Re:What, like x86 instruction set?
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While I agree with most of you said, I disagree on the instruction set comment. A successfull instruction set needs to support basic operations, avoid expensive instructions, and reduce dependencies between instructions. If you have a complex instruction set then you will have lots of trouble pipelining, branch predicting, out-of-order execution, parallel execution and so on.
Instruction sets are moving from user-friendliness towards hardware-friendliness. VLIW and EPIC cpus are non-trivial to program, whereus the VAX was designed to make programming easier. The VAX was abandoned ages ago...
Most of your ideas have already been tried. If you want to know more about CPU history I suggest: http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu.h tml
a very good read and should keep you busy for a couple of weeks:)
Seriously, who needs 7.1? The majority of DVDs out there are 5.1 and most movies simply won't benefit from the extra 2 channels. Let's make 9.1 because more channels sound better! The capability is nice but it's not that useful.
Before submitting a Java program make sure you have a try catch(Exception) block somewhere to catch all exceptions. No crash! With C and C++ programs you are pretty much screwed since you have to debug them and catch most of the memory leaks.
Seriously though, you can't always blame students for turning in programs with bugs. You can't expect anyone to make a quality program with impossible deadlines.
The language is open source for the most part, but the license isn't free. You can modify it and use it but you cannot redistribute the modified work without permission from Sun. If you download the JDK from Sun or blackdown.org there is a file called src.zip guess what it has inside...
I feel depressed. People are throwing away PCs which are better than my current one and what makes it worse is that it the most valuable thing in my appartment.
Damn you technology!
What does it have to do with the topic? I can understand that you are happy you are through with Windows but there are plenty of chances in/. to brag about Linux so take it to a more appropriate subject.
The fact that you have a family proves that there is another wonderful free something (hint: not linux)
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While I agree with most of you said, I disagree on the instruction set comment. A successfull instruction set needs to support basic operations, avoid expensive instructions, and reduce dependencies between instructions. If you have a complex instruction set then you will have lots of trouble pipelining, branch predicting, out-of-order execution, parallel execution and so on.
h tml
:)
Instruction sets are moving from user-friendliness towards hardware-friendliness. VLIW and EPIC cpus are non-trivial to program, whereus the VAX was designed to make programming easier. The VAX was abandoned ages ago...
Most of your ideas have already been tried. If you want to know more about CPU history I suggest:
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu.
a very good read and should keep you busy for a couple of weeks
Seriously, who needs 7.1? The majority of DVDs out there are 5.1 and most movies simply won't benefit from the extra 2 channels. Let's make 9.1 because more channels sound better! The capability is nice but it's not that useful.
Before submitting a Java program make sure you have a try catch(Exception) block somewhere to catch all exceptions. No crash! With C and C++ programs you are pretty much screwed since you have to debug them and catch most of the memory leaks. Seriously though, you can't always blame students for turning in programs with bugs. You can't expect anyone to make a quality program with impossible deadlines.
good one!
The language is open source for the most part, but the license isn't free. You can modify it and use it but you cannot redistribute the modified work without permission from Sun. If you download the JDK from Sun or blackdown.org there is a file called src.zip guess what it has inside...
I feel depressed. People are throwing away PCs which are better than my current one and what makes it worse is that it the most valuable thing in my appartment. Damn you technology!
What does it have to do with the topic? I can understand that you are happy you are through with Windows but there are plenty of chances in /. to brag about Linux so take it to a more appropriate subject.
The fact that you have a family proves that there is another wonderful free something (hint: not linux)
Why would anyone need SETI@home to distract people when you have unecessary wars and Hollywood?
I'd rather wait a couple of months than ending up with (partially) broken X. The new features are cool but nothing I can't leave without.
386 IS 32-bit.