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End of The Von Neumann Computing Age?
olafo writes "Three recent Forbes articles:
Chipping Away, Flexible Flyers and Super-Cheap Supercomputers cite attractive alternatives to traditional Von Neumann computers and microprocessors. One even mentions we're approaching the end of the Von Neumann age and the beginning of a new Reconfigurable computing age. Are we ready?"
Better read this article first, don't want to be stuck with not be able to configure your computer.
you fp morons.. there's liek 5 "first post :P" messages in a row.. granted, i thought i was gonna get it.. but you know.. ;)
KRAMER: Good. Here's my collateral. EARL: So it's a mailbag, so what? NEWMAN: So what? Do you know whose mailbag that is? EARL: (Reading) David Berkowitz. NEWMAN: Son of Sam. The worst mass murderer the post office ever produced. (Sorry, wrong Neumann...)
Why do I h8 apple?
GEORGE: Aren't those the guys that always go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody?
NEWMAN: Sometimes...
JERRY: Why is that?
NEWMAN: Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publisher's Clearing House day!!!
Why do I h8 apple?
we have exited the age of european imperialism.
now we have entered the age of america imperialism.
just wait for the syrian war!
it's gonna rock 20 times more than this boring iraq war which in turn rocked 20 times harder than that sissy afghanistan war!
These f*cking e-mails, are worse than the penis enlargment spam
HAHAHA... ahhhh... ehhh... oh sorry, couldn't help but let you know that Iptables comment was hilarious.
:)
Man YOUR_ASS has to be one sore ass receiving end of THAT much traffic
-DaedalusHKX
PS - yes I know, I'm sorry, but that SIG was just too funny.
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End of The Von Neumann Computing Age?
What does it mean?
None of you fucks know, apparently.
Suck my balls.
It's a clear case of a man taking credit for something he didn't do. Please, /. editors, do not perpetuate the myth of von Neumann.
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One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying