I'm a little skeptical of the "1.5x performance over the Atom clock-for-clock" claim. The Atom has a much broader vector instruction set, and ARM FPU's aren't exactly known for their record-setting performance. Take this with a grain of salt, but Intel claims some fairly impressive spec_cpu2000 performance numbers:
Where have I heard of this before? A server OS that has the option to run on the PDP-10, is designed for interactive rather than batch operation, and supports applications from a variety of vendors..... Oh yeah... TENEX/TWENEX.
Bull used to make some Itanium-based supercomputers too, and there are a few on top500 - they now only do Itanium for their proprietary mainframe OS (GCOS) though. IBM's pushing a manycore PPC derivative (BlueGene) that is interesting in some ways and has high theoretical numbers, and have sold a fair number of them.
So yeah, x64 is pretty dominant in supercomputing. RISC is alive there, but not exactly thriving - it's VERY difficult to compete with Intel on cost.
High-end RISC/mainframe platforms make up ~35-40% of the server market (source: both IDC and Gartner's numbers for Q1 and Q2) by revenue. High-end UNIX is staying flat and mainframe use is hugely increasing. You have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
OS/2 and NT were barely related - that's a myth. NT started from scratch, was cleanly 32-bit, and used completely different API's. They were related only in the sense that they were both successors to DOS.
Back in the day, they (and their predecessor companies) made good products. Caldera OpenLinux was one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions of the day, and the two flavors of SCO UNIX had a large customer base. There are still a fair number SCO UNIX customers left, but I would assume they're seriously evaluating their migration options.
That side of the business is now owned by an entity called Unxis, and I would guess the remainder of SCO itself is mainly to continue this lawsuit.
The / directory separator isn't inherently "standard." It's standard among many Unix-family systems, which - surprise, surprise - are not the only operating systems in the world.
Stratus VOS uses >, as a Multics-family system.
Bull GCOS 8 uses \
HP NonStop uses .
VMS uses .
Mac OS used :
As far as the registry, and how Windows is the only OS horrible enough to use one, look up AIX and ODM sometime.
Unisys does something even better with their mainframe line. They monitor your CPU usage and send you a monthly invoice for the capacity used, in exchange for a much lower cost of acquisition. If you like, you can also pay full price for a non-metered mainframe unit.
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In 2003, 2GHz+ Pentium 4's existed, as did the (much more efficient per-cycle than ARM) Pentium III.
Microsoft has demonstrated non-Metro Office running on ARM.
I'm a little skeptical of the "1.5x performance over the Atom clock-for-clock" claim. The Atom has a much broader vector instruction set, and ARM FPU's aren't exactly known for their record-setting performance. Take this with a grain of salt, but Intel claims some fairly impressive spec_cpu2000 performance numbers:
http://top500.org/files/Moorestown-Performance.PNG
IBM Power7 has both superior raw performance and superior performance per watt. The problem there is cost.
Where have I heard of this before? A server OS that has the option to run on the PDP-10, is designed for interactive rather than batch operation, and supports applications from a variety of vendors..... Oh yeah... TENEX/TWENEX.
Do some research. The status quo since 1953 has been far from peace.
Bull used to make some Itanium-based supercomputers too, and there are a few on top500 - they now only do Itanium for their proprietary mainframe OS (GCOS) though. IBM's pushing a manycore PPC derivative (BlueGene) that is interesting in some ways and has high theoretical numbers, and have sold a fair number of them.
So yeah, x64 is pretty dominant in supercomputing. RISC is alive there, but not exactly thriving - it's VERY difficult to compete with Intel on cost.
Supercomputers are a different niche, retard. Look at the actual numbers. As I said - high-end RISC/mainframe is about a third of the server market.
High-end RISC/mainframe platforms make up ~35-40% of the server market (source: both IDC and Gartner's numbers for Q1 and Q2) by revenue. High-end UNIX is staying flat and mainframe use is hugely increasing. You have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
Guess what: web servers aren't everything.
"Most Chinese?" When was the last genuine competitive election held in Mainland China?
Yet again, the US bogeyman is used as an excuse for censorship by brutal and repressive governments.
No, the US isn't perfect.
That doesn't excuse mass censorship. Ever.
Being an SQL server that sometimes didn't even corrupt data isn't enough. How's MySQL scalability compared to Oracle, DB2, or Sybase?
OS/2 and NT were barely related - that's a myth. NT started from scratch, was cleanly 32-bit, and used completely different API's. They were related only in the sense that they were both successors to DOS.
Czech uses the Latin alphabet, not Cyrillic.
Yet another person who has no idea how standards actually work, but is apparently literate enough to read XKCD.
Where does Lisp go in your list? How about Haskell?
Back in the day, they (and their predecessor companies) made good products. Caldera OpenLinux was one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions of the day, and the two flavors of SCO UNIX had a large customer base. There are still a fair number SCO UNIX customers left, but I would assume they're seriously evaluating their migration options.
That side of the business is now owned by an entity called Unxis, and I would guess the remainder of SCO itself is mainly to continue this lawsuit.
The / directory separator isn't inherently "standard." It's standard among many Unix-family systems, which - surprise, surprise - are not the only operating systems in the world.
Stratus VOS uses >, as a Multics-family system.
Bull GCOS 8 uses \
HP NonStop uses .
VMS uses .
Mac OS used :
As far as the registry, and how Windows is the only OS horrible enough to use one, look up AIX and ODM sometime.
Less than that. The US has $15tn of total debt, roughly, of which slightly under $1tn is Chinese. Not a particularly impressive figure.
What a disgusting comment.
FF8 nightlies already exist.
In the final Next Generation episode, Q prevented life from forming on Earth. It was pretty effective.
That's just the GPL'd kernel source - in other words, barely-modified Linux kernel. Real useful.
Where can I download the source to Android 3, 3.1, or 3.2?
Unisys does something even better with their mainframe line. They monitor your CPU usage and send you a monthly invoice for the capacity used, in exchange for a much lower cost of acquisition. If you like, you can also pay full price for a non-metered mainframe unit.