Take a look at: http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexsparc25.html The latest versions of gcc, bash, libtool etc are available for Solaris 2.5 which was released in 1995, which means they will run on any newer version of solaris too. Solaris 7 will run on even the oldest sparc hardware, 8 and upwards loses support for some of the oldest sparc hardware.. Solaris 2.5 and upwards are still supported by SUN with security patches and opensource software will compile just fine, and precompiled versions are available from sunfreeware.com. As for gcc 2.8.2 coming with solaris, that's not true, whoever setup the box must have explicitely installed it.. Solaris doesn't come with a compiler by default and sun make their own compiler anyway. As for why people dont upgrade, if 2.5 works on your hardware and you dont need any of the new features present in 10, then you'l gain nothing from upgrading, you are more likely to lose out in terms of diskspace usage and your old box is unlikely to have very large disks. And as for upgrading the hardware, well if your current machine handles the load it's intended to handle with some room for a load increase, why waste the money?
Well, iChat is competing with the mac client, whereas there is no direct competition on windows. People won't install their client on their mac unless it's considerably better than the one they already have with the os.
I would suggest that my mother use another bank if her existing one can't follow published standards.. Aside from that, her bank DOES work with firefox, and she uses IRIX as an os, because she liked the asthetics of the hardware it ran on much better than a beige box.
Not in the UK you can't, i've tried to get my hands on one out of curiosity, they're very rare and i imagine they're only cheap because noone wants them.
If the cell is mass produced it may become cheaper to produce than a custom dsp, also this will allow dvd players to be upgraded more easily in the future to handle new formats, tho companies nowadays dont want you to upgrade your existing hardware, they would prefer you to throw it away and replace it.
Well, the processor was a much cleaner design, no segmented memory etc, and most of the time you were programming the cpu.. You also could guarantee the hardware and os (or you could totally bypass the os), whereas on an x86 machine you could have any number of incompatible sound/graphics cards and incompatible methods of accessing memory above 640kb.
And unlike the other RISC systems, Itanium hasn't been around long enough for older systems to be available cheaply on ebay... Anyone can afford an old sparc nowadays to learn the architecture or write code, and their code will run just fine on a modern system.
Opensource would solve the same problem too, Once a kernel such as Linux, a libc and a compiler is ported, most of the userspace apps are quite easy to compile and run, especially since 64bit opensource os's have been around for years, so a lot of code is 64bit clean nowadays. Just look at how quickly linux supported itanium and amd64.
I doubt it would be very easy to port OpenVMS to a platform which wasn't designed to accomodate it, such as x86 or amd64.. I would be interested to see how the itanic performs when emulating alpha code too, aparrently you can run alpha binaries on openvms/itanic now, but it would most likely be horrendously slow, especially considering the fastest alphas can hold their own against itanic anyway.
Infact, newer versions of some dell bioses actually break X, atleast the latest bios for the inspiron 2600 laptops prevents X from starting up. Aside from that, why do they bother with floppy images? most of their machines dont come with floppy drives anymore anyway.. and a program you run from the os won't work too well if the old bios is causing your os to not boot.
True, it is annoying on the very rare occasion that i wish to select a block of text and then overwrite it with something from the clipboard... Other than that, it's much faster for 99% of what i use it for.. You can't suit everyone all of the time.
But accessing those broken sites in ie will only reinforce their belief that there's no other browsers out there, and encourage them to make more such sites.
Clocks in at 36mb here (on linux) plus 18mb of shared libs, and this is with 6 tabs open. On the other hand, i wonder how many shared libs IE hooks into, considering a good portion of the rendering engine is already preloaded by the os...
How about people with poor eyesight who want to use especially large fonts because they cant read small ones? Don't you want the maximum possible number of people to read your content, rather than rejecting certain groups.. Modern browsers let you override a site's stylesheet for a reason you know, some people just want to read the content and dont want to be bothered with all the fancy stuff the author put in because he already has the content.. The number of sites i go to where the text is rendered unreadable by a background pattern/image, but atleast i can highlight it or cut+paste it into another app, can't do that with flash.
The trouble is, if you follow MS past form, inferior or not their product will become dominant, which means the spyware authors only have a single target to go up against.. Makes it much easier for them
It's actually only easy because your used to it, personally i find all versions of windows very inflexible in their interface.. Once you get used to a window manager of choice on unix, and begin making use of features such as letting you click in a background window without it coming to the front, and the select, middleclick paste of X11.. Once you get used to this, and the multiple workspaces, and many other features of X11... you find windows totally unuseable and restrictive.
But there isn't fully viable competition, due to things like propriatory fileformats and other anti-competition measures. Other industries aren't as screwed over as this. There's nothing to stop a ford customer scrapping his ford and buying a bmw.
Well, does it load the whole image before it begins processing it? tiff images can often be very large files, it might make sense to start processing it the moment it gets some data and not waiting for the transfer to finish. Samba isn't the quickest or most efficient of file transfer protocols either..
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If your using DHCP, then your hostname will be collected from that... otherwise just create /etc/nodename with your desired hostname.
Take a look at: http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexsparc25.html
The latest versions of gcc, bash, libtool etc are available for Solaris 2.5 which was released in 1995, which means they will run on any newer version of solaris too.
Solaris 7 will run on even the oldest sparc hardware, 8 and upwards loses support for some of the oldest sparc hardware.. Solaris 2.5 and upwards are still supported by SUN with security patches and opensource software will compile just fine, and precompiled versions are available from sunfreeware.com.
As for gcc 2.8.2 coming with solaris, that's not true, whoever setup the box must have explicitely installed it.. Solaris doesn't come with a compiler by default and sun make their own compiler anyway.
As for why people dont upgrade, if 2.5 works on your hardware and you dont need any of the new features present in 10, then you'l gain nothing from upgrading, you are more likely to lose out in terms of diskspace usage and your old box is unlikely to have very large disks. And as for upgrading the hardware, well if your current machine handles the load it's intended to handle with some room for a load increase, why waste the money?
Solaris also supports AMD64, which is also NUMA based, but can operate in a plain smp mode too for backwards compatibility purposes.
Well, iChat is competing with the mac client, whereas there is no direct competition on windows. People won't install their client on their mac unless it's considerably better than the one they already have with the os.
Well, but windows still lets an admin user (ie your boss) login even when it's locked...
I would suggest that my mother use another bank if her existing one can't follow published standards..
Aside from that, her bank DOES work with firefox, and she uses IRIX as an os, because she liked the asthetics of the hardware it ran on much better than a beige box.
Not in the UK you can't, i've tried to get my hands on one out of curiosity, they're very rare and i imagine they're only cheap because noone wants them.
Alpha is popular too, and still outselling itanium, even tho HP is jacking up the prices on Alpha hardware to try and discourage sales..
If the cell is mass produced it may become cheaper to produce than a custom dsp, also this will allow dvd players to be upgraded more easily in the future to handle new formats, tho companies nowadays dont want you to upgrade your existing hardware, they would prefer you to throw it away and replace it.
That's another issue, flash ignores the DPI of your display system... So it becomes unreadable on a screen with a very fine resolution.
Well, the processor was a much cleaner design, no segmented memory etc, and most of the time you were programming the cpu.. You also could guarantee the hardware and os (or you could totally bypass the os), whereas on an x86 machine you could have any number of incompatible sound/graphics cards and incompatible methods of accessing memory above 640kb.
And unlike the other RISC systems, Itanium hasn't been around long enough for older systems to be available cheaply on ebay... Anyone can afford an old sparc nowadays to learn the architecture or write code, and their code will run just fine on a modern system.
Opensource would solve the same problem too, Once a kernel such as Linux, a libc and a compiler is ported, most of the userspace apps are quite easy to compile and run, especially since 64bit opensource os's have been around for years, so a lot of code is 64bit clean nowadays. Just look at how quickly linux supported itanium and amd64.
I doubt it would be very easy to port OpenVMS to a platform which wasn't designed to accomodate it, such as x86 or amd64.. I would be interested to see how the itanic performs when emulating alpha code too, aparrently you can run alpha binaries on openvms/itanic now, but it would most likely be horrendously slow, especially considering the fastest alphas can hold their own against itanic anyway.
Infact, newer versions of some dell bioses actually break X, atleast the latest bios for the inspiron 2600 laptops prevents X from starting up.
Aside from that, why do they bother with floppy images? most of their machines dont come with floppy drives anymore anyway.. and a program you run from the os won't work too well if the old bios is causing your os to not boot.
True, it is annoying on the very rare occasion that i wish to select a block of text and then overwrite it with something from the clipboard... Other than that, it's much faster for 99% of what i use it for.. You can't suit everyone all of the time.
But accessing those broken sites in ie will only reinforce their belief that there's no other browsers out there, and encourage them to make more such sites.
Clocks in at 36mb here (on linux) plus 18mb of shared libs, and this is with 6 tabs open.
On the other hand, i wonder how many shared libs IE hooks into, considering a good portion of the rendering engine is already preloaded by the os...
How about people with poor eyesight who want to use especially large fonts because they cant read small ones? Don't you want the maximum possible number of people to read your content, rather than rejecting certain groups..
Modern browsers let you override a site's stylesheet for a reason you know, some people just want to read the content and dont want to be bothered with all the fancy stuff the author put in because he already has the content..
The number of sites i go to where the text is rendered unreadable by a background pattern/image, but atleast i can highlight it or cut+paste it into another app, can't do that with flash.
The trouble is, if you follow MS past form, inferior or not their product will become dominant, which means the spyware authors only have a single target to go up against.. Makes it much easier for them
It's actually only easy because your used to it, personally i find all versions of windows very inflexible in their interface..
Once you get used to a window manager of choice on unix, and begin making use of features such as letting you click in a background window without it coming to the front, and the select, middleclick paste of X11.. Once you get used to this, and the multiple workspaces, and many other features of X11... you find windows totally unuseable and restrictive.
But there isn't fully viable competition, due to things like propriatory fileformats and other anti-competition measures.
Other industries aren't as screwed over as this.
There's nothing to stop a ford customer scrapping his ford and buying a bmw.
Well if the parity drive goes you replace it, raid5 is good so long as you dont suffer 2 drive failures at once, that's the point of raid5.
Well, does it load the whole image before it begins processing it? tiff images can often be very large files, it might make sense to start processing it the moment it gets some data and not waiting for the transfer to finish. Samba isn't the quickest or most efficient of file transfer protocols either..
But currently these games run on windows, which does context switches the i386 way and doesn't utilise the AMD64 architecture properly atall.