Remember, this doesn't mean the case won't be heard, only that it will have to go the usual route of the Appelate courts first.
Either way, it's going to take years to resolve. And if the order to break up is upheld, it'll take even more time to implement.
The "fast track" in law isn't that much faster than the "regular track". Translation for computer people: it's not like a cache hit versus going to disk....
I've been reading FC for several months. Some pretty funny stuff. He even has a newsletter you can subscribe to -- call it insurance against the slashdot effect, I guess.
But I've been curious since I first saw the site: how did he get the domain name past Network Solutions? I thought NS had a list of words you couldn't have in domains, sort of like George Carlin's "seven words you can't say on TV".
...the VAX hardware architecture, which from my memories is based on the PDP-11, and was the foundation for processor architectures like 68K.
Here's where I show my age.
VAX indeed grew out of PDP-11. In the early 80's, the PDP line was struggling with its 16-bit address space. When Digital went to design the "next generation", they made the then-bold move of going to a 32-bit system with true virtual memory rather than a 24-bit one. VAX stood for "virtual address extension" according to the DEC marketing stuff I heard once.
However, the 68K architecture had little to do with VAX. As a matter of fact, when I was part of a group in the year *cough* *cough* porting from VAX to 68K machines, one constant nuisance was the difference in byte order ("big-endian" vs. "little-endian").
The chip really based on the VAX was the National Semiconductor 32016 and 32032. I'm not sure that chip ever made it out of test marketing.
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Either way, it's going to take years to resolve. And if the order to break up is upheld, it'll take even more time to implement.
The "fast track" in law isn't that much faster than the "regular track". Translation for computer people: it's not like a cache hit versus going to disk....
Not original, but I forgot where I heard it.
But I've been curious since I first saw the site: how did he get the domain name past Network Solutions? I thought NS had a list of words you couldn't have in domains, sort of like George Carlin's "seven words you can't say on TV".
Anyone know for sure?
VAX indeed grew out of PDP-11. In the early 80's, the PDP line was struggling with its 16-bit address space. When Digital went to design the "next generation", they made the then-bold move of going to a 32-bit system with true virtual memory rather than a 24-bit one. VAX stood for "virtual address extension" according to the DEC marketing stuff I heard once.
However, the 68K architecture had little to do with VAX. As a matter of fact, when I was part of a group in the year *cough* *cough* porting from VAX to 68K machines, one constant nuisance was the difference in byte order ("big-endian" vs. "little-endian").
The chip really based on the VAX was the National Semiconductor 32016 and 32032. I'm not sure that chip ever made it out of test marketing.
We now return you to the 21st century....