I was just configuring Debian on a E450 dev box to bring our servers more in line with our production servers.
What does this mean for Sun? No one knows for sure. Is it the beginning of the end or a stop gap measure until their new processors come out in 2004. The ones all the analysts are so hyper over, not the USIV or USV but the Afara procs.
But what does this mean for AMD? Now every enterprise can ask the question, why not go with AMD? Sun uses their procs... why shouldn't we use them also.
This is just good news for AMD and may be a kick in the groin for Intel to wake up to the 64 bit to the desktop question.
You are absolutely correct! Thanks for catching that... I've was trying to keep it within the sig space limit, and it must got turned around during editing. I need a new QA process...;-)
I hope they tear a swath of destruction across your beloved Linux vendors. It's only fair, since you all cheered him on when he went after MS.
And they may just go after the biggest purse of all (read Microsoft) and not the other small fry Linux vendors. We're all pretty sure there's some BSD code in the TCP stack for Windows. This has the potential to affect every OS on the planet if SCO continues to pursue it.
The more I read about the Crusoe chips, the more I start to think about how they should just drop the strict x86 compat, and start people developing directly for the core of the chip, in it's native tongue.
The Crusoe is a chip that runs comparable to a similar Intel/AMD chip and yet does it all through software emulation. Imagine what it can do with it's straight instruction set! Developers could start programming applications that take advantage of this, but then if they required a backward compatible app that has been compiled for x86, then the chip could also run those too. A distro based on the "native" Crusoe instruction set, could run x86 compiled applications.
Why stop there? If they are able to codemorph x86, why not PPC or... make the Crusoe a 64 bit chip, and codemorph SPARC or MIPS.
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I was just configuring Debian on a E450 dev box to bring our servers more in line with our production servers.
What does this mean for Sun? No one knows for sure. Is it the beginning of the end or a stop gap measure until their new processors come out in 2004. The ones all the analysts are so hyper over, not the USIV or USV but the Afara procs.
But what does this mean for AMD? Now every enterprise can ask the question, why not go with AMD? Sun uses their procs... why shouldn't we use them also.
This is just good news for AMD and may be a kick in the groin for Intel to wake up to the 64 bit to the desktop question.
You are absolutely correct! Thanks for catching that... I've was trying to keep it within the sig space limit, and it must got turned around during editing. I need a new QA process... ;-)
I hope they tear a swath of destruction across your beloved Linux vendors. It's only fair, since you all cheered him on when he went after MS.
And they may just go after the biggest purse of all (read Microsoft) and not the other small fry Linux vendors. We're all pretty sure there's some BSD code in the TCP stack for Windows. This has the potential to affect every OS on the planet if SCO continues to pursue it.
Be careful what you wish for...
I didn't know SCO nee Caldera OpenLinux Server is considered warez. Yoinks!
Someone better alert www.linuxiso.org that they're promoting piracy. Alert the BSA!
Good thing I removed OpenLinux from my servers and switched to Debian. Is this one warez also?
Thanks for the heads up...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor, change to hex 9, and now you have tab auto complete the next time you open a command prompt.
Score one for the little guys.
The more I read about the Crusoe chips, the more I start to think about how they should just drop the strict x86 compat, and start people developing directly for the core of the chip, in it's native tongue.
... make the Crusoe a 64 bit chip, and codemorph SPARC or MIPS.
The Crusoe is a chip that runs comparable to a similar Intel/AMD chip and yet does it all through software emulation. Imagine what it can do with it's straight instruction set! Developers could start programming applications that take advantage of this, but then if they required a backward compatible app that has been compiled for x86, then the chip could also run those too. A distro based on the "native" Crusoe instruction set, could run x86 compiled applications.
Why stop there? If they are able to codemorph x86, why not PPC or
1. Create Unix clone to teach OS design to students.
2. Restrict license so nobody uses it.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!