Linux After Y2K

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 20, 1999 @06:46PM from the 640-beads-of-RAM-is-enough-for-anyone dept.

jonathan_ingram writes "Through some strange twist in the space-time continuum, Linux Today has received Joe Pranevich's Wonderful World of Linux 3.0 one year early... Nice to know RMS will still be around after the end of civilisation." Um ... yeah. You may want to read up on Abacus World Expo before you try to figure out what Joe P. is talking about in this story.

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Queries on Linux 3.0 by Marsfire · 1999-10-20 14:31 · Score: 2

Firstly, Is any support for palm-top abaci being planned? And second, I'm wondering when FreeBSD will release their own bead platform Any help on these would be greatly appreciated.
My post Y2k plans by Yarn · 1999-10-20 18:00 · Score: 2

Either go up to london and steal Babbage's differential engine (Even if it doesnt run linux, it looks damn pretty while its working out log tables) or live in an old mill I know that has a few hundred watt generator in it. (powered by water, I think that's Y2k compliant)

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SMP Support by alexhmit01 · 1999-10-20 14:20 · Score: 3

I guess the real question is the SMP support... I mean, what if I want to put my aLinux rectangle down and use both hands...

Hell, if a friend comes over and uses his hands, how well does the aLinux implementation scale to 4 hands and beyond... I believe Sun has a aSolaris implementation where the racks are so spread out that 256 hands can work on it simulatenously...

Alex
abacusCE :-) by BorgDrone · 1999-10-20 19:08 · Score: 2

If we make pocket versions of aLinux it should beat the crap out of Microsoft's AbacusCE
AbacusCE is a totally closed design (the glued it together with super-glue) whereas aLinux is put together with screws. so you can customize it (change the color of the balls etc.)
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Agh! by pb · 1999-10-20 14:50 · Score: 3

30,000 beads is not nearly enough to run X...

I guess the NSA will have rooms full of these things running some proprietary SMP bead-manipulating operating system to break our high-tech Triple-XOR implementations. :)
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Wow! Talk about advancement by Accipiter · 1999-10-20 20:28 · Score: 3

Linux 3.0 is nice. But what about remote administration? No problem. I've solved that with The StickTM. The StickTM allows you to control your Linux box--err Abacus from up to 6 feet away! This way, you can fend off wild looters while rebooting your abacus. (NOTE: If the looters get a bit too rowdy, The StickTM can also be used as a weapon.)

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Fault tolerance? by Bill+Currie · 1999-10-20 15:49 · Score: 3

Will aLinux 3.0 support fault tolerand abacii? This vxab stuff from Stratacus has got my beads in a twist. I've got to merge the beads of two abacii (both of them having been previously used) and the docs are'nt the most informative. Unfortunatly the aLinux HOWTOs don't apply to aFTX. Arg, bloody proprietary abacii and OSs.

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Re:multi threading? by Bill+Currie · 1999-10-20 15:50 · Score: 3

Sure, but if your operations aren't thread-save, you run the risk of corrupting your beads and threads resulting in a tangles mess.

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