[Ti] Will Apple drop its OS?

[Chris Olson]

On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> It crashed just because you were asking it to Open 40+ applications  
> at the same time? Shame on Apple. They should allow us to do that  
> without crashing.

My Mac mini PowerPC 1.25 Ghz w/512 MB RAM does it without a hitch.   
So does my old PowerBook G4/400 Mhz w/1.0 GB RAM.  Not fast, but it  
completes the task.  So does my PowerBook G4/1.67 w/2 GB RAM.  So  
does my dual PowerMac G4 w/2 GB RAM.

Since virtually every PowerPC G4 or better Mac I've ever tried it on  
is capable of doing it, I expect the new stuff to do it too.

BTW - this "test" is a test of how well the kernel handles VM and how  
well it can allocate cpu resources on many different threads or tasks  
running simultaneously.  And here's were I rest my case; Mach/XNU is  
a RISC kernel - never designed to perform on CISC hardware.  This  
"test" also taxes disk thruput handling both read/write operations  
simultaneously, video performance and overall stability of the  
operating environment (file system, etc.).

In the real world, one-off benchmarks don't mean diddly squat when  
you have users that expect a machine to remain responsive and useable  
on other tasks while rendering H.264 video in the background.  You  
can have machine A that can render video 2 seconds faster than  
machine B, but machine A becomes unresponsive during the render job  
while machine B allows the user to simultaneously complete another  
task.  In modern computing, machine A makes the benchmark numbers but  
is useless in workflow performance comparisons.
-- 
Chris

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