Wednesday, October 23, 2002



Intel looks to spread silicon "everywhere". Business may be down, but the company plans to place its chips in as many products, markets and geographies as possible. [CNET News.com]
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BVRP Launches High-Speed Wireless Data Software. BVRP Software's MobilePhoneTools lets laptop users connect to the Internet using either a GPRS cellular phone or PC card. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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UEI to Provide Connectivity Software and Wireless Controllers for DVRs. Universal Electronics will provide connectivity software for SONICblue's new digital video recorders, Replay TV 5000, that will allow them to access cable and satellite set-top boxes for seamless digital recording. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Here's something to fuel the rumor mongers and ABI wars... if you look in the right spot in Mac OS X, you'll find the following list of CPUs in a context that indicates that they are-- in some fashion-- supported in 6D52 (10.2.1):

i386 m68k hppa sparc m88k i860 ppc601 ppc603 ppc603e ppc603ev ppc604 ppc604e ppc750 ppc7400 ppc7450 i486 i486SX pentium i586 pentpro pentIIm3 pentIIm5 m68030 m68040 hppa7100LC

Fun.

(The first four were supported NeXTSTEP platforms -- Sparc was dropped for OpenStep 4.2, if I remember correctly. m88k was the brick that never shipped and i860 was the CPU used on the NeXTdimension [which ran its own trimmed down mach like kernel]. The ppc* series are obviously the various random chips that shipped in legacy macs. The rest are fairly obvious. I.e. it is all just history.) [bbum's rants, code & references]
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Hutchison orders 2 million 3G phones from NEC. That's more like it [The Register]
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