Only "AmigaDOS" (fileIO/CLI) was based on Tripos and BCPL; Commodore outsourced that to a UK company to get AmigaOS V1 out the door.
It was wretched. Slow, bloated and lacking functionality
Programming example: convert strings from null-terminated to first-byte-contains-length, then right-shift the address 2 bits right so that the BCPL runtime can left-shift it back again to use it...
Most of the functionality and all the really nifty stuff in that area, e.g. file-notifications, came after it was completely
re-implemented in C for AmigaOS V2. (~30 system-calls in V1.3, ~150 in V2.0) Much of the design for this rewrite was lifted from the free-beer (I forget if it was open source) "AmigaDOS Replacement Project"
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now, you can't see details for individual peers, but frankly who cares?
How about when a peer is flooding your bandwidth with corrupt data and you need to block them?
BitTorrent is not a one-to-one connection, so it is _complicated_; the clients have dozens
of options and tweaks because you _need_
them. If you needed that kind of fine control over HTTP, then you would see options for that.
But you don't, and you don't.
Maybe there will come a time when I will use the built-in BitTorrent. But as it stands,
it is not
really adequate.
For those of us who ran Amigas in the late 1980s and early 1990s (and there were more than 0.1% of us), there were Fish Disks which usually contained source for the included programs. Early disks were mostly full of ports from comp.unix.sources, but there was lots of original material also.
Yes, though that is entirely irrelevant. Indeed, we are free to not use their OS, but are we free to not interoperate with it? A project I worked on some years back had a major setback as some clients used an MS proxy server, and due to the NTAuth protocol being undocumented at that time, we were unable to interoperate with it legally.
(As to law and violence, this is still the prerogative of government, but MS do not face the threat of violence, but financial punishment, just as they do each time they are sued in the USA).
2001 is not a book->movie adaptation. The "novel" is a novelization. Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which inspired the film, is only the second act of the movie (the bit on the moon) - the rest is implied.
I grant you that there was a lot of software that was only available on single platforms back in the day.
However the parent is discussing operating systems and your examples are hardware platforms.
And interestingly enough, two of those platforms could run UNIX...
Indeed! "I'm not Thursday, I'm the SUNDAY ME!"
As well as Lem's Star Diaries, may I recommend his "The Futurological Congress" and "The Cyberiad". These, too, have much of the flavour of HHGTTG (though TFC gets pretty dark at times, sort of an absurd 1984).
Compuserve did not "hold the patent", Sperry (by then Unisys) did. Compuserve merely licensed the patent.
See, for example, amongst many other web resources, http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/giflzw.php and http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html
Just being pedantic, but the idea of Compuserve ever coming up with something patentable was mind-boggling...
If you consider how H.P.Lovecraft and his fellow writers collaborated, it's no surprise that there's an open source connection. They were constantly (snail)mailing each other their latest works, incorporating and elaborating each others' ideas in one of the first really successful shared fantasy worlds.
A pity Arkham House went all Disney on licensing, but I guess they had to stay in business somehow.
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"I'm not holding my pickle!"
"Then who's holding your pickle?"
-- "Titties and Beer", Frank Zappa
Sounds pretty Freudian to me.
Of course, we've made giant leaps in interface design since then.
Frank's a nice name. Robin Day's got a hedgehog named Frank.
It was wretched. Slow, bloated and lacking functionality
Programming example: convert strings from null-terminated to first-byte-contains-length, then right-shift the address 2 bits right so that the BCPL runtime can left-shift it back again to use it ...
Most of the functionality and all the really nifty stuff in that area, e.g. file-notifications, came after it was completely re-implemented in C for AmigaOS V2. (~30 system-calls in V1.3, ~150 in V2.0)
Much of the design for this rewrite was lifted from the free-beer (I forget if it was open source) "AmigaDOS Replacement Project"
Wow ... just wow ... I take my hat off to you sir - that is the finest straw-man argument I have seen in years!
A confused reader on Slashdot thread is clearly not a granma
It works ten other ways too?
How about when a peer is flooding your bandwidth with corrupt data and you need to block them?
BitTorrent is not a one-to-one connection, so it is _complicated_; the clients have dozens of options and tweaks because you _need_ them. If you needed that kind of fine control over HTTP, then you would see options for that. But you don't, and you don't.
Maybe there will come a time when I will use the built-in BitTorrent. But as it stands, it is not really adequate.
For those of us who ran Amigas in the late 1980s and early 1990s (and there were more than 0.1% of us), there were Fish Disks which usually contained source for the included programs. Early disks were mostly full of ports from comp.unix.sources, but there was lots of original material also.
You must be new here.
Says ID #850877 to ID #14996
"Karloff did not deserve to smell my shit!"
There are those who believe that this has already happened.
Indeed, we are free to not use their OS, but are we free to not interoperate with it? A project I worked on some years back had a major setback as some clients used an MS proxy server, and due to the NTAuth protocol being undocumented at that time, we were unable to interoperate with it legally.
(As to law and violence, this is still the prerogative of government, but MS do not face the threat of violence, but financial punishment, just as they do each time they are sued in the USA).
So, by analogy, there is no reason for MS's APIs to be (a)undocumented or (b)secret?
Some might also think that bombing innocent Iraqi men is inappropriate behaviour. But I guess they don't count.
I have absolutely no problem with paying representatives well, as that is the only way to ensure that the most talented people seek the job.
I was under the impression that people entered politics in the pursuit of *power*.
Which can fry all your hard drives at once.
2001 is not a book->movie adaptation. The "novel" is a novelization. Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which inspired the film, is only the second act of the movie (the bit on the moon) - the rest is implied.
I grant you that there was a lot of software that was only available on single platforms back in the day. However the parent is discussing operating systems and your examples are hardware platforms.
And interestingly enough, two of those platforms could run UNIX...
Indeed! "I'm not Thursday, I'm the SUNDAY ME!" As well as Lem's Star Diaries, may I recommend his "The Futurological Congress" and "The Cyberiad". These, too, have much of the flavour of HHGTTG (though TFC gets pretty dark at times, sort of an absurd 1984).
Compuserve did not "hold the patent", Sperry (by then Unisys) did. Compuserve merely licensed the patent. See, for example, amongst many other web resources, http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/giflzw.php and http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html Just being pedantic, but the idea of Compuserve ever coming up with something patentable was mind-boggling...
A pity Arkham House went all Disney on licensing, but I guess they had to stay in business somehow.