One question: Can you get the model name from the commad line, and if so, how? In OpenVMS 7.1, show CPU should give it to you. Don't know when show cpu was added, so your mileage on older OpenVMS versions may vary. Maybe I should change my VAXstation 2000 into a beer carrying case. - Chad
I didn't understand the text in the article as saying game developers want the ability to customize kernels for different games. It seemed more to me to say that since the OS has source available, you can RTSL, identify bottlenecks to superior game performance and then develop either alternate OS interfaces that allow better performance or improve the existing interfaces.
More or less, with source at your finger tips, you can do more than bitch and moan about things being slow. You can dig in and find out exactly why its so slow (bitch about it of course) and then fix it. - Chad
Hey, if Sony and Microsoft are teaming up to do television (http://www.sony-television.com) next season, I could see them branching out to the electronic companionship market too. It's a pretty huge market as I see it. Lotsa lonely people who don't have the personal skills to keep house plants alive, let alone goldfish, cats, or dogs. They deserve friends that won't easily die too.
And to think what advertising potential Sony TV gives the thing...
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One question: Can you get the model name from the commad line, and if so, how? In OpenVMS 7.1, show CPU should give it to you. Don't know when show cpu was added, so your mileage on older OpenVMS versions may vary. Maybe I should change my VAXstation 2000 into a beer carrying case. - Chad
I didn't understand the text in the article as saying game developers want the ability to customize kernels for different games. It seemed more to me to say that since the OS has source available, you can RTSL, identify bottlenecks to superior game performance and then develop either alternate OS interfaces that allow better performance or improve the existing interfaces.
More or less, with source at your finger tips, you can do more than bitch and moan about things being slow. You can dig in and find out exactly why its so slow (bitch about it of course) and then fix it.
- Chad
Hey, if Sony and Microsoft are teaming up to do television (http://www.sony-television.com) next season, I could see them branching out to the electronic companionship market too. It's a pretty huge market as I see it. Lotsa lonely people who don't have the personal skills to keep house plants alive, let alone goldfish, cats, or dogs. They deserve friends that won't easily die too.
And to think what advertising potential Sony TV gives the thing...
- Chad