Why? Single purpose appliance can still run hundreds of applications simultaneously (bit, logging, control, monitoring, databases access. All in real time). I did testing on hardware maybe 15 years ago with 10,000 threads showing a 1-2% context switch overhead.
I've gotten to play with many operating systems..vx, minix, psos, linux, nt, 5 or 6 home grown varieties. They all more or less provide the same primitives - processing, object and temporal and sometimes spacial separation. From the Zircon Kernel Concepts section it looks like the same stuff and concepts as posix...but it did have wait_for_many() from nt land. Don't think posix had that. Maybe borrowed some object ideas from Plan9?
Inflation adjusted, a 26" color tv would have cost me 21% of my income in 1980. In 2018, a 32" flat panel tv costs me 0.9% of my income.
In 1972 (because I couldn't find 1980 prices), a refrigerator would have cost me 21% of my income, while today it costs 3.7% of my income while using 1/3rd the amount of energy. And the $ ammounts do not include the intangible increases in quality (better for the environment, safer, less energy useage).
I liked the whole explanation and development of psycho history, as well as how a civilization collapses, having read a number of history books on the subject. I read once that Asimov based Foundation on the mathematician and historian Oswald Spengler's work Der Untergang des Abendlandes.
If computers can do facial recognition and drive cars better than humans, why can't they detect targets and threats better also? I don't follow the logic here.
The definitions have changed. In my nerd career, I've designed and built complex electronics, have years working on ASICs, CPUs for major corporations, worked on satellites, particle accelerators and deep space probes. But I'm not a gamer (but did work on ASICs for a mainstream console), don't know (much less care) how to fb and have not seen a comic book movie since The Matrix and this pretty much disqualifies me as being a modern day nerd or being tech savvy. The hordes have won.
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Why? Single purpose appliance can still run hundreds of applications simultaneously (bit, logging, control, monitoring, databases access. All in real time). I did testing on hardware maybe 15 years ago with 10,000 threads showing a 1-2% context switch overhead.
I've gotten to play with many operating systems..vx, minix, psos, linux, nt, 5 or 6 home grown varieties. They all more or less provide the same primitives - processing, object and temporal and sometimes spacial separation. From the Zircon Kernel Concepts section it looks like the same stuff and concepts as posix...but it did have wait_for_many() from nt land. Don't think posix had that. Maybe borrowed some object ideas from Plan9?
I've worked on a number of microkernel systems with no problems. They are used in many many consumer and industrial embedded systems.
latency for process switching
Has this been a problem for decades on user devices?
Neither.
In 1972 (because I couldn't find 1980 prices), a refrigerator would have cost me 21% of my income, while today it costs 3.7% of my income while using 1/3rd the amount of energy. And the $ ammounts do not include the intangible increases in quality (better for the environment, safer, less energy useage).
Unfortunately it was sent to be scrapped. Or so we were told.
I liked the whole explanation and development of psycho history, as well as how a civilization collapses, having read a number of history books on the subject. I read once that Asimov based Foundation on the mathematician and historian Oswald Spengler's work Der Untergang des Abendlandes.
Every city in the US is already highly automated.
It's true. I was in a casino last years and while I saw maybe 3-4 dozen card tables, I saw hundreds of slot and video game machines. /s
I make less than $20k/year, yet am extremely wealthy by 1900's standards, probably 1980's standards by most measures.
If computers can do facial recognition and drive cars better than humans, why can't they detect targets and threats better also? I don't follow the logic here.
Kinda like a bomb, but with less unintended damage?
How FOSTA Could Give Hollywood the Filters It's Long Wanted
They saved us from IBM, then Microsoft. The companies they listed are in even more precarious positions.
Why no use a robot to stack blocks? Or even better, the future tenants to give them something to do?
The energy comes from the sun, but like most systems, everything in the house run off the inverter connected to a battery bank.
could be the hot setup in a world without physics
My current home has been powered by batteries for ten years
I don't have any internet accounts worth securing
Or yahoo groups
making money from the free flow of information
For years...decades.... slashdot has droned on about how "data want's to be free" and open. Why the change of heart?
The definitions have changed. In my nerd career, I've designed and built complex electronics, have years working on ASICs, CPUs for major corporations, worked on satellites, particle accelerators and deep space probes. But I'm not a gamer (but did work on ASICs for a mainstream console), don't know (much less care) how to fb and have not seen a comic book movie since The Matrix and this pretty much disqualifies me as being a modern day nerd or being tech savvy. The hordes have won.
/. cookie, If all else fails, lower your standards.
Quality /. submission.