> down a bit, but still be high-quality. Ok, so I recently got a ibook. One of the main reasons I got it was to get away (for a short time at least) from the rather screwed up x86 architecture. Hopefully the proprietary apple stuff will at least keep them from having a rather screwed up BIOS (although no open firmware makes wonder, I guess there are still suns). A chip that still boots in 8bit mode, uses a CISC instruction set externally but a RISC instruction set internally (that you can't access I might add), and has only 4 general purpose registers (even the 8bit micros I'm working with have 32) makes me a bit dubious on the ``high-quality'' bit.
X86 chips have two things going for them: fast and cheap. First IDE and then this. I guess I'm more than a little disappointed. >>>------>
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