Apple has always been dependent on Microsoft for applications. Bill Gates supported the Mac strongly when it was launched. Linux has got where it is now without any support from Microsoft, and it has proved that it is useful with or without MS applications.
It's been used on linux-kernel this week. Along with the fact that when Microsoft splits, we will have Micros~1, Micros~2, Micros~3 and Micros~4. (I think those should have the extension.com though.)
The MS model is more like: 1/ marketing dude gets a bright idea, 2/ engineering does a half-baked implementation, 3/ the API is cast in stone and any mistakes in the design process are carried forward forever.
A bit like the Unix mode: 1/ Berkeley student gets a bright idea, 2/ Berkeley writes half-baked code and paper, 3/ POSIX casts the API in stone any any mistakes... ?
OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but some of POSIX is pretty dumb for the same reasons that some of Win32 is.
Just out of curiousity: Do you weenies put a little picture of Linus at the top of your bed when you're going solo with the palm sisters? It sure seems that way...
I certainly don't.
The guy made a wanko micro-kernel that was derived from someone elses work.
That's the first I've heard of it. It looks like a conventional monolithic Unix kernel to me, and I'm sure Linus would say the same.
Oh, and pulled all the GNU software under his umbrella as well.
Oh, aren't we supposed to use GNU software then? I don't think Linus ever claimed to be responsible for any of that, even if users and distributors have blurred the line.
What a HERO.
The glorious revolutionaries behind your-choice-of-BSD are probably much better leaders than Linus, who hasn't achieved any splits so far.
Um, ActiveX controls are always written in native code. Sorry to spoil any illusions of safety you might have had. ActiveX controls intended for use with IE should be considered similar to plugins and treated with the same degree of caution.
The A4000 sucked compared to *contemporary* PCs in most departments - it had slow graphics, slow IDE interface, slow memory bus. Of course it had a few Amiga advantages, but it was really a disappointment.
I expect that Sony will do the first step for us - namely, porting egcs.
The "Emotion Engine" and other stories...
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Backwards compatibility! Come on Sony, a DVD-ROM drive will read those old PSX games, and there's a huge market full of them. Imagine the boost the new system would get at launch from kids being able to play hundreds of games already in rental stores and their own collections!
Backwards compatibility is a minus point for the manufacturer. Consoles are generally sold at a loss, subsidised by the licensing fees from games (and profits from games published directly by the manufacturer). It is in the manufacturer's best interest to have customers replace their old games rather than continuing to play them. I don't think a small increase in early hardware sales due to the attraction of backwards compatibility outweighs the reduction in games sales.
The "Emotion Engine" and other stories...
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Backwards compatibility! Come on Sony, a DVD-ROM drive will read those old PSX games, and there's a huge market full of them. Imagine the boost the new system would get at launch from kids being able to play hundreds of games already in rental stores and their own collections!
Backwards compatibility is a minus point for the manufacturer. Consoles are generally sold at a loss, subsidised by the licensing fees from games (and profits from games published directly by the manufacturer). It is in the manufacturer's best interest to have customers replace their old games rather than continuing to play them. I don't think a small increase in early hardware sales due to the attraction of backwards compatibility outweighs the reduction in games sales.
The "Emotion Engine" and other stories...
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Playstation 2 Specs
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Backwards compatibility! Come on Sony, a DVD-ROM drive will read those old PSX games, and there's a huge market full of them. Imagine the boost the new system would get at launch from kids being able to play hundreds of games already in rental stores and their own collections!
Backwards compatibility is a minus point for the manufacturer. Consoles are generally sold at a loss, subsidised by the licensing fees from games (and profits from games published directly by the manufacturer). It is in the manufacturer's best interest to have customers replace their old games rather than continuing to play them. I don't think a small increase in early hardware sales due to the attraction of backwards compatibility outweighs the reduced games sales.
This is why you should never hire MIS graduates to be your IT managers. After all, clock speed means zilch when compared to a real measure of speed like MIPS.
Measuring processor speed in MIPS still doesn't tell you much about real performance, i.e. how fast can your applications run. Every benchmark is an artificial test, and measures of MIPS are among the most artificial.
Word for Windows jumped from version 2 to version 6 to match the DOS and Mac versions. If you include the pre-Windows versions, then there really have been 8 major versions.
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Of course "bad memory" matters to Windows! It's just that Windows users assume that crashes caused by bad memory are due to Windows bugs, and don't realise they are a hardware problem.
Two major computer makers, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics, are to support the free software product Linux operating system got a boost from...
Is this supposed to be English?
HP is offering Linux on its Intel-based server computers through an arrangement with Red Hat Software, which is trying to commercialize the language...
Two major computer makers, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics, are to support the free software product Linux operating system got a boost from...
Is this supposed to be English?
HP is offering Linux on its Intel-based server computers through an arrangement with Red Hat Software, which is trying to commercialize the language...
It is not. Check Documentation/Changes for full information. Also note that if you enable APM power-off that is triggered separately from a halt, and you need a newer SysVinit to do that.
It's not worth the effort. You've have to ensure bug-compatibility with each different version of MFC. Furthermore there are multiple versions of MFC that have the same name (mfcXX.dll) and different bugs! Many application developers now include it in the application directory rather than the system directory, to avoid problems with different versions. It would not be wise for the WINE developers to over-ride these local copies.
SCSI is way overpriced and it is just waiting for something to topple it.
SCSI comes at a high price mainly because most people buy IDE shit - and of course that results in a vicious circle.
BTW UltraDMA is doing just that, easing the burden on the CPU,
DMA IDE interfaces have been around for a while - that's why there's the "Ultra" in UltraDMA to indicate that it's a faster DMA mode.
This happens for really one specific reason - it is CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP.
It's not as simple as that. IDE was introduced as a backwards-compatible replacement for ST506-type controllers, offering better performance at around the same price. The original IDE interfaces were simply buffered interfaces to a subset of the ISA bus. IDE drives emulate the registers of an ST506-type controller, but with an extended command set. This means that no changes to BIOS or OS code were needed to support IDE drives initially.
All the backwards-compatibility hacks that are involved in today's drives makes them pretty complex and should make them more expensive than SCSI drives. However, that compatibility allowed IDE to sweep the PC market in the early 1990s and meant they could be produced in huge quantities, and hence more cheaply than SCSI drives.
Since IDE took over the low end of the market, most SCSI drives are high-end products with additional features over IDE. This increases the price differential further.
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In what way is this "free movie ticket" free?
Apple has always been dependent on Microsoft for applications. Bill Gates supported the Mac strongly when it was launched. Linux has got where it is now without any support from Microsoft, and it has proved that it is useful with or without MS applications.
It's been used on linux-kernel this week. Along with the fact that when Microsoft splits, we will have Micros~1, Micros~2, Micros~3 and Micros~4. (I think those should have the extension .com though.)
A bit like the Unix mode: 1/ Berkeley student gets a bright idea, 2/ Berkeley writes half-baked code and paper, 3/ POSIX casts the API in stone any any mistakes... ?
OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but some of POSIX is pretty dumb for the same reasons that some of Win32 is.
I certainly don't.
That's the first I've heard of it. It looks like a conventional monolithic Unix kernel to me, and I'm sure Linus would say the same.
Oh, aren't we supposed to use GNU software then? I don't think Linus ever claimed to be responsible for any of that, even if users and distributors have blurred the line.
The glorious revolutionaries behind your-choice-of-BSD are probably much better leaders than Linus, who hasn't achieved any splits so far.
I find that really difficult to believe. It sounds like the usual paranoid nonsense I remember from reading alt.fan.bill-gates.
Just some crap Bowie Poag came up with after he got bored of saying that "AmIgA r00lz Pc sux" and advocating violence against homosexuals.
Um, ActiveX controls are always written in native code. Sorry to spoil any illusions of safety you might have had. ActiveX controls intended for use with IE should be considered similar to plugins and treated with the same degree of caution.
The A4000 sucked compared to *contemporary* PCs in most departments - it had slow graphics, slow IDE interface, slow memory bus. Of course it had a few Amiga advantages, but it was really a disappointment.
I expect that Sony will do the first step for us - namely, porting egcs.
Backwards compatibility is a minus point for the manufacturer. Consoles are generally sold at a loss, subsidised by the licensing fees from games (and profits from games published directly by the manufacturer). It is in the manufacturer's best interest to have customers replace their old games rather than continuing to play them. I don't think a small increase in early hardware sales due to the attraction of backwards compatibility outweighs the reduction in games sales.
Backwards compatibility is a minus point for the manufacturer. Consoles are generally sold at a loss, subsidised by the licensing fees from games (and profits from games published directly by the manufacturer). It is in the manufacturer's best interest to have customers replace their old games rather than continuing to play them. I don't think a small increase in early hardware sales due to the attraction of backwards compatibility outweighs the reduction in games sales.
Backwards compatibility is a minus point for the manufacturer. Consoles are generally sold at a loss, subsidised by the licensing fees from games (and profits from games published directly by the manufacturer). It is in the manufacturer's best interest to have customers replace their old games rather than continuing to play them. I don't think a small increase in early hardware sales due to the attraction of backwards compatibility outweighs the reduced games sales.
I forgot to point out that you can, of course, simply resell the software if you have not agreed to a license forbidding this.
Great! Now your computer can reboot without warning due to an off-by-one error. How about getting the 2.2.1 patch and applying it right now?
Measuring processor speed in MIPS still doesn't tell you much about real performance, i.e. how fast can your applications run. Every benchmark is an artificial test, and measures of MIPS are among the most artificial.
Or is it just something IBM did 30 years ago. Hmm.
Word for Windows jumped from version 2 to version 6 to match the DOS and Mac versions. If you include the pre-Windows versions, then there really have been 8 major versions.
Of course "bad memory" matters to Windows! It's just that Windows users assume that crashes caused by bad memory are due to Windows bugs, and don't realise they are a hardware problem.
Is this supposed to be English?
Since when has Linux been a language?
Is this supposed to be English?
Since when has Linux been a language?
It is not. Check Documentation/Changes for full information. Also note that if you enable APM power-off that is triggered separately from a halt, and you need a newer SysVinit to do that.
It's not worth the effort. You've have to ensure bug-compatibility with each different version of MFC. Furthermore there are multiple versions of MFC that have the same name (mfcXX.dll) and different bugs! Many application developers now include it in the application directory rather than the system directory, to avoid problems with different versions. It would not be wise for the WINE developers to over-ride these local copies.
SCSI comes at a high price mainly because most people buy IDE shit - and of course that results in a vicious circle.
DMA IDE interfaces have been around for a while - that's why there's the "Ultra" in UltraDMA to indicate that it's a faster DMA mode.
It's not as simple as that. IDE was introduced as a backwards-compatible replacement for ST506-type controllers, offering better performance at around the same price. The original IDE interfaces were simply buffered interfaces to a subset of the ISA bus. IDE drives emulate the registers of an ST506-type controller, but with an extended command set. This means that no changes to BIOS or OS code were needed to support IDE drives initially.
All the backwards-compatibility hacks that are involved in today's drives makes them pretty complex and should make them more expensive than SCSI drives. However, that compatibility allowed IDE to sweep the PC market in the early 1990s and meant they could be produced in huge quantities, and hence more cheaply than SCSI drives.
Since IDE took over the low end of the market, most SCSI drives are high-end products with additional features over IDE. This increases the price differential further.
Is the data in the preferred form for modification? I rather suspect that the preferred form is a database of some sort.