>...optimization...choose a scheduler at config time...
Ding! right answer. SGI's machines have interestingly different schedulers for their various machines, because the hardware architecture does vary so much (single processor machine, older SMP machines, newer cc-numa machines with the concept of "local" and "remote" memory (local is obviously faster). Here, the scheduler is picked at kernel config time, although it's done by linking the right.o's together; not by some #define in the code or whatever. Regardless of the actual mechanism, "during the creation of the kernel" is the right time to do this magic hand-waving.
>...64p machines common / not common...
You're trying to talk about whether *intel* machines will grow to 64p or not. They will. Note that 16-64p machines are the meat and potatoes of SGI's business today; not the neat whiz-bang desktops, but the large servers. Yeah, we're talking different markets here, but I hope my point is made - look beyond the desktop market, there's a whole nother world out there.
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You guys keep saying "that'd be nice to put linux on it when it comes out" but there are already several products that are touchscreen laptops. Most with attached keyboards, one or two without. Here are two of them:
There are more, but these are the ones I could find easily.
Additionally, wireless networking is starting to be cheaply available (albeit a short range of ~150 feet indoors) - Diamond HomeFree costs only about $100-$150 a node. CHEAP compared to previously available wireless network cards! NOTE: Proxim is offering a product (Symphony) hat has identical specs. I'm not sure whose product is whose here. I suspect that proxim is the mfg, and diamond is OEM'ing it.
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>...optimization...choose a scheduler at config time...
Ding! right answer. SGI's machines have interestingly different schedulers for their various machines, because the hardware architecture does vary so much (single processor machine, older SMP machines, newer cc-numa machines with the concept of "local" and "remote" memory (local is obviously faster). Here, the scheduler is picked at kernel config time, although it's done by linking the right .o's together; not by some #define in the code or whatever. Regardless of the actual mechanism, "during the creation of the kernel" is the right time to do this magic hand-waving.
>...64p machines common / not common...
You're trying to talk about whether *intel* machines will grow to 64p or not. They will. Note that 16-64p machines are the meat and potatoes of SGI's business today; not the neat whiz-bang desktops, but the large servers. Yeah, we're talking different markets here, but I hope my point is made - look beyond the desktop market, there's a whole nother world out there.
It's unclear from your question from what orientation you need to process cookies. If you're effectively a browser, I've been using HTTPClient version 0.3, and all you have to write is a "accept this cookie Y/N" function.
You guys keep saying "that'd be nice to put linux on it when it comes out" but there are already several products that are touchscreen laptops. Most with attached keyboards, one or two without. Here are two of them:
- Fujitsu Biblio MC8 - touchscreen laptop (2.6 lbs, P200-233)
- Panasonic CF01 - touchscreen notepad, external keyboard (2.2 lbs, Am586-133)
There are more, but these are the ones I could find easily.Additionally, wireless networking is starting to be cheaply available (albeit a short range of ~150 feet indoors) - Diamond HomeFree costs only about $100-$150 a node. CHEAP compared to previously available wireless network cards! NOTE: Proxim is offering a product (Symphony) hat has identical specs. I'm not sure whose product is whose here. I suspect that proxim is the mfg, and diamond is OEM'ing it.