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Will Pervasive Multithreading Make a Comeback?
exigentsky writes "Having looked at BeOS technology, it is clear that, like NeXTSTEP, it was ahead of its time. Most remarkable to me is the incredible responsiveness of the whole OS. On relatively slow hardware, BeOS could run eight movies simultaneously while still being responsive in all of its GUI controls, and launching programs almost instantaneously. Today, more than ten years after BeOS's introduction, its legendary responsiveness is still unmatched. There is simply no other major OS that has pervasive multithreading from the lowest level up (requiring no programmer tricks). Is it likely, or at least possible, that future versions of Windows or OS X could become pervasively multithreaded without creating an entirely new OS?"
Back in the OS/2 days, we could format 72 floppies simultaneous with no slowdown to our 14.4 connections!
Microsoft's plan is for us to keep adding CPU cores in the hope that at least one of them won't be deadlocked at any given moment in time.
No sig today...
BeOS was like JFK.
The both got gunned down before we could possibly see any downsides to them.
There were a few architectural decisions in BeOS that I felt would have resulted in great amounts of pain and suffering 10 years later.
Gentoo Sucks
Is not haiku(beos) open source?
Take the features and port to linux.
New scheduler rules them all.
Speed improvements would increase the desktop performance.
As they would increase performance with services.
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
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Table-ized A.I.
Haiku from BeOS
Multitasking all programs without delay
Open source victory
liqbase
Five, Seven, and Five That's how a Haiku should go Not like you did it
This is a multithreaded comment, right?
Good job I am a software developer and not an English teacher isn't it?
I don't think so.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Seven syllables
Not seven? so use gzip
compress the fucker
;)
Hahahahah! I found an error in your grammar rant, now you look even stupider than the guy you were trying to talk shit about. How does that feel you pedantic ass?
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
Haiku samurai
Shows us all how it is done
Educational.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
Linux, Fidel Castro, the communist leader that has been in office for ages, just refuses to resign or die and points nukes at Windows from time to time.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)