Nnngghh! Second time posting this one as there appears to be a server bug that killed my last copy...
Firstly, whoever moderated the above to zero should be very ashamed. It's a legitimate opinion, and if Slashdot stops being somewhere where we can all talk about things, it'll die.
Secondly, real pity about this. I'd love a Nino as a toy, simply as WindowsCE includes Jot which seems to be better than Graffiti by all accounts (ditto the on-screen keyboards for that matter, due to WinCE's superior screen design) and the Nino in particular including either smARTwriter or Calligrapher, both of which are supposed to make a rather better stab at this handwrting recognition lark by allowing proper writing (albeit printed only). Yes, it's bigger, heavier and takes more power but if it still fits in a pocket without weighing it down and can be used all day without a charge, who cares? Plus I can get rechargeable with disposable backup, which isn't possible on Palms...
I know CE is supposed to be pretty nasty but if I was seriously looking for something like this, it's be a Nino. Psion 5/Revo's nice, but a keyboard means that I either have to put it down or try and balance it on one hand while typing with the other (I've seen it, and it's worth a laugh!) to use the thing on the move. So, it's got to be an upright and the Nino appears to have by far the easiest data input, letting me take notes properly on it.
Just hope I can find one going cheap as they sell them off:)
Dunno if Tom's ever met the guy, but I've been to some of his lectures...
I'm a Comp. Sci student at Reading and I can tell you this guy's mad. Computers are going to take over the world inevitably if you believe him, despite the fact that we still haven't got usable machine intelligence and walking robots are horrificaly unreliable.
TBH, we just get used to the idea that there's this nutter in the next building who does daft things every now and then that get his department money. Nothing more than publicity, really - I'm told by some of his students that the implant into his arm didn't actually work, for example - too low power. He's got a reputation for rigging demos, too.
What we have here is an attention seeking self-publicist, nothing more. So enamoured with his own subject - which doens't actually teach you for anything especially useful - that he's prepared to say any rubbish to get on the news, and people who've not come across him before publish it as fantastic breakthroughs. Please, can we start ignoring him and hoping he'll go away?
And maybe we should do the same with stories about Linux inevitably taking over the world, or people getting heated up about possible violations of the GPL?
Yes, Amiga have had some interesting publicity recently - though lots of the problems have been caused by the users assuming things that aren't supported - or are even denied - by what Amiga themselves have said. Can't blame us really, with no substantial developments in 6 years.
The point is, people care about this one and Amiga are going to produce an interesting platform from the sounds of things. Give them half a chance, for goodness' sakes.
It could be that the guy went to Amiga hoping it would take less time than working high up in Gateway then found what the Amiga users were like, y'know...
It's not impossible that he genuinely has resigned for legit reasons, given what the Amiga community's like. I know, I'm still on the fringes of it myself.
I'm still asking myself whether he was jumped or pushed though. He's annoyed me already with the Linux decision which, realistic as it may be, substantially reduced the probability of it turning out anything revolutionary. Downgraded a near-certain purchase to a fairly likely one. Nonetheless, he seems to have made some good decisions too, so I dunno.
Either way, this alone shouldn't influence my likelihood of getting one and I can't see why it should for anyone else.
I suppose this is nice for the GNU/Linux advocates out there, but...
I can see lots of programmers getting very annoyed about this one and leaving. The reason they're doing this isn't technical superiority, it's cost. By switching, they can remove their own OS teams from the equation and replace them with teams porting the x86 machine code to their architecture (BTW - how long's it going to be before someone reailses that having Linux as platform-dependent is crazy? Assembly code should all go!), thus saving them heaps because they can ride on the backs of the utopian programmers. If I was one of them, I wouldn't want my code being used to benefit all these companies in this way and I'd rapidly stop contributing code.
Yup, Manchester Mark 1, the Small Scale Experimental Machine or "Baby" is the first that could run a stored program - or at least that's what I've always been taught. I'll have to look into this one from Iowa, but I admit I've never heard it quoted.
I still say that I've only ever heard ENIAC referred to as a calculator...
Plate glass was invented relatively recently by a Mr. Pilkington - can't remember if he was anything to do with Pilkington glass or not.
The point here is that old sheetas of glass were basically made by blowing a bulb, popping it and then flattening it out - hence the old windows with the bulbous bit and the mark in the middle. Not so good for large sheets of plate glass, so that's floated on mercury and passed through rollers IIRC.
Does anyone else watch Local Heroes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/archive/local_hero es97/index.shtml - sorry, the HTML reader wasn't giving a link on preview) on the BBC and, if so, can they remember?
The first electronic programmable computer was Collosus, the Bletchley Park machine that broke the Enigma and Lorenz keys in WW2. The reason ENIAC tends to get mentioned (despite it really only being a calculator, in all honesty) is that Collosus was kept under wraps by the government and destroyed after the war. Also, I don't think it helps that most of the computing and net communities are still based in the USA, where ENIAC was developed IIRC:P
Why on earth was it decided that this was bad enough to warrant moderation to -1 and redundant? I dislike First Post! as much as anyone, but only when the poster has nothing else to say. This guy's making a valid point and the only possible crime is a silghtly OTT bias against MS, but I've seen far worse from many people.
Moderation's useful, but if too many people don't think about the grades the post is given, it's just going to be ignored becuase no-one will trust it.
Well, yes, I had noticed that and was certainly being a little unclear, sure. Nonetheless, Gandhi did say something along that lines, as someone had suggested, and I'm pretty sure that it was what i gave.
Mac users aren't the only ones who don't like Intel chips. This is an Amiga article, you know:)
Yes, the guy made a mistake. Not a big one - the 8088 is as 8 bit as the 68000 is 16 bit IIRC. Still not a good chip, and I'm still yet to find any coders who actually like writing assembly for these chips. Sure, that's not done very often nowadays, but if you're going to look at fundamental chip advantages a nice clean assembly language is a big plus, and it isn't.
Firstly, sorry for posting this in this thread - it's apologising for a message I posted in a thread which I suspect most people long abandoned, so I guessed that not many people would see the apology, rather undermining it. This was the top thread when I posted, so seemed the most visible way of apologising. Flame if you will as I accept this is off-topic, but this seemed the decent thing to do under the circumstances.
Anyway...
A fwe days back now, I posted a message here which wasn't very complimentary to Network Solutions.
I swear it didn't occurr to me that I could check the account status online... Anyway, some helpful individuals did, sent me the URL and pointed out that the invoice is listed as outstanding...
My humble apologies to Network Solutions for sullying their good name - I still feel their help service could be improved, but the information now suggests that it wasn't a random error on their part that lost us the server, but an accounts failure from KOSH.
I swear it didn't occurr to me that I could check the account status online... Anyway, some helpful individuals did, sent me the URL and pointed out that the invoice is listed as outstanding...
My humble apologies to Network Solutions for sullying their good name - I still feel their help service could be improved, but the information now suggests that it wasn't a random error on their part that lost us the server, but an accounts failure from KOSH.
Linux may not be very special from a design standpoint
Thank you, someone who's prepared to say that. And this is the big ptoblem for us. Yes, the kernel's not the interesting bit, but if we're stuck with the wrong kernel it's a big problem. Linux just isn't the right product for trying to build a new BeOS, in effect. Sorry, but for this to work there needs to be a compelling reason to move, and this announcement makes that very unlikely.
Embracing the Linux kernel is the only chance Amiga really has of creating a place for itself.
and
XFree86 running on top of Darwin would have been interesting
As an Amiga fan of many years, no. One of the big attractions of Amigas has been technical superiority and efficiency. Whatever anyone may say, we all have to recongise that Linux isn't anything special from a technical POV and that this is a marketting decision not technical. Same goes for X - too bloated.
We've all stood by Amigas for years because we like the clean efficiency of these machines and still marvel at the phenomenal speed of a machine this old. The technical brief, for me at least, squashes all that and ignores our heritage. It might help a little in the long run, but it's turned off a lot of Amiga fans who liked the idea of being revolutionary and technically superior again and now realise that this just isn't going to happen. I suspect I'm not the only one for whom one of these machines has suddenly moved from a must-by to a wait-and-see, and with not that much faith either.
Oh well, we'll just have to see how it goes. Rather vindicates my decision to work with KOSH though...
It's nice to see that they're getting better, but they're far from perfect.
I've been helping with the KOSH website for some time now, and http://www.kosh.net was our nice, easy to remember server, handling the site and rather a large volume of e-mail lists. 'Bout a month ago now, it dropped off the DNS servers. No explanation, as the sysadmin swears they're paid up, and they still show us as registered. To make it worse, they refuse to offer any explanation or assistance! Quite what's happened we don't know, but it's causing us major hassles and it's doing a good job of killing the project.
Amiga have repeatedly said that they won't make machines, but will instead make the OS/OE and a reference design, which clone partners (who they've apparently already got signed up) then manufacture.
It's nice to see this sort of interest in AMigas, pity so much of it hasn't really followed the story...
Think practical tracking. It's not hugely likely that the development of this distribution can be geographically traced. So, if they'd never announced that it had originated in the US then they could have probably got away with burning a CD, taking it over the border _then_ uploading it. One advantage for community development here -they can't necessarily tell where you are when you write something, but it's pretty obvious where the MS campus is...
TBH, I'm a little worried that anyone's still using this as a good analogy. I'm not necessarily saying that we should all move across to TR networks - market forces have made Ethernet rather better than it was - but there's no denying it's a cleaner way of handling communications.
Ethernet won because it was cheaper, so more people had it, so more people bought it, so it became cheaper,.... you get the picture. VHS won, despite substantially worse picture quality, thanks to getting rental tapes out there in greater numbers. Windows has so far won as it's got more software.
In other words, if you look through, the first format to hit critical mass with the product people buy it to use seems to win, unless a very compelling reason comes along to change (which is why we aren't still all buying NES games!). On that basis, using the Ethernet example, Windows is stuck there and is likely to remain so, as the man in the street doesn't need an alternative, much as we all may dislike that.
So, there's one reason left to stay with the Ethernet analogy - why it took of in the first place. Ethernet built up quicker largely as it was cheaper with no appreciable losses, and GNU/Linux will do the same (or, at least, our writer seems to believe that to be the case). Why's it cheaper? Because it's cutting back on features to save money. Oops, but GNU/Linux is supposed to be better, right?
It's probably no surprise to anyone who's watched my posts that I'm no GNU/Linux worshipper. But this doesn't mean that I don't want something to replace Windows, which I do. The problem is, there's an awful lot of people deluding themselves that Windows is going to lose this one automatically for every reason under the sun. No, it isn't. It's still way simpler to use and it I walk in to PC World I know that the overwhelming majority of stuff that they sell will work with Windows. Until GNU/Linux can crack both of them, which I'm not convinced it can, it's going to remain something used by GPL lovers and techies, nothing more.
:) Definitely. I've loved Amigas for years, and I'll be pretty early in the queue to get one if they over come out. That's not my only current interest though - if you click on my URL link above you'll find details on KOSH, which is looking potentially very nice. Oh, and sorry to people who've had problems with that - the main server ( http://www.kosh.net/) seems to be down ATM.
Sledgehammer to crack a nut that's been reinforced by concrete due to an odd technical decision:)
Yes, giving the system a switched hub reduces this problem, but it's an expensive way to do it that shouldn't be necessary. It's also an extension to Ethernet, patching something old and not very good to make it usable compared to something equally old but lots better.
Yes, Token Ring has it's problems too, but the fundamental design is better. The Ethernet prinsciple of 'Shout until you can't be heard, then back off for a little while before shouiting again' is messy. Passing tokens, OTOH, results in a network that is entirely capable of functioning well at 100% usage. Ethernet tends to hit trouble around 30%.
If we're honest, ethernet won becase of market forces rather than technical superiority, making it a very odd analogy for a GNU/Linux advocate to use.
And from a hardware POV, the x86 platform is decidedly old technology. One big thing I dislike about the GNU/Linux movement is that, with the core platform as x86, it's perpetuating that abomination. Now, I know the reasons why it's done like that but that doesn't mean I don't wish someone would try and be different.
So many people seem to see the computing world as stopping at x86 for home users. Pity, and as soon as someone brings out commodity PPCP boxes ( PIOS anyone?) - or anything else that's any good - I'll do my best to help us all to jump ship.
One problem here - ethernet's a cheap and nasty technology. Try running ethernet with high load and it slows down horrifically. Try Token Ring under those circumstances and it works fine.
I know why he made the comment, but seeing that he asserts that Linux is so wonderful that it'll automatically whip Windows (which isn't what he's saying here, I know - I'm talking about his work in general) it's unfortunate he should use a Windows-style example of a poor product that won due to market forces as his closing remark.
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Nnngghh! Second time posting this one as there appears to be a server bug that killed my last copy...
:)
Firstly, whoever moderated the above to zero should be very ashamed. It's a legitimate opinion, and if Slashdot stops being somewhere where we can all talk about things, it'll die.
Secondly, real pity about this. I'd love a Nino as a toy, simply as WindowsCE includes Jot which seems to be better than Graffiti by all accounts (ditto the on-screen keyboards for that matter, due to WinCE's superior screen design) and the Nino in particular including either smARTwriter or Calligrapher, both of which are supposed to make a rather better stab at this handwrting recognition lark by allowing proper writing (albeit printed only). Yes, it's bigger, heavier and takes more power but if it still fits in a pocket without weighing it down and can be used all day without a charge, who cares? Plus I can get rechargeable with disposable backup, which isn't possible on Palms...
I know CE is supposed to be pretty nasty but if I was seriously looking for something like this, it's be a Nino. Psion 5/Revo's nice, but a keyboard means that I either have to put it down or try and balance it on one hand while typing with the other (I've seen it, and it's worth a laugh!) to use the thing on the move. So, it's got to be an upright and the Nino appears to have by far the easiest data input, letting me take notes properly on it.
Just hope I can find one going cheap as they sell them off
Greg
Dunno if Tom's ever met the guy, but I've been to some of his lectures...
I'm a Comp. Sci student at Reading and I can tell you this guy's mad. Computers are going to take over the world inevitably if you believe him, despite the fact that we still haven't got usable machine intelligence and walking robots are horrificaly unreliable.
TBH, we just get used to the idea that there's this nutter in the next building who does daft things every now and then that get his department money. Nothing more than publicity, really - I'm told by some of his students that the implant into his arm didn't actually work, for example - too low power. He's got a reputation for rigging demos, too.
What we have here is an attention seeking self-publicist, nothing more. So enamoured with his own subject - which doens't actually teach you for anything especially useful - that he's prepared to say any rubbish to get on the news, and people who've not come across him before publish it as fantastic breakthroughs. Please, can we start ignoring him and hoping he'll go away?
Greg
:)
And maybe we should do the same with stories about Linux inevitably taking over the world, or people getting heated up about possible violations of the GPL?
Yes, Amiga have had some interesting publicity recently - though lots of the problems have been caused by the users assuming things that aren't supported - or are even denied - by what Amiga themselves have said. Can't blame us really, with no substantial developments in 6 years.
The point is, people care about this one and Amiga are going to produce an interesting platform from the sounds of things. Give them half a chance, for goodness' sakes.
Greg
It could be that the guy went to Amiga hoping it would take less time than working high up in Gateway then found what the Amiga users were like, y'know...
It's not impossible that he genuinely has resigned for legit reasons, given what the Amiga community's like. I know, I'm still on the fringes of it myself.
I'm still asking myself whether he was jumped or pushed though. He's annoyed me already with the Linux decision which, realistic as it may be, substantially reduced the probability of it turning out anything revolutionary. Downgraded a near-certain purchase to a fairly likely one. Nonetheless, he seems to have made some good decisions too, so I dunno.
Either way, this alone shouldn't influence my likelihood of getting one and I can't see why it should for anyone else.
Greg
I suppose this is nice for the GNU/Linux advocates out there, but...
I can see lots of programmers getting very annoyed about this one and leaving. The reason they're doing this isn't technical superiority, it's cost. By switching, they can remove their own OS teams from the equation and replace them with teams porting the x86 machine code to their architecture (BTW - how long's it going to be before someone reailses that having Linux as platform-dependent is crazy? Assembly code should all go!), thus saving them heaps because they can ride on the backs of the utopian programmers. If I was one of them, I wouldn't want my code being used to benefit all these companies in this way and I'd rapidly stop contributing code.
Greg
Yup, Manchester Mark 1, the Small Scale Experimental Machine or "Baby" is the first that could run a stored program - or at least that's what I've always been taught. I'll have to look into this one from Iowa, but I admit I've never heard it quoted.
I still say that I've only ever heard ENIAC referred to as a calculator...
Greg
The point here is that old sheetas of glass were basically made by blowing a bulb, popping it and then flattening it out - hence the old windows with the bulbous bit and the mark in the middle. Not so good for large sheets of plate glass, so that's floated on mercury and passed through rollers IIRC.
Does anyone else watch Local Heroes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/archive/local_hero es97/index.shtml - sorry, the HTML reader wasn't giving a link on preview) on the BBC and, if so, can they remember?
Greg
The first electronic programmable computer was Collosus, the Bletchley Park machine that broke the Enigma and Lorenz keys in WW2. The reason ENIAC tends to get mentioned (despite it really only being a calculator, in all honesty) is that Collosus was kept under wraps by the government and destroyed after the war. Also, I don't think it helps that most of the computing and net communities are still based in the USA, where ENIAC was developed IIRC :P
Sorry, but that's the truth.
Greg
Erm, Guys...
Why on earth was it decided that this was bad enough to warrant moderation to -1 and redundant? I dislike First Post! as much as anyone, but only when the poster has nothing else to say. This guy's making a valid point and the only possible crime is a silghtly OTT bias against MS, but I've seen far worse from many people.
Moderation's useful, but if too many people don't think about the grades the post is given, it's just going to be ignored becuase no-one will trust it.
Greg
Well, yes, I had noticed that and was certainly being a little unclear, sure. Nonetheless, Gandhi did say something along that lines, as someone had suggested, and I'm pretty sure that it was what i gave.
Everyone clear now?
Greg
Not quite. Ghandi did say something like that, but it was about 'civilisation in England' IIRC, asked by Winston Churchill.
Sorry to be a pedant, feel free to moderate this down!
Greg
Erm...
:)
Mac users aren't the only ones who don't like Intel chips. This is an Amiga article, you know
Yes, the guy made a mistake. Not a big one - the 8088 is as 8 bit as the 68000 is 16 bit IIRC. Still not a good chip, and I'm still yet to find any coders who actually like writing assembly for these chips. Sure, that's not done very often nowadays, but if you're going to look at fundamental chip advantages a nice clean assembly language is a big plus, and it isn't.
Greg
Firstly, sorry for posting this in this thread - it's apologising for a message I posted in a thread which I suspect most people long abandoned, so I guessed that not many people would see the apology, rather undermining it. This was the top thread when I posted, so seemed the most visible way of apologising. Flame if you will as I accept this is off-topic, but this seemed the decent thing to do under the circumstances.
Anyway...
A fwe days back now, I posted a message here which wasn't very complimentary to Network Solutions.
I swear it didn't occurr to me that I could check the account status online... Anyway, some helpful individuals did, sent me the URL and pointed out that the invoice is listed as outstanding...
My humble apologies to Network Solutions for sullying their good name - I still feel their help service could be improved, but the information now suggests that it wasn't a random error on their part that lost us the server, but an accounts failure from KOSH.
Once again, sorry.
Greg
Replying to my own message, I know...
I swear it didn't occurr to me that I could check the account status online... Anyway, some helpful individuals did, sent me the URL and pointed out that the invoice is listed as outstanding...
My humble apologies to Network Solutions for sullying their good name - I still feel their help service could be improved, but the information now suggests that it wasn't a random error on their part that lost us the server, but an accounts failure from KOSH.
Once again, sorry.
Greg
Linux may not be very special from a design standpoint
Thank you, someone who's prepared to say that. And this is the big ptoblem for us. Yes, the kernel's not the interesting bit, but if we're stuck with the wrong kernel it's a big problem. Linux just isn't the right product for trying to build a new BeOS, in effect. Sorry, but for this to work there needs to be a compelling reason to move, and this announcement makes that very unlikely.
Greg
Embracing the Linux kernel is the only chance Amiga really has of creating a place for itself.
and
XFree86 running on top of Darwin would have been interesting
As an Amiga fan of many years, no. One of the big attractions of Amigas has been technical superiority and efficiency. Whatever anyone may say, we all have to recongise that Linux isn't anything special from a technical POV and that this is a marketting decision not technical. Same goes for X - too bloated.
We've all stood by Amigas for years because we like the clean efficiency of these machines and still marvel at the phenomenal speed of a machine this old. The technical brief, for me at least, squashes all that and ignores our heritage. It might help a little in the long run, but it's turned off a lot of Amiga fans who liked the idea of being revolutionary and technically superior again and now realise that this just isn't going to happen. I suspect I'm not the only one for whom one of these machines has suddenly moved from a must-by to a wait-and-see, and with not that much faith either.
Oh well, we'll just have to see how it goes. Rather vindicates my decision to work with KOSH though...
Greg
It's nice to see that they're getting better, but they're far from perfect.
I've been helping with the KOSH website for some time now, and http://www.kosh.net was our nice, easy to remember server, handling the site and rather a large volume of e-mail lists. 'Bout a month ago now, it dropped off the DNS servers. No explanation, as the sysadmin swears they're paid up, and they still show us as registered. To make it worse, they refuse to offer any explanation or assistance! Quite what's happened we don't know, but it's causing us major hassles and it's doing a good job of killing the project.
Anyway, that's my rant...
Greg
Erm, no.
Amiga have repeatedly said that they won't make machines, but will instead make the OS/OE and a reference design, which clone partners (who they've apparently already got signed up) then manufacture.
It's nice to see this sort of interest in AMigas, pity so much of it hasn't really followed the story...
Greg
No, but...
Think practical tracking. It's not hugely likely that the development of this distribution can be geographically traced. So, if they'd never announced that it had originated in the US then they could have probably got away with burning a CD, taking it over the border _then_ uploading it. One advantage for community development here -they can't necessarily tell where you are when you write something, but it's pretty obvious where the MS campus is...
Greg
TBH, I'm a little worried that anyone's still using this as a good analogy. I'm not necessarily saying that we should all move across to TR networks - market forces have made Ethernet rather better than it was - but there's no denying it's a cleaner way of handling communications.
Ethernet won because it was cheaper, so more people had it, so more people bought it, so it became cheaper,.... you get the picture. VHS won, despite substantially worse picture quality, thanks to getting rental tapes out there in greater numbers. Windows has so far won as it's got more software.
In other words, if you look through, the first format to hit critical mass with the product people buy it to use seems to win, unless a very compelling reason comes along to change (which is why we aren't still all buying NES games!). On that basis, using the Ethernet example, Windows is stuck there and is likely to remain so, as the man in the street doesn't need an alternative, much as we all may dislike that.
So, there's one reason left to stay with the Ethernet analogy - why it took of in the first place. Ethernet built up quicker largely as it was cheaper with no appreciable losses, and GNU/Linux will do the same (or, at least, our writer seems to believe that to be the case). Why's it cheaper? Because it's cutting back on features to save money. Oops, but GNU/Linux is supposed to be better, right?
It's probably no surprise to anyone who's watched my posts that I'm no GNU/Linux worshipper. But this doesn't mean that I don't want something to replace Windows, which I do. The problem is, there's an awful lot of people deluding themselves that Windows is going to lose this one automatically for every reason under the sun. No, it isn't. It's still way simpler to use and it I walk in to PC World I know that the overwhelming majority of stuff that they sell will work with Windows. Until GNU/Linux can crack both of them, which I'm not convinced it can, it's going to remain something used by GPL lovers and techies, nothing more.
Greg
:) Definitely. I've loved Amigas for years, and I'll be pretty early in the queue to get one if they over come out. That's not my only current interest though - if you click on my URL link above you'll find details on KOSH, which is looking potentially very nice. Oh, and sorry to people who've had problems with that - the main server ( http://www.kosh.net/) seems to be down ATM.
Greg
Sledgehammer to crack a nut that's been reinforced by concrete due to an odd technical decision :)
Yes, giving the system a switched hub reduces this problem, but it's an expensive way to do it that shouldn't be necessary. It's also an extension to Ethernet, patching something old and not very good to make it usable compared to something equally old but lots better.
Greg
Yes, Token Ring has it's problems too, but the fundamental design is better. The Ethernet prinsciple of 'Shout until you can't be heard, then back off for a little while before shouiting again' is messy. Passing tokens, OTOH, results in a network that is entirely capable of functioning well at 100% usage. Ethernet tends to hit trouble around 30%.
If we're honest, ethernet won becase of market forces rather than technical superiority, making it a very odd analogy for a GNU/Linux advocate to use.
Point made?
Greg
And from a hardware POV, the x86 platform is decidedly old technology. One big thing I dislike about the GNU/Linux movement is that, with the core platform as x86, it's perpetuating that abomination. Now, I know the reasons why it's done like that but that doesn't mean I don't wish someone would try and be different.
So many people seem to see the computing world as stopping at x86 for home users. Pity, and as soon as someone brings out commodity PPCP boxes ( PIOS anyone?) - or anything else that's any good - I'll do my best to help us all to jump ship.
Greg
One problem here - ethernet's a cheap and nasty technology. Try running ethernet with high load and it slows down horrifically. Try Token Ring under those circumstances and it works fine.
I know why he made the comment, but seeing that he
asserts that Linux is so wonderful that it'll automatically whip Windows (which isn't what he's saying here, I know - I'm talking about his work in general) it's unfortunate he should use a Windows-style example of a poor product that won due to market forces as his closing remark.
Greg