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Hardware Dojo Learning about Computer Hardware. By:David K. Every ©Copyright 1999 Hardware What is an NC? More than you ever wanted to know about NC's. Visions of NC's. Different companies have different goals. HistoryEvents leading up to the NC's.   Takin' the Bus what is a "bus"? Internal Data Pipes. Terms and speed.   Why are computers Digital and not Analog?   All about Memory! Everything you wanted to know. RAM ROM What is a Cache? RDRAM - what is Rambus, how does it compare, and should Macs use it immediately?      Monitor Madness -- multiple monitors and switches. Networking 102 - How to setup a Network   USB 2.0 - is USB 2.0 as good as FireWire? USB-two-point-oh-my! - reprint from MWJ on USB 2. Processor Info What is RISC? - a detailed answer to that question. Pipelines - what are they, how do they work? (Why MHz isn't always faster) Parallelism - past, present and future of processor designs How many bits does your processor have? - Info about 64 bit processors and what they will mean to you.   MAJC - Sun's Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing SIMD and Vectors What is MMX / VMX (AltiVec)? AltiVec vs MMX  AltiVec vs KNI (MMX2) x86 (IA32 and IA64) Is the Pentium/Athlon RISC? - why they shouldn't be called RISC. Intel's IA32 (x86) market -- what is going on. Intel Benchmarks PentiumII and G3 -- what do they look like? PentiumIII -- basically just a PentiumII with new marketing. AMD Athlon (K7) -- Alpha meets x86, how does it compare? Merced / EPIC (IA64) IS RISC PowerPC Market -- how small is too small? 603 versus the 601 - The 603's got a bad rap. G1 - 601 - 601, 601+ G2 - 603 - 603, 603e (Stretch), 603ev (Valiant), 603et (Goldeneye) 604 - 604, 604e (Siracco), 604ev (HelmWind), 604er (Mach5) G3 - 740 (613), 750 (Arthur) G4 - 7400 - Single and Multiple cores? w/wo AltiVec G5 - G5 - 7500(?) - new pipeline, on board L2, and 64 bit G5 Redux - some corrections and updates   Dead - 615, 620, x704, 760 / 770 G2000 - 9xx/2Kx - Future processor and system predictions   Other PowerPCs 630 (Power3) Related Articles Software What is Anti-Aliasing? - Anti-Aliasing can be done in hardware as well. Understanding Computer Sound - How does it all work? Counting Computerese - Understanding Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal. Understanding Endian -- how do you like your eggs? Press MacObserver - State of PPC 1 - MacObserver - State of PPC 2 - Response to MacObserver articles that try to analyze the state of the PowerPC. These responses have some analysis of their own. Created: 04/02/97 Updated: 11/09/02 Top of page Top of Section Home