if IT's not a hoax then maybe...
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What is 'IT'?
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its one of those 3d/solid printer things. There were some articles on slashdot about them a while ago. That would clearly explain all the legal issues around the device.
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -Tw
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Perl 5.6.0 Out
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Wasnt able to actually read the article cuz the site went over its hit limit, but i know SGI uses page faults to serialize access to the 3D acceleration hardware. essentially it amounts to IPC amoung some progs that dont know about each other w/ the assitance of IRIX. I think they might even use something similar in the 3dfx DRI driver. At least that is what i heard.
The whole idea behind RISC is that the hardware provide FAST primitives that the upper levels can use to create more complex structures. Putting malloc free etc into hardware would just make things more complicated and maybe faster in the VERY short run but would surely not be as good as just making a DAMN fast memory subsytem or an awesome processor.
They aren't completely out of the loop. But, I would be happier if they had stuck to submitting their kernel patches in the usual manner, and maybe created a site that suggested how to tweek the major distros it be used optimally w/ abit mbos. At least they are making a serious effort to support linux.
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its one of those 3d/solid printer things. There were some articles on slashdot about them a while ago. That would clearly explain all the legal issues around the device.
$p = new perl('5.6.0');
$p->goodStuff;
print "JAPH wanabe\n";
Wasnt able to actually read the article cuz the site went over its hit limit, but i know SGI uses page faults to serialize access to the 3D acceleration hardware. essentially it amounts to IPC amoung some progs that dont know about each other w/ the assitance of IRIX. I think they might even use something similar in the 3dfx DRI driver. At least that is what i heard.
The whole idea behind RISC is that the hardware provide FAST primitives that the upper levels can use to create more complex structures. Putting malloc free etc into hardware would just make things more complicated and maybe faster in the VERY short run but would surely not be as good as just making a DAMN fast memory subsytem or an awesome processor.
www.gentus.com kills my netscape(4.7) on IRIX6.5.4 I get either a bus error or memory fault just after the background turns grey on the page :(
They aren't completely out of the loop. But, I would be happier if they had stuck to submitting their kernel patches in the usual manner, and maybe created a site that suggested how to tweek the major distros it be used optimally w/ abit mbos. At least they are making a serious effort to support linux.