Ben Heck recently broke down the Sega Genesis and a Super Nintendo to scientifically prove which 16 Bit console was the best. Which console do you think was better?
Look. Sega might've went with better architecture hardware but they did not take it to it's full potential. which is where I feel they fell short of this bout. SNES might've utilized what I see SNES haters refer to as inferior hardware, but managed to do it in such a way that they took more use of their hardware and truthfully the support gfx hardware chips some of the more intensive titles used. I don't look at that as a crutch but more of ingenuity. despite whats under the hood, it all comes down to the end result, in which this case, is gameplay.
You want to know which console is superior to the other. I own both systems and I have titles for both that I still love to play today. However, SNES, for me gave more titles I loved to grow up with and I feel they take more advantage of their underlying hardware, IMO. So that's why I'll go with the SNES.
Yes, all you need to do is get that big 5 1/4 inch floppy copy that was loaded into ROS. A funny thing I watch was a POR for a 370/158 that needed a foot on the breaker to come up! The CE just "did not get around" to a fix. LOL
I think we could have a great conversation on the early mainframe days when GE and Burroughs were common along with IBM.
That explains much on your posts and blogs here. IBM used to show much about the 360 series until a Michigan CS department took the information and made a model 25 run like a higher one. They quietly hide all material to make that impossible in the future.
Sounds like microcode-fu. Those early 360s were microcoded, and sometimes you'd sell a slow model where the micro-engine was exactly the same as the fast model, but the slow microcode had extra NOPs to slow it down so that people would spend more for the fast model. If you knew how to replace the microcode, you could get the fast model for the slow model price.
That explains much on your posts and blogs here. IBM used to show much about the 360 series until a Michigan CS department took the information and made a model 25 run like a higher one. They quietly hide all material to make that impossible in the future.
I wonder if they will ever go to a serial bus for memory? Serial at the bit level that is. Then we get a 1 bit bus and through more magic of marketing we have a million bit system?
That's basically what PCI Express is. It replaces a 32-bit or 64-bit parallel bus with self-clocking multi-Gb/s differential pairs using 8b/10b encoding. There's packet overhead so it's inefficient for single-word transfers, but block transfers are really high bandwidth.
The 8b/10b encoding used by PCIe (and Gigabit Ethernet and SATA and ...) is brilliant. Any guesses as to who employed Al Widmer and Peter Franaszek when they came up with it?
Just like names and pseudonyms, much depends on the intent and not the actual usage. In computers there are variances in CPU, memory, cache, and bus which defines the architecture. It is not so important for the name but to understand the nuances so programming can be done as fast as possible. I have worked at low level and can tell you the 286 was a stupid chip relative to 386. Why? For the 286 to go from real mode to virtual was a simple setup and switch. But to return back on 286 to real for running those old programs took a soft reset of the processor which was nasty business if done wrong. Then they fixed that in 386. Intel has made many changes like this and others which drives low level assembler programmers to lose sleep at night. Look at my head
I think that this thread warrant pages of debate. These are video games systems and this debate is not settled...
I guess if it can transfer 32 bits in a single cycle then it is 32 bits, despite only having a 16 bit buss. But doesn't DDR have two 16 bit busses? If so I would call that a 32 bit wide bus.
I wonder if they will ever go to a serial bus for memory? Serial at the bit level that is. Then we get a 1 bit bus and through more magic of marketing we have a million bit system?
Every your post I read I should add about 10 years to your experience. Just to be curious, how was the life with Babbage?
Chuck was a good guy, but he spent all his time in his machine shop trying to make gears that meshed properly. And people here complain about having difficulty soldering
(I once saw Babbage's lathe at the Science Museum in London.)
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