Hate to beat a dead horse, but anyway, one of the normal/. topic *is* money. And this story does have something loosely to do with money. Anyway, News for Nerds is a hell of a lot more than just the OSI-Seven Layer model. 'Sides it is nice to tie my/. addiction to something more connected to the real world than an mp3 playing router, and stories like this give me something I can bring up to people at the bar that might not be complete tech freaks. ya know.
BeOS is a nice platform, but unfortunately there really isn't a great web browser out for it yet. Check out the browser review for BeOS at arstechnica.
Maybe a PC manufacturer will build a custom web browser in order to use the BeOS?
If they are really looking to cut the cost of the machine, linux is probably the way to go...
There is some truth in this... My last girlfriend REALLY DID GET JEALOUS if I spent too much time in front of the computer:) It was mostly due to me working on cs assignments though, and I did find it kind of cute and of course took time away from the monitor every once in a while to give her a few hugs/kisses/whatever to try and show her that i appreciated her coming over and studying in my room while I was working on the latest networks assignment or whatever...
>>Let's imagine that Gates, Jobs and the early >>guys were still there but Gates didn't get >the IBM deal and dos was written from the >ground up. Who knows - we might not be using >Linux now because DOS was written properly >and multitasked from day 1!
That's kinda complicated because you would have to change a lot.
I think there are two main reasons why IBM did what they did.
They were busy fighting an anti-trust case at the time, and it looked good to be able to say, well, look, someone else is writing the os!
They wanted to be able to get a PC out right away (that's also why they didn't produce most of the parts they had, and actually, to this day, all ibm's pcs are made from another company (aptivas are actually made by acer)).
Gates just happened to be in the right place at the right time... so, I think WHO they got the os from could easily be imagined to be someone else.. but ibm never would have wrote it themselves at the time...
Of course it's possible to have a hybrid! Look at the powerPC chip. In designing that chip, they tried to follow the risc mentality, having simple instructions and a low orthogonality. They also however wanted to have powerful math instructions, and you end up having instructions like a+b*c as a single instruction... certainly risc.
CISC/RISC is more than instructions that 'do alot', the complexity of instructions also takes these into account:
CISC characteriscs:
Register to register, register to memory, and memory to register commands.
Multiple addressing modes for memory, including specialized modes for indexing through arrays
Variable length instructions where the length often varies according to the addressing mode Instructions which require multiple clock cycles to execute.
It is not hard to imagine a basically RISC machine that allows different memory addressing modes? gee, what do we have now, a hybrid!
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Opera is nice, but there's a price tag attached to that.
Netpositive... no java... That's okay 80, maybe even 90% of the time... but, when you really need that vm working, what are you gonna do?
One nice thing the ArsTechnica article points out is that the lynx support is excellent for BeOS :)
Hate to beat a dead horse, but anyway, one of the normal /. topic *is* money. And this story does have something loosely to do with money. Anyway, News for Nerds is a hell of a lot more than just the OSI-Seven Layer model. 'Sides it is nice to tie my /. addiction to something more connected to the real world than an mp3 playing router, and stories like this give me something I can bring up to people at the bar that might not be complete tech freaks. ya know.
Maybe a PC manufacturer will build a custom web browser in order to use the BeOS?
If they are really looking to cut the cost of the machine, linux is probably the way to go...
No program is complete until it has the ability to read your mail.
So i guess that goes for all devices as well now..
There is some truth in this... My last girlfriend REALLY DID GET JEALOUS if I spent too much time in front of the computer :) It was mostly due to me working on cs assignments though, and I did find it kind of cute and of course took time away from the monitor every once in a while to give her a few hugs/kisses/whatever to try and show her that i appreciated her coming over and studying in my room while I was working on the latest networks assignment or whatever...
>>guys were still there but Gates didn't get
>the IBM deal and dos was written from the
>ground up. Who knows - we might not be using
>Linux now because DOS was written properly
>and multitasked from day 1!
That's kinda complicated because you would have to change a lot.
I think there are two main reasons why IBM did what they did.
Gates just happened to be in the right place at the right time... so, I think WHO they got the os from could easily be imagined to be someone else.. but ibm never would have wrote it themselves at the time...
Of course it's possible to have a hybrid! Look at the powerPC chip. In designing that chip, they tried to follow the risc mentality, having simple instructions and a low orthogonality. They also however wanted to have powerful math instructions, and you end up having instructions like a+b*c as a single instruction... certainly risc.
CISC/RISC is more than instructions that 'do alot', the complexity of instructions also takes these into account:
CISC characteriscs:
Register to register, register to memory, and memory to register commands.
Multiple addressing modes for memory, including specialized modes for indexing through arrays
Variable length instructions where the length often varies according to the addressing mode Instructions which require multiple clock cycles to execute.
It is not hard to imagine a basically RISC machine that allows different memory addressing modes? gee, what do we have now, a hybrid!