His arguements PC vs. SGI are absolutely ridiculous. Any idiot can go to sgi.com and get the benchmarks and see that he is completely full of it. TNT was designed for Q3 fps... Its a bad comparison anyways.... an Octane/MXE will outperform any TNT graphics card, any day of the year.
C++ is my tounge, and I like it! Do seem to spend wayyy too much time on structure, rather than actually programming though. oh well.
I'd use IRIX 6.5, if I had the chance, every day over anything else. It scales very well, if done properly. An R12000 makes a PIII look like pretty pathetic. I think any rational person knows that.
*puke* SGI and Sun will be in the business for a while yet. Pixar, for one. All those lovely Sun machines:o)
SGI is dead? Sorry, their ccNUMA architecture will mean that they are very relevant and will outperform virtually anyone in supercomputing performance. Their SV1 series, well, second to none.
http://www.sgi.com/octane/techspecs.html if you need some reminding of the octane performance. It walks all over any shitty peeeceeeeee.
imho, SGI has done more for high end graphics than pretty much anyone else.
Usually, its because you've got one of a few things :
You've got bad project managers that can't understand the software process.
You've got coders that are mentally 'stuck'. Giving them the opportunity to ship it, then go away, then come back to it can be quite valuable. Although, it can have the opposite effect in some.
You've got the people that have given you their money bashing on the windows. You just end up running out of money and need to ship the damn thing to save your sorry wallet.
You've got a customer, or the whole market that wants your product, NOW (as you say). This is the worst of them all.
There are a few other reasons... but, I won't go into them. Its only 8am!
Most medical devices use a custom built OS. For good reason too.
They require such outstandingly specialised features, run on such peculiar platforms and the developers also want to feel that they can 'own' the entire device.
Take an MRI machine, for example. That has its own customised platform, etc... why you ask? Because it would need fault tolerance, self diagnostics, etc... that are hardly available off the shelf, or would require such re-engineering to an open source product you may as well build you own damn OS.
Also, it gives you such great control over your own OS. Linux doesn't offer the developers the feeling that they 'own' their OS and have access to it, etc... and nobody interfering.
This is why I think linux will never make it into that area. Its a stuck mindset, and with good reason, imho.
With 911. You have an arguement. However, I still think vast majority will run on customised platforms. Linux is stable. Sure. However, when it comes to healthcare and other industries. you don't need stable, you need un-crashable or at least have such unbelievable fault tolerance and self diagonistics. There are some things that can't be left to chance.
Anyone for a ride on a warship running linux? I sure wouldn't. I'd want its own OS, and i'm sure its builders would too.
Win2K Pro is OK, barely. It runs my games and my other win32 bound apps. It, is, however, MS's usual. Missing features, massive size, slow, *sigh*.
I've ordered solaris 8 on the site. It should be good.
The BeOS, imho, is a fatally flawed beast. Its got a good OS, but, the hardware support is appalling, the apps are few and far between. I've got R4 installed. However, it does have its upside, the BeFS is an outstanding file system.
Having said that, R5 running on a 16 processor Merced machine would be utterly amazing. Oh well, I can dream.
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What are you doing with the other 6.25%?
His arguements PC vs. SGI are absolutely ridiculous. Any idiot can go to sgi.com and get the benchmarks and see that he is completely full of it. TNT was designed for Q3 fps... Its a bad comparison anyways.... an Octane/MXE will outperform any TNT graphics card, any day of the year.
C++ is my tounge, and I like it! Do seem to spend wayyy too much time on structure, rather than actually programming though. oh well.
My karma is already down to -4.
I've actually got nothing better to do right now. Work is sloooooooooooow.
An Octane/MXE card leaves a TNT for dead.
:o)
I'd use IRIX 6.5, if I had the chance, every day over anything else. It scales very well, if done properly. An R12000 makes a PIII look like pretty pathetic. I think any rational person knows that.
*puke* SGI and Sun will be in the business for a while yet. Pixar, for one. All those lovely Sun machines
SGI is dead? Sorry, their ccNUMA architecture will mean that they are very relevant and will outperform virtually anyone in supercomputing performance. Their SV1 series, well, second to none.
http://www.sgi.com/octane/techspecs.html if you need some reminding of the octane performance. It walks all over any shitty peeeceeeeee.
imho, SGI has done more for high end graphics than pretty much anyone else.
Release now. Patch later.
Usually, its because you've got one of a few things :
You've got bad project managers that can't understand the software process.
You've got coders that are mentally 'stuck'. Giving them the opportunity to ship it, then go away, then come back to it can be quite valuable. Although, it can have the opposite effect in some.
You've got the people that have given you their money bashing on the windows. You just end up running out of money and need to ship the damn thing to save your sorry wallet.
You've got a customer, or the whole market that wants your product, NOW (as you say). This is the worst of them all.
There are a few other reasons... but, I won't go into them. Its only 8am!
Ouch. You have my sympathy.
Just generally on medical devices.
Most medical devices use a custom built OS. For good reason too.
They require such outstandingly specialised features, run on such peculiar platforms and the developers also want to feel that they can 'own' the entire device.
Take an MRI machine, for example. That has its own customised platform, etc... why you ask? Because it would need fault tolerance, self diagnostics, etc... that are hardly available off the shelf, or would require such re-engineering to an open source product you may as well build you own damn OS.
Also, it gives you such great control over your own OS. Linux doesn't offer the developers the feeling that they 'own' their OS and have access to it, etc... and nobody interfering.
This is why I think linux will never make it into that area. Its a stuck mindset, and with good reason, imho.
With 911. You have an arguement. However, I still think vast majority will run on customised platforms. Linux is stable. Sure. However, when it comes to healthcare and other industries. you don't need stable, you need un-crashable or at least have such unbelievable fault tolerance and self diagonistics. There are some things that can't be left to chance.
Anyone for a ride on a warship running linux? I sure wouldn't. I'd want its own OS, and i'm sure its builders would too.
No.
No. No. No. No. No.
:o)
Linux is still great as ever!!
Win2K Pro is OK, barely. It runs my games and my other win32 bound apps. It, is, however, MS's usual. Missing features, massive size, slow, *sigh*.
I've ordered solaris 8 on the site. It should be good.
The BeOS, imho, is a fatally flawed beast. Its got a good OS, but, the hardware support is appalling, the apps are few and far between. I've got R4 installed. However, it does have its upside, the BeFS is an outstanding file system.
Having said that, R5 running on a 16 processor Merced machine would be utterly amazing. Oh well, I can dream.
LINUX FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!