If you want to keep running MacOS you basically have two choices:
1. Get a terminal program and a suitable null modem cable. Follow the text-terminal howto (or whatever) and you're go. I've tried old SEs with ZTerm and Kermit (ZTerm was nice:)
2. Get ConfigPPP and the works and set up a PPP link. Then fetch NCSA Telnet or BetterTelnet.
So ? I replied to a question about the number of platforms, not the number of common platforms. Besides, there's nothing wrong with fringe hardware (that's the way you make it sound:) If you want to conform and use what 99% of the world uses you can get Windows.
You see, I get this weird hardware from time to time and It's nice that there's an OS that supports them. Besides, when you're doing embedded programming it helps that there's a portable OS. The sheer number of platforms is a side effect of portable code.
To quote BOFH: "Right, I'm your temporary replacement demonstrator and today we're going to put our assignments aside for half an hour to learn about the REMARK function, or, as it's known to the computer literate world, rm..."
Seriously though (considering the parent post is a troll) WTF should you give the root password to these clueless newbies ? That is one of the biggest problems for MS shops, so if you want to avoid trouble keep the root/administrator passwords away from lusers. Or let them fix the mess..
So many features, so little time... Let me see. IPv6, softdeps, integrated crypto (might happen, at least in part due to the RSA patent expiration. We'll see what happens to cryptosrc-intl and domestic) etc...
The changelist from 1.4 to 1.5 is here. Since the 1.5 branch is effectively frozen the 1.5 to 1.6 changelog is here.
I'm actually testing the 1.5ALPHA releases at the moment. Looks OK.
Probably not. Unless I'm very mistaken they're auctioning the licenses for 3rd generation GSM (gprs/umts whatever) to operators. England got a shitload of money doing that. Basically the cost of obtaining the license tricles down to the consumer, which is why I'm happy that Finland won't be auctioning them (the calls are expensive anyway.)
As mentioned on other posts the 2.4GHz range is free to use (unlicensed) for low power devices.
After a while they do become boring... but apparently they're needed to "sell the product" to the upper management. Whatever. I couldn't care less about things as "user base" and such. (My chosen BSD) works for me.
Now for some real news: Did you know that you can now get access (source license) to different BSD-versions from 1BSD via 2.xBSD, 3BSD and upto 4.3BSD-Reno ?? Yes,siree!
A click through license available a here.. PUPS archives contain a lot of other material too...
Now just dig out that VAX 11/780 from the closet and start hacking!
Yes, VMS is monolithic and very definitely hardware-dependent. If you compare the VAX architecture manual and "VMS 4.4 Internals and Data structures" it's hard to see which was designed around which. Yet Digital managed to port the darn thing to Alpha.
And as for NT's microkernel design, now that's a thing which could be classified as odd. Sure it seems to work but what was the original point of microkernels ?? Small size ? Flexibility ? Reliability ? Having graphics drivers in ring 0?
(Hey! we could imitate the Torvalds vs. Tanenbaum microkernel debate...:)
Oh my.. One by one: Linux does not run on Dreamcast machines, they did the initial port from OpenBSD sources which branched from NetBSD and the SH3 stuff they are using is from NetBSD.
And NT does run on a 64 bit cpu (like Linux and NetBSD) but it only uses 32 bits (like Linux). The cpu in question is the Alpha. Didn't see it mentioned either. I honestly don't know who to blaim, wintel conspiracy or Digital's stealth marketing techniques.
And besides, no mention of OpenVMS ??? They (Cutler) stole everything from VMS, except for the reliability. Cutler's just a bitter man due to the cancelled PRISM...
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If you want to keep running MacOS you basically have two choices:
1. Get a terminal program and a suitable null modem cable. Follow the text-terminal howto (or whatever) and you're go. I've tried old SEs with ZTerm and Kermit (ZTerm was nice:)
2. Get ConfigPPP and the works and set up a PPP link. Then fetch NCSA Telnet or BetterTelnet.
I say we resurect COBOL on the PRIME MiniComputer
Dear Mister Troll: It's not PRIME but PR1ME.
Please look at this picture.
So ? I replied to a question about the number of platforms, not the number of common platforms. Besides, there's nothing wrong with fringe hardware (that's the way you make it sound:) If you want to conform and use what 99% of the world uses you can get Windows.
You see, I get this weird hardware from time to time and It's nice that there's an OS that supports them. Besides, when you're doing embedded programming it helps that there's a portable OS. The sheer number of platforms is a side effect of portable code.
Well you might want to prove that. Please show me a Linux distribution (yes distribution, no gross kernel hacks) with a unified, clean source tree complete with all the platforms in the tree.
To quote BOFH:
"Right, I'm your temporary replacement demonstrator and today we're going to put our assignments aside for half an hour to learn about the REMARK function, or, as it's known to the computer literate world, rm..."
Seriously though (considering the parent post is a troll) WTF should you give the root password to these clueless newbies ? That is one of the biggest problems for MS shops, so if you want to avoid trouble keep the root/administrator passwords away from lusers. Or let them fix the mess..
Oh yeah, my Pentium 120 just screams.
You lucky, lucky, lucky bastard!!
Would you mind trading it to my "f00f-bug,float bug enabled 75MHz OC'd to 100MHz with one of the corner pins broken" PC Performance Leader?
So many features, so little time ...
Let me see. IPv6, softdeps, integrated crypto (might happen, at least in part due to the RSA patent expiration. We'll see what happens to cryptosrc-intl and domestic) etc...
The changelist from 1.4 to 1.5 is here. Since the 1.5 branch is effectively frozen the 1.5 to 1.6 changelog is here.
I'm actually testing the 1.5ALPHA releases at the moment. Looks OK.
And here are detailed instructions for NetBSD.
Probably not. Unless I'm very mistaken they're auctioning the licenses for 3rd generation GSM (gprs/umts whatever) to operators. England got a shitload of money doing that. Basically the cost of obtaining the license tricles down to the consumer, which is why I'm happy that Finland won't be auctioning them (the calls are expensive anyway.)
As mentioned on other posts the 2.4GHz range is free to use (unlicensed) for low power devices.
After a while they do become boring... but apparently they're needed to "sell the product" to the upper management. Whatever. I couldn't care less about things as "user base" and such. (My chosen BSD) works for me.
Now for some real news:
Did you know that you can now get access (source license) to different BSD-versions from 1BSD via 2.xBSD, 3BSD and upto 4.3BSD-Reno ?? Yes,siree!
A click through license available a here.. PUPS archives contain a lot of other material too...
Now just dig out that VAX 11/780 from the closet and start hacking!
>and a pair of Z8000-based machines, possibly the
>first microprocessor-based
>machines on the Internet.
Were they by any chance Onyxes ?
It's been there for a while. I'm just browsing through 4.3BSD-Reno source. Link here.
NetBSD does support IP Filter! Just see here.
:-)
Im not the best example, but please check the facts before posting..
Yes, VMS is monolithic and very definitely hardware-dependent. If you compare the VAX architecture manual and "VMS 4.4 Internals and Data structures" it's hard to see which was designed around which. Yet Digital managed to port the darn thing to Alpha.
And as for NT's microkernel design, now that's a thing which could be classified as odd. Sure it seems to work but what was the original point of microkernels ?? Small size ? Flexibility ? Reliability ? Having graphics drivers in ring 0?
(Hey! we could imitate the Torvalds vs. Tanenbaum microkernel debate...:)
Whoooops!!!
Sorry about that, guess I made the mistake of being stuck in the 1.x.x.x days.
Ah well, a good rant does consist of a healthy dose of FUD and the daily allowed dosage of false facts...
Oh my..
One by one: Linux does not run on Dreamcast machines, they did the initial port from OpenBSD sources which branched from NetBSD and the SH3 stuff they are using is from NetBSD.
And NT does run on a 64 bit cpu (like Linux and
NetBSD) but it only uses 32 bits (like Linux). The cpu in question is the Alpha. Didn't see it mentioned either. I honestly don't know who to blaim, wintel conspiracy or Digital's stealth marketing techniques.
And besides, no mention of OpenVMS ??? They (Cutler) stole everything from VMS, except for the reliability. Cutler's just a bitter man due to the cancelled PRISM...
I've seen some talk about vaxlinux, but
NetBSD already has VAX support and it
supports about a dozen
other platforms as well!
And remember, NetBSD is *the* multiplatform OS!