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Operating Systems of the Future
An anonymous reader writes: "'Imagine computers in a group providing disk storage for their users, transparently swapping files and optimizing their collective performance, all with no central administration.' Computerworld is predicting that over the next 10 years, operating systems will become highly distributed and 'self-healing,' and they'll collaborate with applications, making application programmers' jobs easier."
Here here! I'm sick of hearing about computers that can fly and cure cancer. Who's making these predictions? They don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Im stil waiting for the flying car promised in the 50's
....futurists have NO clue what so ever !
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Or the atomic car promised by ford in the 60's
Or the Artificial intelligence android promised me in the 70's
Or......I get it
All this technolgy only makes it easier to kill each other, steal each other land and money, and pretty much lead more misearble meaningless existences than life was 50 years ago....
Predicting what an OS is going to be like now is hilarious. The systems architecture, may, be the exact same basis the PC has been for 20 years no. I got my first IBM PC in 81, they havent changed as much as you think, open up one of the antiques , youll see
So what is a computer going to be like in 10 years ? If you can predict this one way or another. Same or Radically different you could be the next BG....
Horseshit all of it...
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........
>computers that will program themselves
... of course, you'll always give up speed, just as when you tell someone else to do something. The more granular you describe the solution you want, the less time the other person/computer has to spend figuring it out themselves.
It's called a compiler. You use C/C++, or whatever, to 'tell' the computer what the program it should make will do.
Computers that can 'program themselves' is simply an extention of that concept to the point where (presumably) you can 'code' in your natural spoken language. A computer shouldn't do anything until you've told it what to do. Currently, we use C, but there really isn't a functional difference between English and C except for the granularity of the specification of the problem and the desired implentation of its solution. For instance, with PHP, I no longer need to tell the computer that the $foobar variable will be an unsigned long
"Old man yells at systemd"
How long has it taken for Microsoft to make an OS that simply DOES NOT CRASH?!
With around 15 years of work and refinement, they may just about have gotten to that point with Win2000 and WinXP. How much effort did it take them to do long file names, for heaven's sake? Let's not even get into issues about the quality of multitasking.
I simply can't take a prediction seriously that a (real) Borg Operating System will be a reality in 10 years. Especially coming from Microsoft. Heck, I wouldn't believe such a prediction from an OS company I respect. But from Microsoft??? Consider the source.
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