On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Brian J.Conway wrote:
Sure, but since Intel and AMD have both sworn themselves to support Palladium in their hardware, there aren't that many choices left in that area of the consumer market (VIA, I suppose).
Have they sworn support or paying it lip-service at this point. I think I read somewhere that they are internally not in favor of Palladium but are being pressured to incorporate it, and if there is enough resistance they will have a reason to drop off. Maybe it was just AMD? I don't remember where I read that...sorry.
The disks aren't the issue, it's having software that the Palladium-enabled BIOS says is okay to boot. Where it's booting from doesn't matter.
Well the grand scheme being pushed by Hollywood includes updates to the disk BIOS. Although I didn't read it specifically I would assume they would leave SCSI alone since SCSI are essentially business disks and EIDE are consumer disks. So if you build a system that looks like a business server maybe Palladium will let it pass? :-| -- Gary