A case in point, my favorite station is
www.wdvx.com (americana) which only plays microsoft
media because the time is donated and that is their only choice. So, I have to use vmware to play my favorite internet radio.
wrong. Imagine all the waste of all nuclear plants in the US combined over their lifetimes. It will fit in a football field stacked up a few stories high. Now imagine all the waste of the same power source (equivalent) of coal-fired power plants. Where is the waste? Everywhere. With Nukes, you know where the waste is. The most environmentally friendly power source is nuclear. Now imagine all the windmills it will take to equal one Nuke plant. I am looking at 3 of them now from my back yard at TVA's Buffalo Mountain project. It will take 3 thousand of them which will leave absolutely no mountain, trees, or anything else for that matter. Get real man and get out of your closed world.
I forgot to mention in my previous post that we also used DV/X (about 1990-1991) for a near-real-time simulation and control system. We had a simulator of a nuclear power plant programed in FORTRAN running in one window of DV/X. In the other window we had an I/O interface transfering data between the simulator and a *REAL* control system that was connected to the *REAL* instruments. The signals to the instruments were simulated, but it was a live system. It worked pretty well and allowed us BFI (brute force and ignorance) engineers to get paid for a digital control system development on a nuclear power plant without having to pay big bucks to interface and program a real-time operating system.
And, incidently, the digital controller is still in use today and the regulators approved the system.
I used it for quite a while until I started using
Linux (1994). Best multi-tasker on a PC prior to Linux. It did display Win3.1 and X both. I don't think I ever used W95 with it. There may be some code secrets in there that could help WINE, but I would not be one to say.
My employer has still not replaced all the OSes
from Win95 to Win-?. We now have a mixture of several different versions. Maybe this will be the
catalyst to finally get folks to look seriously at
Linux. I for one, have used Linux exclusively since '94 when Desqview/X bit the dust. (there are
also several hundred Linux installations here out of thousands of desktops).
The Alpha stands alone as the fastest floating
point processor for the money (bang for the buck).
With the Compaq cc and fortran compilers, this beast blows away anything else. For scientific and engineering applications, none better. Of course, I recall Linus said years ago the future for Linux was in games not calculations. I think he has underestimated the calculations side.
So why in the h$#% are we allowing Compaq to rid
itself of Alpha processors? For those of us
fortunate enough to have them (I use two at work),
they are unbelievable number crunchers. Why? Why?
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A case in point, my favorite station is www.wdvx.com (americana) which only plays microsoft media because the time is donated and that is their only choice. So, I have to use vmware to play my favorite internet radio.
wrong. Imagine all the waste of all nuclear plants in the US combined over their lifetimes. It will fit in a football field stacked up a few stories high. Now imagine all the waste of the same power source (equivalent) of coal-fired power plants. Where is the waste? Everywhere. With Nukes, you know where the waste is. The most environmentally friendly power source is nuclear. Now imagine all the windmills it will take to equal one Nuke plant. I am looking at 3 of them now from my back yard at TVA's Buffalo Mountain project. It will take 3 thousand of them which will leave absolutely no mountain, trees, or anything else for that matter. Get real man and get out of your closed world.
Trouble is, when do you ever reboot Linux except when a new kernel is built?
I forgot to mention in my previous post that we also used DV/X (about 1990-1991) for a near-real-time simulation and control system. We had a simulator of a nuclear power plant programed in FORTRAN running in one window of DV/X. In the other window we had an I/O interface transfering data between the simulator and a *REAL* control system that was connected to the *REAL* instruments. The signals to the instruments were simulated, but it was a live system. It worked pretty well and allowed us BFI (brute force and ignorance) engineers to get paid for a digital control system development on a nuclear power plant without having to pay big bucks to interface and program a real-time operating system. And, incidently, the digital controller is still in use today and the regulators approved the system.
I used it for quite a while until I started using Linux (1994). Best multi-tasker on a PC prior to Linux. It did display Win3.1 and X both. I don't think I ever used W95 with it. There may be some code secrets in there that could help WINE, but I would not be one to say.
My employer has still not replaced all the OSes from Win95 to Win-?. We now have a mixture of several different versions. Maybe this will be the catalyst to finally get folks to look seriously at Linux. I for one, have used Linux exclusively since '94 when Desqview/X bit the dust. (there are also several hundred Linux installations here out of thousands of desktops).
The Alpha stands alone as the fastest floating point processor for the money (bang for the buck). With the Compaq cc and fortran compilers, this beast blows away anything else. For scientific and engineering applications, none better. Of course, I recall Linus said years ago the future for Linux was in games not calculations. I think he has underestimated the calculations side.
So why in the h$#% are we allowing Compaq to rid itself of Alpha processors? For those of us fortunate enough to have them (I use two at work), they are unbelievable number crunchers. Why? Why?