Before you all go posting requests to IBM to open source OS/2, just remember whose code is in there: Microsoft. Remember, it was a joint venture between the two companies. Do you think that Microsoft would allow it to be open sourced? Anyway, it's technologically behind all the free Unixes, so what possibly could one learn from it, other than what was actually possible 10 years (or more) ago on realtively low-specced machines.
I think the point is to stop the MS monopoly by there being alternative products to those of MS, and allowing other software vendors to participate in the market. If M$ Office were suddenly to appear on Linux and every other version of UNIX, it's just possible that MS would kill any last vestage of competition. Luckily, OpenOffice etc. have got some momentum behind them already so that probably won't happen. Can you imagine a world in which you could choose whatever word processor you like as long as it's Word?
HP will live to regret this. They're retiring a mature, stable, established and best-of-breed architecture (Alpha) for an unproven, late, incompatible, expensive, clumsy one (itanium). Their competitors must be laughing all the way to the bank. Just what is HP doing? Why do large corporations make such crazy decisions?
Mozilla's performance is barely acceptable on my humble 500MHz K6-2. It stinks on UltraSPARC. I suspect it stinks on anything that isn't x86, partly because of GCC's inefficiency on non-x86 architectures. Therefore I hate to think what it would be like on a 206MHz StrongARM. I think Mozilla needs a lot of optimization before anyone can contemplate running it on a handheld. On a related note, why is Netscape 7 so much faster than Mozilla on the same machine? I know an ipaq user who runs dillo for his web browser. It seems far better suited to hand-held use.
There were lots of Eastern Bloc Z80 clones. If you google, you can find loads of Sinclair Spectrum clones from Russia, East Germany etc. IIRC they were actually ahead of the West in supercomputer design though, because the Soviet government poured large amounts of cash into it.
There is "one standard desktop" in the UNIX world, and it's called CDE, and comes with Solaris. It is an agreed upon industry standard. However, the non-standard KDE and Gnome are much more modern and many people prefer to use them.
Go ahead with the spam database and bait the copyright holders. Every time they send a letter requsting that their "works" be removed from the database, add their names and addresses to a list of known spammers, also available publically on the site. Names and addresses are not copyright. Let's see them get out of that one.
...but if the programs run in kernel space they can get past this abstraction. Anyway, can't you make the BIOS appear as a device under/dev like everything else?
Just out of curiosity, suppose you wanted to write your own flight simulator (nothing fancy) how would you go about making a mathematical model of the plane? What sort of things to you need to take into account, what do you model and how do you do it? Are there any good books on the subject or web resources etc.?
I agree with you wholeheartedly. There are some organisations over here such as eurorights
and there is someone claiming to be the eff-europe but there doesn't seem to be the same momentum as in the USA. Hopefully things will pick up here before the laws get passed, rather than after.
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Maybe he's one of the last survivors of the ancient race that built octal computers.
MMX is integer SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data). These Cyrix/VIA processors have 3DNow! which is Floating Point SIMD in addition to MMX so they are more than powerful enough for playing digital video. I'd say that for a low-cost machine, they are pretty darn good value for money. BTW the 3DNow! outperforms the legacy Floating Point by a significant margin. In some cases by 300%. And no, I didn't pull that number out of my butt: libSIMD
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Before you all go posting requests to IBM to open source OS/2, just remember whose code is in there: Microsoft. Remember, it was a joint venture between the two companies. Do you think that Microsoft would allow it to be open sourced? Anyway, it's technologically behind all the free Unixes, so what possibly could one learn from it, other than what was actually possible 10 years (or more) ago on realtively low-specced machines.
Just goes to show that the Michelin Man was way ahead of his time.
I think the point is to stop the MS monopoly by there being alternative products to those of MS, and allowing other software vendors to participate in the market. If M$ Office were suddenly to appear on Linux and every other version of UNIX, it's just possible that MS would kill any last vestage of competition. Luckily, OpenOffice etc. have got some momentum behind them already so that probably won't happen. Can you imagine a world in which you could choose whatever word processor you like as long as it's Word?
That's like saying OpenOffice doesn't run on Linux, it really runs on X, since OpenOffice runs on X which sits on top of Linux.
Xenix is a 16-bit unix. It was written for the 286. :-) They already did release Office for BSD i.e. Mac OS X.
But still be dependent on them for their applications?
You're right. With a bit of luck they'll wither away to become just another clone maker :-)
You are away with the faries.
HP will live to regret this. They're retiring a mature, stable, established and best-of-breed architecture (Alpha) for an unproven, late, incompatible, expensive, clumsy one (itanium). Their competitors must be laughing all the way to the bank. Just what is HP doing? Why do large corporations make such crazy decisions?
LOL :-)
Mozilla's performance is barely acceptable on my humble 500MHz K6-2. It stinks on UltraSPARC. I suspect it stinks on anything that isn't x86, partly because of GCC's inefficiency on non-x86 architectures. Therefore I hate to think what it would be like on a 206MHz StrongARM. I think Mozilla needs a lot of optimization before anyone can contemplate running it on a handheld. On a related note, why is Netscape 7 so much faster than Mozilla on the same machine? I know an ipaq user who runs dillo for his web browser. It seems far better suited to hand-held use.
There were lots of Eastern Bloc Z80 clones. If you google, you can find loads of Sinclair Spectrum clones from Russia, East Germany etc. IIRC they were actually ahead of the West in supercomputer design though, because the Soviet government poured large amounts of cash into it.
No, but it was so cold in the winter, that even the ice was frozen.
Solaris 8 and 9 both come with GNOME in the media kit already. However it is not "officially supported" by Sun.
There is "one standard desktop" in the UNIX world, and it's called CDE, and comes with Solaris. It is an agreed upon industry standard. However, the non-standard KDE and Gnome are much more modern and many people prefer to use them.
You can extend that idea a bit further and do away with the cusion and make it fly by using a WIG (Wing In Ground-effect).
The problem with Rovers was rust and lack of reliability. Such are British cars :-(
Go ahead with the spam database and bait the copyright holders. Every time they send a letter requsting that their "works" be removed from the database, add their names and addresses to a list of known spammers, also available publically on the site. Names and addresses are not copyright. Let's see them get out of that one.
...but if the programs run in kernel space they can get past this abstraction. Anyway, can't you make the BIOS appear as a device under /dev like everything else?
It has to be Mozuki. Mozilla, Mozilla....and Mozuki.
Just out of curiosity, suppose you wanted to write your own flight simulator (nothing fancy) how would you go about making a mathematical model of the plane? What sort of things to you need to take into account, what do you model and how do you do it? Are there any good books on the subject or web resources etc.?
I agree with you wholeheartedly. There are some organisations over here such as eurorights and there is someone claiming to be the eff-europe but there doesn't seem to be the same momentum as in the USA. Hopefully things will pick up here before the laws get passed, rather than after.
Maybe he's one of the last survivors of the ancient race that built octal computers.
Imagine a Wankel engine in one of these! That would provide an awesome power to wieght ratio.
MMX is integer SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data). These Cyrix/VIA processors have 3DNow! which is Floating Point SIMD in addition to MMX so they are more than powerful enough for playing digital video. I'd say that for a low-cost machine, they are pretty darn good value for money. BTW the 3DNow! outperforms the legacy Floating Point by a significant margin. In some cases by 300%. And no, I didn't pull that number out of my butt: libSIMD