I agree that this will probably fail like Apple's look and feel lawsuits. But I am thinking that the NeXT OS's use of dockable icons is really prior art to dockable tabs. I thought that Norton Desktop for Windows (circa 1993) had dockable tabs. Then maybe someone could pitch in, but there was a set of tools for Windows 3.1, all I rember is hDC, and I thought you could dock tabbed menus. I don't particulary like a lot of what Warnock has been saying lately, but this takes the cake for stupidity.
He's a hero for participating in an anti-poverty march during the largest economic expansion in history? Sorry, I fail to see how he is a hero. I think the guy just needs a life. BTW, WTF is this doing on/. anyway? If he was protesting the DCMA or the MPAA, then I would understand.
...sorry it had to be said. I guess I would actually like to play with OS X. I've missed using NeXT for about 7 or 8 years. There was a *nix OS that was powerful AND user-friendly.
Yes, but HOW much parallism can be extracted from most programs? As I understand it, the RISC architecture provides more optimization at runtime. I am interested to see Merced perform, but remember that the DEC guys have really put a lot of work into the compiler for the AXP and it is quite mature. I think it will take Merced a couuple of years for the compiler to matuure.
Ok. I think that the guy who wrote that is missing a few key ideas. Unfortunately, EPIC does NOT magically fix Inter Process Commuunication, nor is it a magic bullet. It DOES have a very heavy reliance on the compiler, but that is because the compiler will try to provide parallelism for the code. For a good article, take a look at this article from Byte Dec. 97: http://www.byte.com/art/9712/sec5/art1.htm
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You don't want to admit doing it and it gets a little messy sometimes, but you sometimes need old Rosy to get the dirty deed done quickly.
Ahmen.
I agree that this will probably fail like Apple's look and feel lawsuits. But I am thinking that the NeXT OS's use of dockable icons is really prior art to dockable tabs. I thought that Norton Desktop for Windows (circa 1993) had dockable tabs. Then maybe someone could pitch in, but there was a set of tools for Windows 3.1, all I rember is hDC, and I thought you could dock tabbed menus. I don't particulary like a lot of what Warnock has been saying lately, but this takes the cake for stupidity.
He's a hero for participating in an anti-poverty march during the largest economic expansion in history? Sorry, I fail to see how he is a hero. I think the guy just needs a life. BTW, WTF is this doing on /. anyway? If he was protesting the DCMA or the MPAA, then I would understand.
...Then he would have a secure system.
OpenBSD - Armed to the gills.
...sorry it had to be said. I guess I would actually like to play with OS X. I've missed using NeXT for about 7 or 8 years. There was a *nix OS that was powerful AND user-friendly.
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Yes, but HOW much parallism can be extracted from most programs? As I understand it, the RISC architecture provides more optimization at runtime. I am interested to see Merced perform, but remember that the DEC guys have really put a lot of work into the compiler for the AXP and it is quite mature. I think it will take Merced a couuple of years for the compiler to matuure.
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Ok. I think that the guy who wrote that is missing a few key ideas. Unfortunately, EPIC does NOT magically fix Inter Process Commuunication, nor is it a magic bullet. It DOES have a very heavy reliance on the compiler, but that is because the compiler will try to provide parallelism for the code. For a good article, take a look at this article from Byte Dec. 97: http://www.byte.com/art/9712/sec5/art1.htm
Doug