Hmm. I've understood that several computers of '60s and '70s were asynchronous. I'm sure PDP11/20 was, and some early-model PDP10 (KA10) machines were too and most likely the PDP6 was also asynchronous - and certainly there were many other asynchronous designs from other manufacturers than DEC.
It is really easy to trash. I can say this from experience as the institute I'm working for has Tru64 running on its main NFS servers, each serving circa 300GB of disk to workstations, other servers etc. Every time there's a power outage, the filesystems get corrupted. That's ok, any filesystem will get some damage if the power cord gets pulled in the middle of a write, but the damn thing is very time-consuming to fix. You have to run 'salvage' on it, and that'll take quite some time to complete, and the success rate seems to be somewhere between 40-60%.. We're trying to get rid of the lousy pile of s**t.
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That's not AIX. That's VM. VM doesn't run on just about anything that AIX does.
forth. not lisp.
Try irssi. http://www.irssi.org/
The Linux "fine-grained" locking is embarrassingly often just a One Big Kernel Lock. Read the source, you'll notice...
Hmm. I've understood that several computers of '60s and '70s were asynchronous. I'm sure PDP11/20 was, and some early-model PDP10 (KA10) machines were too and most likely the PDP6 was also asynchronous - and certainly there were many other asynchronous designs from other manufacturers than DEC.
It is really easy to trash. I can say this from experience as the institute I'm working for has Tru64 running on its main NFS servers, each serving circa 300GB of disk to workstations, other servers etc. Every time there's a power outage, the filesystems get corrupted. That's ok, any filesystem will get some damage if the power cord gets pulled in the middle of a write, but the damn thing is very time-consuming to fix. You have to run 'salvage' on it, and that'll take quite some time to complete, and the success rate seems to be somewhere between 40-60%.. We're trying to get rid of the lousy pile of s**t.