User: shieldforyoureyes

Re:Academia's been proposing this for awhile

On: Reverse Multithreading CPUs

So it's a low-latency, low-efficiency opposite of
Sun's Niagra chip.

Re:If you are going to let Spielberg in...

On: Four Inducted Into SF Hall of Fame

If you like Lem, check out the Strugatsky Brothers, especially "Roadside Picnic".

Re:How can you argue with this?

On: Take A Look At Solaris 10

The Sun 386i, running SunOS, was introduced in 1988. I used to own one. It was built like a tank, but... Eh. Not interesting hardware by Sun standards. It was *not* PC compatible, and would not run any other operating systems without special hardware. (Sun has always liked PC-on-a-card add-ons, even going back to 286 boards for VME Sun-3s.)

Irony!

On: Star Wars Episode III To Open Cannes

Perhaps they're doing a theme, and it will be followed
by "Some Kind of Monster".

Re:Context switching

On: Prospects For the CELL Microprocessor Beyond Games

Does this critter actually have 9 MMUs?

Re:lynx

On: Browser Speed Comparisons

Sp... it automatically filters out all the useless crap that makes web browsing so slow? *NICE*. (Posting from lynx, as normal.)

Re:it fits on my old SPARC

On: Where Does NetBSD Fit In?

I used to get a hell of a lot done on my 3B2/300 with
2 meg of ram, running SVR3.