I saw an article in info week or some other rag last month that Psion was also working on something called "Project Jedi" which was supposed to cost about $1,200 and be released later this year.
The specs were: 8.5x11 clamshell design, 64MB of mem (48 available, the rest used by the OS), nice color screen and a 200MHz StrongARM CPU... though the 5mx looks like a really nice handheld (I've got a series 5, and it's REALLY handy).
SGI's servers (AFAIK) use CPUs from MIPS (which SGI owns). They range in number from 1 to a bunch (at SuperComputing '93, I saw a PowerCHALLENGE box with 144 CPUs).
If they port XFS, that will be REALLY, REALLY cool. XFS has all kinds of neato stuff like journaling (for super-fast fscks) and they also have this thing called GRIO (Guaranteed Rate I/O) where you can allocate a channel to a filesystem that's guaranteed to produce N MB/s... really nice for streaming apps. If SGI can make the transition to Linux across teh board, think of how many resources they could allocate to supporting Linux instead of IRIX... Mmmmm...
If we're not talking about all hte other stuff you get saddled with in college (history, english, etc, etc), then I think the CS portition of college could be knocked down to 2 years.
If you learn the fundamentals (discrete math, number theory, finite state automata, etc) then most of what I've actually used has been OJT or things I've picked up in my own extra-curricular reading.
One thing you don't want, though, is a bunch of people who come out of college with just pure technical knowledge. You really do need to learn history, english, philosophy and other things -- I think it helps you understand the world and how it works. Without that, you've got a bunch of technically literate slaves.
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I saw an article in info week or some other rag last month that Psion was also working on something called "Project Jedi" which was supposed to cost about $1,200 and be released later this year.
The specs were: 8.5x11 clamshell design, 64MB of mem (48 available, the rest used by the OS), nice color screen and a 200MHz StrongARM CPU... though the 5mx looks like a really nice handheld (I've got a series 5, and it's REALLY handy).
-nate
At least it would be clear that Anikin is moving to the Dark Side if DiCrapio plays him ;-)
-nate
SGI's servers (AFAIK) use CPUs from MIPS (which SGI owns). They range in number from 1 to a bunch (at SuperComputing '93, I saw a PowerCHALLENGE box with 144 CPUs).
If they port XFS, that will be REALLY, REALLY cool. XFS has all kinds of neato stuff like journaling (for super-fast fscks) and they also have this thing called GRIO (Guaranteed Rate I/O) where you can allocate a channel to a filesystem that's guaranteed to produce N MB/s... really nice for streaming apps. If SGI can make the transition to Linux across teh board, think of how many resources they could allocate to supporting Linux instead of IRIX... Mmmmm...
-nate
I've seen ads for some tape drives lately that hold 30Gb on a $30 tape. The drives only cost $299.
Does anyone have experience with these drives too?
-nate
If we're not talking about all hte other stuff you get saddled with in college (history, english, etc, etc), then I think the CS portition of college could be knocked down to 2 years.
If you learn the fundamentals (discrete math, number theory, finite state automata, etc) then most of what I've actually used has been OJT or things I've picked up in my own extra-curricular reading.
One thing you don't want, though, is a bunch of people who come out of college with just pure technical knowledge. You really do need to learn history, english, philosophy and other things -- I think it helps you understand the world and how it works. Without that, you've got a bunch of technically literate slaves.
-nate