I agree with your post, but in seriousness, the 80386 architecture will also make sense if you previously used an 8080, 8085 or Z80. Am I showing my age?
You underestimate the speed gains to be had (up to a factor of 10 in certain cases) by replacing computationally intensive floating point code with SSE or 3DNow! instructions. Assembly Language will always be relevant in these cases. No compiler exists which can exploit SIMD architectures to the full on commodity hardware. http://libsimd.sourceforge.net
Java on the client is what gives everyone running OSs different to the "market leader"/monopolist a snowball's chance in hell of participating in the Internet fairly in such things as business transactions, banking, run small applications etc. It lets everyone else run the same code. The idea's been around for decades, but Java is the first thing to do it and do it well.
Well, I have an old 486/25sx in the cupboard (Compaq Presario) with 20MB RAM and 100MB hard drive. I was going to turn it into an X Terminal but alas my g.f. has moved in and there is no room to have it up just now. I have booted slack on it OK but not set up a proper system. I'll do that over NFS from my main machine, when we get a bigger house...
Quite right, after all it's applications that sell the platform. (Remember Lotus 1-2-3?) So what code have you written and where can we go to contribute?
Diesl is cool, but it's not without it's problems. Diesel engines tend to emit a lot of acrid balck smoke. You can filter it out of the exhaust with a corresponding reduction in power output from the increased back-pressure. However, I've also read that if you put spark plugs in a Diesel engine to fire after the natural detonation, you get more complete combustion and less smoke. Is this true?
Delphi, the language, is actually very nice for people wanting to get a job done. The problem with Dephi is that it's non-portable. It only runs on and generates code for 32-bit x86 machines. You can't run it on anything else. This was not a problem if you only wanted to write Windows code. Now you can write Windows and Linux x86 code. You can't make SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM or any other code with it for that matter. You're still tied to x86, but now you have the choice of Linux or Windows.
There's an obvious and easy workaround. Produce analogue tuners that you can plug into a multi-frequency analogue monitor, and voila. Sell them separately.
Do they really contain ramjets as well as turbojets? I always thought they were just plain turbojets with afterburners, and that the cones on the front were adjustable to slow down the air to subsonic speeds for the turbojet. Do you have any links explaining how the engines work> All of the stuff I've read so far says that they're just turbojets, no ramjet stage.
So, he was sued in error, and he still had to pay for it? I don't understand the logic of that. Surely he could just have pointed this out and had nothing more to do with it?
If someone sues me for something I didn't do, and I have to defend myself, I'd expect them to foot the bill at the end of the day.
"Strong, lightweight,
conducts heat really well, and transparent..."
So what about the on-board toilet? Or wouldn't there need to be one since flights will be so short?
Northrop Grumman's competitor was the YF23, which was rumoured to be superior in some areas to the YF22. I've been looking on Google for info and all I can find is nonsense about black projects and flying saucers. Does anyone have any links to real information?
All of these numbers are very interesting, but what would be really useful is a timeline of graphics hardware performance comparing modern cards with those released in the last five years or so, so that those of us with archaic cards have something to go on when we upgrade. It is good to know who's producing the most capable card at the moment, but I'd like to know how much faster it is relative to what I have now.
Yes, Slackware is brilliant. I've been using it since 1995 and have never needed to use another distribution, ever. Slackware is stable, small (but not too small) and has all of the relevant stuff. It just works, and is very easy to set up.
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:-) Darn lameness filter!
Yes, but that's 16-bit 8086 code, not 386 code :-)
I agree with your post, but in seriousness, the 80386 architecture will also make sense if you previously used an 8080, 8085 or Z80. Am I showing my age?
You underestimate the speed gains to be had (up to a factor of 10 in certain cases) by replacing computationally intensive floating point code with SSE or 3DNow! instructions. Assembly Language will always be relevant in these cases. No compiler exists which can exploit SIMD architectures to the full on commodity hardware. http://libsimd.sourceforge.net
Nice try, but I don't think the author of that article is aware of encapsulation and what can be achieved with operator overloading.
Java on the client is what gives everyone running OSs different to the "market leader"/monopolist a snowball's chance in hell of participating in the Internet fairly in such things as business transactions, banking, run small applications etc. It lets everyone else run the same code. The idea's been around for decades, but Java is the first thing to do it and do it well.
Well, I have an old 486/25sx in the cupboard (Compaq Presario) with 20MB RAM and 100MB hard drive. I was going to turn it into an X Terminal but alas my g.f. has moved in and there is no room to have it up just now. I have booted slack on it OK but not set up a proper system. I'll do that over NFS from my main machine, when we get a bigger house...
I beg your pardon? Windows 98 on a 486/25? Try Slackware with a 2.2 kernel. Slack 7 will do just fine.
Quite right, after all it's applications that sell the platform. (Remember Lotus 1-2-3?) So what code have you written and where can we go to contribute?
Diesl is cool, but it's not without it's problems. Diesel engines tend to emit a lot of acrid balck smoke. You can filter it out of the exhaust with a corresponding reduction in power output from the increased back-pressure. However, I've also read that if you put spark plugs in a Diesel engine to fire after the natural detonation, you get more complete combustion and less smoke. Is this true?
Delphi, the language, is actually very nice for people wanting to get a job done. The problem with Dephi is that it's non-portable. It only runs on and generates code for 32-bit x86 machines. You can't run it on anything else. This was not a problem if you only wanted to write Windows code. Now you can write Windows and Linux x86 code. You can't make SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM or any other code with it for that matter. You're still tied to x86, but now you have the choice of Linux or Windows.
There's an obvious and easy workaround. Produce analogue tuners that you can plug into a multi-frequency analogue monitor, and voila. Sell them separately.
Do they really contain ramjets as well as turbojets? I always thought they were just plain turbojets with afterburners, and that the cones on the front were adjustable to slow down the air to subsonic speeds for the turbojet. Do you have any links explaining how the engines work> All of the stuff I've read so far says that they're just turbojets, no ramjet stage.
...and you've forgotten, or maybe are too young to remember, when it was IBM that had the virtual monopoly...
Maybe Microsoft is about to Microchannel Architectur e itself? "The era of open computing has ended"
Maybe intel is doing the same with itanium...
There comes a time when the market can no longer sustain the over-ambitious revenue plans of monopolies.
So, he was sued in error, and he still had to pay for it? I don't understand the logic of that. Surely he could just have pointed this out and had nothing more to do with it? If someone sues me for something I didn't do, and I have to defend myself, I'd expect them to foot the bill at the end of the day.
"Strong, lightweight, conducts heat really well, and transparent..." So what about the on-board toilet? Or wouldn't there need to be one since flights will be so short?
We've come a long way since the late 1950's. :-)
What if you've paid to download it, or already paid for it on a physical medium and want the convenience of having it in electronic format too?
Why would the Hammer need AltiVec when it already has 3DNow!, SSE and SSE2?
Sun has been producing a VLIW processor as well,called MAJC (pronounced "magic"), since 1999. Look here
Thanks.
Northrop Grumman's competitor was the YF23, which was rumoured to be superior in some areas to the YF22. I've been looking on Google for info and all I can find is nonsense about black projects and flying saucers. Does anyone have any links to real information?
As if no-one before 1986 ever thought of lossy compression of signals. :-)
It'll not stand up in court.
All of these numbers are very interesting, but what would be really useful is a timeline of graphics hardware performance comparing modern cards with those released in the last five years or so, so that those of us with archaic cards have something to go on when we upgrade. It is good to know who's producing the most capable card at the moment, but I'd like to know how much faster it is relative to what I have now.
Yes, Slackware is brilliant. I've been using it since 1995 and have never needed to use another distribution, ever. Slackware is stable, small (but not too small) and has all of the relevant stuff. It just works, and is very easy to set up.