Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 417 from 2003/8/18
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If we want competitive hardware we need to look at several upgrades (to our current components). First, we need more powerful processors (and at some point we need to consider multiple cores). We need modern expansion busses (like PCI-e) and accessories (like the upcoming USB 3.0 port standard)
If you want competitive hardware you need to go x86/pc road... Market drives innovation, not the other way around. PPC will always lag behind, in terms of speed, and expansion, simply because it's targeted at different markets.
And yes, Cell&Xenon are powerfull PPC variants, but
closed ones and you can't expect IBM/Sony to open it up for you as they have nothing at all to win...
Nothing hurts a project more than developers not taking the time to let their community know what is going on.
