.i think Microsoft is responsible for at least 40% of the disk crashes in the last 3 years. in Linux for example, on the same hardware made much much less swapping.
Israel has nothing to be proud of.we have a stupid prime-minister, a shobenistic president, and people who think only about money. BUT when bill gates comes and say that Israel is the capital of the software piracy, he should be a shamed. this person has enough money to stop the hunger in the world, and still complain that he doesn't have enough.
test that were tested to Memphis, showed that Memphis is even SLOWER than the most famous cpu eater, win95.so, the customer will pay more money, Microsoft will make more profit, and as a result of the slower speed of Memphis, faster and better processors will be required, and more memory of course.so, if Microsoft will continue that way, a powerful chip like Alpha 600Mhz, which is only required in some very rare cases of 3D rendering or something similar, will be used for word processing., and not only because Word will become slower, but also because the environment itself will be slower!
Microsoft claims that NTFS is the safest file system in the world.they also admitted that if have a floppy drive,it is a problem,because you can read NTFS from dos using a special program. now,Microsoft forgot one thing.this safety level exist on my Linux machine. worse.according to reports i got from people who worked with nt,NTFS is the slowest fs on earth,because of the "security",but i can't verify that.
many people think that Java is "a programming language for the inet". but Java is more than that.Java actually allows you to program,for example,on OS/2,and disturb it,and it will run EVERYWHERE.that means that you don't have to use Microsoft's OS in order to run red alert,or tie vs xwing.
Microsoft doesn't like it,and Microsoft decided to write their own Java,but,Microsoft's Java will be LIMITED FOR WINDOWS ONLY.the whole idea of Java is "compile here,run everywhere". if Java will be used by most programmers,many people will buy os/2,or use Linux,or other OS,and NOONE will use windows,because who needs windows when there are alternatives;-)
as we all know,Microsoft made the "directX" technology for win95,and this technology is supposed to improve the performance of win95 games,and today most of win95's games use it. BUT this technology is a memory and cpu eater.proofs: a.it's a fact that in games that have both win95 and dos version,the system requirements on the win95 version are MUCH higher. b.when i had win95 installed,i installed a demo of rebel assault 2 for win95. i used DirectX,and the demo was very slow on my 486dx2 8MB,with pauses frequently,and whenever i touched the mouse. rebel assault 1,BTW,worked just fine on a poor 386. c.today i download a NES(Nintendo Entertainment System)emulator.it had both dos and win95 version.there were no memory requirements for dos,but the win95 version,that uses DirectX of course,requires 16MB minimum
well,actually it's very simple.it just trashes you FAT.for example,let's say you have a file name like that:"this_is_a_fat_trasher".win95 will allocate two file-name entries:one will be:"this_is_.a_f"and the second one will have a special attribute so programs will ignore it.it will be:"at_trash.er" and win95 will show you both as one filename.the problem is that in the root directory you have a limit of 512 file entries,so,it may cause a lot of troubles,and also,in big HD it may cause to a lot of waste.
it has been reported by a few people that for some kind of reason,the uninstall program of Microsoft's Internet Exploder 3.0 doesn't work.i doubt that Microsoft were so stupid so they couldn't write a normal uninstall program.i suspect that Microsoft did a non-working uninstall program so people will continue to use their program.i hope that it was the programmer's fault,but Microsoft aren't THAT stupid.
actually,win95 is running on dos.although you see these "clouds" on startup,behind those "clouds" config.sys and autoexec.bat run,and it's still the old 16-bit real mode OS(called dos).then you see a moron-friendly(tm) GUI,and you think that win95 is an OS. that's very interesting,and i suspect that win95 needs dos services in order to run,and that's means: a.less speed b.less stability
win95 is still works on dos's FS(File System),that if you don't know,it's name if FAT. now,how does FAT work? well,FAT is a very very very primitive FS.in order to locate the files,it uses 16bit addressing,which means that in FAT there is a limit of 65536 clusters(clusters are blocks of data,any file has a number of clusters.as the file size grows,the number of it's clusters grows) generally,a cluster size was once 512b,but because of the files number limit, you couldn't use that size on HD which are bigger than 32MB. but,Microsoft found a "solution".they allowed bigger cluster sizes,which means that a file that catches,for example,400b,instead of having 512b allocated,they had 1024b. now,that's not so bad,but as HD became bigger and bigger,the wasted space became bigger as well.on my 1.6GB i had a waste of almost 800MB,which means 50%. now,for some kind of reason,Microsoft don't use HPFS,which is a modern FS developed by IBM and Microsoft.instead,they found a funny solution:"fat32". beside of reducing the waste(at last),fat32 has nothing new.there isn't real long names support,and there isn't Anti-fragment code,and I'm not talking about speed(features that every modern FS like Ext2 and HPFS has)
the real problem on win95's multitasking is the fact that win95 suppose that the application you are in it is the most important one.if you format a floppy,and then move to excel for example,the disk formatting will take much longer.in normal OS,the formatting process will get the same attention as word,and also,in normal OS you can tell to the system to give more attention to the formatting process,even if it runs on background!!
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