That is all fine and all... except that the vax does process protection through adress translation not processor mode bits. Are you sure it was a VAX you were using...
Also if he had to reinstall VMS to restart it, it does not seem to me that sysadmin was clueful at all.
Hahahaha hahah hahahah hahaha, that was funny. Is this the first right wing troll i have seen in Slashdot today.
Thanks mate, you just made my day. You may not be aware of this, but there are plenty of conservative news outlets and even *gasp* political parties in Europe. At least those outlets and politicians have the balls to let other people know they are conservative. Unlike the conservative outlets in the US which try to pretend they are "fair and balanced"
Oh, and in Europe people actually understand the difference between reporting and editorial. Most US news outlets have forgotten the distinction.
But yeah, the US is has a far better track record when it comes to freedom of speech, unless it involves nudity, or strong language, or unpopular opinions, or bad comments about the president during a time of "war," or graphic images of destruction, or....
Well most of the place is a very big marsh, so unless you have a Segway that can thread through watter you are going to be stuck in the mud right off the bat.
Huh.... no. The cache is made of SRAM, which is very very very very expensive in terms of power consumption and dissipation.
The power dissipated due to board level capacitance/inductance issues could be almost marginal in comparison to the power needed to feed the 2MB on chip cache. Those millions of transistors are quite a sink since they are on most of the time (I am sure they may use some power saving design and the cache may be implemented using dynamic ram even).
The cache is there to increase performance due to the overall lower clock speed. Which makes sense because the latest PIV parts have been rather unbalanced machines.
But... that is impossible, the US has never ever ever done anything bad. It is only foreigners, and who gives a shit about foreigners, there is only like what 5 billion of them?
The parent of this thread must have been one of the most retarded, self centered, ignorant posters in Slashdot that I have read in a while, and that my friends is a pretty big deal!
Typical American mentality, the end justifies the means... as long as the means screw someone else that is. I do not see Americans blacklisting their major ISPs...
Yah, it is always great when someone else is getting screwed so things get fixed. I am sure if it was your e-mail being blocked you may not be so understanding. But hey typical yankee mentality, afterall no spam ever came out of the good ol' USA, no siree bob!
You assume that the only goal of having sex is procreation, and you talk about puritanical attitudes! LOL....
You can procreate as early as 12 years old, just because you can it doesn't mean that you should do it. Using evolution as an argument is pointless since you chose to ignore the actual social context. Evolution also allowed us to pee standing up, I guess that means I can wip out my willie here and start peeing in my cubicle, eh?
I suggest you actually read on the machine, before you give me lessons on argumental fallacies. And BTW you clearly used the "straw man" approach oddly enough... never answered my point, made up your own point that I did not make and shoot me down. LOL! The machine was never intended for commercial use, in fact its funding was almost 100% government.
But hey, the fact that you actually know nothing about what stretch was or what it was about would never stop you from patronizing people, right?
Well, given that Stretch was one of the most successful research efforts in computer architecture ever, I have no clue why would you consider it to be a bad thing to put on one's resume.
About 1/2 of modern architectural concepts that we take for granted in current mircroarchitectures were first introduced in stretch. It was that important.
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Actually the investigation on the crash of the Beagle II was pointing towards a difference in the expected density of the Martian atmosphere casuing the landing mechanism to fail (i.e. it came in too fast). A lot of the probes have to "brake" by skidding through the upper layers of the atmosphere, which can be rather risky but necessary sometimes for the corret orbital positioning.
Martian atmospheric conditions are rather important for landing probes.
And to the previous poster, well it turns out that Europa has an atmosphere. Galileo returned data on the ionosphere and atmospheric conditions on Europa, that is why further study is needed on such atmosphere as the original poster in this thread sugested.
Nope, Unicos/mk runs on the T3D/E machines which are not a cluster. Same for Irix or SUN, their SSI scalability is based on NUMA machines not clusters.
Agreed, the MPAA should get the hint that if we are watching the movie at a theater we did not downloaded it.
Still what gets me are the stupid commercials for actual products they show before the move. I mean I paid $8 to get in, and still have to watch commercials? And they still comlain they are not making enough money.
You got somethings wrong: The NT kernel that was implemented in the 80860 had nothing to do with OS3.0, in fact NT was nothing like NT until the 3.0 version (ever wondered what happened to the 1.0 and 2.0 versions:)? ).
When the research OS showed that the 860 was not viable as a general purpose architecture it was ported over MIPS. For all intents and purposes the MIPS was the first real NT implementation. In fact Microsoft even designed the platforms that would run the OS, which were sold under 3rd party aliases (yeah, that is right M$ actually did some hardware development). Those were the ARC compatible machines based on R4000 (Acer PICA, MIPS Magnun, Olivetti et al sold the M$ platform) and EISA bus. The NT kernel was never ported to the 960 which is an embedded processor. The x86 port came with the 3.0 version of NT, so in its initial release NT supported MIPS for the high end and X86 for the low end (under what the ARC consortium was supposed to move towards). After Intel with its pentium FUD managed to kill off the MIPS vendors, DEC actually ported NT to the Alpha. Motorola also did most of the porting of NT over the PPC line (but it had to be the IBM/Motorola CHRP compliant machines). There were supposed to be ports of NT to the Clipper and Sparc, and even PA-RISC. But those never saw the light of day, and I do not know if they got very far. SGI actually had some of their propietary MIPS machines like the Indigo booting NT kernels (spooky).
The army does not do product development, it does some basic research (basic as in fundamental, no as in easy) at their labs. This was a private company not delivering a product.
However this is just indirect subsidicing from the US government, most US defence contractors are simply leaches on the US taxpayer. Pure capitalism has never existed... so it could never work.
Nice PR post, yeah like Haliburton has been bleeding money ever.
And yes there was people who could do it cheaper, faster and better. It is called the US Army.
This is a sick and twisted world, when dumbasses are writing posts trying to paint war profiteering corporations (the lowest form of dirt in the corporate food chain) as being some kind of victim. Meanwhile our boys over there are eating dirt fed to them by the good ol' boys at Haliburton. Nice.... but hey no one could provide shit to our troops, right?
Venus has also Sulfuric Acid in its atmosphere, and the temperatures are the highest in the solar system, the pressure is there too to make things fun. Venus is one of the least likely places to find life.
Take a glass of sulfuric acid and observe how many of those "extremophiles" survive, or any other thing for that matter.
But all the landers took mere minutes before literally being cooked and stop functioning. So far Venus has managed to keep an almost perfect score of avoiding sucessful landings. And by sucessful I mean to not just sit on the surface, but actually do something for more than a few minutes at a time.
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.... and that relates to aerial robotic research... how?
He was just giving an example, you anal retentive geek....
Well, the DX4/100, was a 99Mhz internally and 33Mhz external part. So the bus is running at 1/2 of the Pentium's speed.
There is no way the P90 felt slower than a DX4/100... though. It had a faster bus and a wider issue capability, and much much better FPU.
That is all fine and all... except that the vax does process protection through adress translation not processor mode bits. Are you sure it was a VAX you were using...
Also if he had to reinstall VMS to restart it, it does not seem to me that sysadmin was clueful at all.
There are a ton of felines left:
Lynx/bobcat, Mountain Lion, Lion, Cheetah, Leopard, Puma, Serval, etc...
Hahahaha hahah hahahah hahaha, that was funny. Is this the first right wing troll i have seen in Slashdot today.
Thanks mate, you just made my day. You may not be aware of this, but there are plenty of conservative news outlets and even *gasp* political parties in Europe. At least those outlets and politicians have the balls to let other people know they are conservative. Unlike the conservative outlets in the US which try to pretend they are "fair and balanced"
Oh, and in Europe people actually understand the difference between reporting and editorial. Most US news outlets have forgotten the distinction.
But yeah, the US is has a far better track record when it comes to freedom of speech, unless it involves nudity, or strong language, or unpopular opinions, or bad comments about the president during a time of "war," or graphic images of destruction, or....
Well most of the place is a very big marsh, so unless you have a Segway that can thread through watter you are going to be stuck in the mud right off the bat.
You must have missed the new and improved constitution.
Does that mean that the Seat Seiscientos is the devil's car?
Huh.... no. The cache is made of SRAM, which is very very very very expensive in terms of power consumption and dissipation.
The power dissipated due to board level capacitance/inductance issues could be almost marginal in comparison to the power needed to feed the 2MB on chip cache. Those millions of transistors are quite a sink since they are on most of the time (I am sure they may use some power saving design and the cache may be implemented using dynamic ram even).
The cache is there to increase performance due to the overall lower clock speed. Which makes sense because the latest PIV parts have been rather unbalanced machines.
But... that is impossible, the US has never ever ever done anything bad. It is only foreigners, and who gives a shit about foreigners, there is only like what 5 billion of them? The parent of this thread must have been one of the most retarded, self centered, ignorant posters in Slashdot that I have read in a while, and that my friends is a pretty big deal! Typical American mentality, the end justifies the means... as long as the means screw someone else that is. I do not see Americans blacklisting their major ISPs...
Yah, it is always great when someone else is getting screwed so things get fixed. I am sure if it was your e-mail being blocked you may not be so understanding. But hey typical yankee mentality, afterall no spam ever came out of the good ol' USA, no siree bob!
You assume that the only goal of having sex is procreation, and you talk about puritanical attitudes! LOL....
You can procreate as early as 12 years old, just because you can it doesn't mean that you should do it. Using evolution as an argument is pointless since you chose to ignore the actual social context. Evolution also allowed us to pee standing up, I guess that means I can wip out my willie here and start peeing in my cubicle, eh?
I suggest you actually read on the machine, before you give me lessons on argumental fallacies. And BTW you clearly used the "straw man" approach oddly enough... never answered my point, made up your own point that I did not make and shoot me down. LOL! The machine was never intended for commercial use, in fact its funding was almost 100% government.
But hey, the fact that you actually know nothing about what stretch was or what it was about would never stop you from patronizing people, right?
Jeez....
Well, given that Stretch was one of the most successful research efforts in computer architecture ever, I have no clue why would you consider it to be a bad thing to put on one's resume.
About 1/2 of modern architectural concepts that we take for granted in current mircroarchitectures were first introduced in stretch. It was that important.
Actually the investigation on the crash of the Beagle II was pointing towards a difference in the expected density of the Martian atmosphere casuing the landing mechanism to fail (i.e. it came in too fast). A lot of the probes have to "brake" by skidding through the upper layers of the atmosphere, which can be rather risky but necessary sometimes for the corret orbital positioning.
Martian atmospheric conditions are rather important for landing probes.
And to the previous poster, well it turns out that Europa has an atmosphere. Galileo returned data on the ionosphere and atmospheric conditions on Europa, that is why further study is needed on such atmosphere as the original poster in this thread sugested.
Nope, Unicos/mk runs on the T3D/E machines which are not a cluster. Same for Irix or SUN, their SSI scalability is based on NUMA machines not clusters.
Agreed, the MPAA should get the hint that if we are watching the movie at a theater we did not downloaded it.
Still what gets me are the stupid commercials for actual products they show before the move. I mean I paid $8 to get in, and still have to watch commercials? And they still comlain they are not making enough money.
Screw'em!
LOL, yeah... best in business and were slashdotted in 10 seconds flat.
You got somethings wrong: The NT kernel that was implemented in the 80860 had nothing to do with OS3.0, in fact NT was nothing like NT until the 3.0 version (ever wondered what happened to the 1.0 and 2.0 versions :)? ).
When the research OS showed that the 860 was not viable as a general purpose architecture it was ported over MIPS. For all intents and purposes the MIPS was the first real NT implementation. In fact Microsoft even designed the platforms that would run the OS, which were sold under 3rd party aliases (yeah, that is right M$ actually did some hardware development). Those were the ARC compatible machines based on R4000 (Acer PICA, MIPS Magnun, Olivetti et al sold the M$ platform) and EISA bus. The NT kernel was never ported to the 960 which is an embedded processor. The x86 port came with the 3.0 version of NT, so in its initial release NT supported MIPS for the high end and X86 for the low end (under what the ARC consortium was supposed to move towards). After Intel with its pentium FUD managed to kill off the MIPS vendors, DEC actually ported NT to the Alpha. Motorola also did most of the porting of NT over the PPC line (but it had to be the IBM/Motorola CHRP compliant machines). There were supposed to be ports of NT to the Clipper and Sparc, and even PA-RISC. But those never saw the light of day, and I do not know if they got very far. SGI actually had some of their propietary MIPS machines like the Indigo booting NT kernels (spooky).
It is Russian, you insesitive clod! :)
Boeing is as American as apple pie, wait apple pie is dutch... errr never mind.
The army does not do product development, it does some basic research (basic as in fundamental, no as in easy) at their labs. This was a private company not delivering a product.
However this is just indirect subsidicing from the US government, most US defence contractors are simply leaches on the US taxpayer. Pure capitalism has never existed... so it could never work.
Nice PR post, yeah like Haliburton has been bleeding money ever. And yes there was people who could do it cheaper, faster and better. It is called the US Army. This is a sick and twisted world, when dumbasses are writing posts trying to paint war profiteering corporations (the lowest form of dirt in the corporate food chain) as being some kind of victim. Meanwhile our boys over there are eating dirt fed to them by the good ol' boys at Haliburton. Nice.... but hey no one could provide shit to our troops, right?
Venus has also Sulfuric Acid in its atmosphere, and the temperatures are the highest in the solar system, the pressure is there too to make things fun. Venus is one of the least likely places to find life. Take a glass of sulfuric acid and observe how many of those "extremophiles" survive, or any other thing for that matter.
But all the landers took mere minutes before literally being cooked and stop functioning. So far Venus has managed to keep an almost perfect score of avoiding sucessful landings. And by sucessful I mean to not just sit on the surface, but actually do something for more than a few minutes at a time.