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What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1980
Well, tend to, but are by no means guaranteed to ... I've used multiprocessing (as in, 2 to 8-way SMP RISC UNIX) systems that weren't at all "smooth". And that's with both...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1981
I realized that. I'll try. Since I didn't do any of the coding, anything I say will be second...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1982
The current threads on *n*x is just like c++, a problematic implementation of a pretty good idea. *n*x, in the clbuttic implementation that is done in the...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1983
Which, IME, dooms it because there is no long range plan for extending the feature included in...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1984
It is "on behalf of the user". Only scheduling, context setup and interrupts&exceptions really need ring0 priviliges. The rest can be done...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1985
Well, there is smp and there is SMP. It is a hard thing to do right. Just see how much struggling otherwise very competent people had with the...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1986
Andrew Swallow The Z80 came out in 1976 and was a single chip beastie that cost a fraction of the price to make + sell...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1987
You were taught????!!!! And, since it was 7th grade, you couldn't have asked why without getting labelled as a trouble maker. I never did. I watched my college roommate do it...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1988
Eric Chomko She's got all the hardware she needs... An 800mhz PIII should be a reasonable Linux box. If she needs more I'll send it. I just raided a number...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1989
This is why pagers and mobile phones can have email sent to them. There are, of course, legitamate uses...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1990
killall -KILL firefox Seriously; the degradation happens pretty gracefully as it swaps more and more. Then, if you don't address the issue it will go into...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1991
Sound is a good way to triangulate a position. I can't imagine running a disk farm and not using the sounds to locate disharmony. We did not use databases...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1992
They should be on different physical hard drives in a performance-critical environment. Notwithstanding that; there are some good filesystems that...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1993
Nope. That work is going overseas because the coding biz priced itself out of compebreastion during the dotcom and Y2K insanities. In addition, there seems to...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1994
Eric Chomko Yeah, clearly. All I know about PERL is that it is "write-only". I also know that people who rely *heavily...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1995
Eric Chomko You have the luxury of developing without a schedule? Purely a hobbyist writing...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1996
Bernd Felsche The thing is MS do have some real Engineers, and some very very good ones. The problem is that they don't actually seem to have anything...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1997
No, haven't found any tools beyond the standard stuff everyone uses, ($EDITOR, cvs, spec writing etc). The process has come naturally to everyone that has extensive experience from working...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1998
LOL, no problem, AFAIK it is out of service. If it isn't they are welcome to invite me to do some Consulting for them. ;) It was an important choice because we were so short...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 1999
I have, and as good a book as it is, it isn't perfect. I like the one about, "if a woman can produce a baby in nine months, then nine women can...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2000
Eric Chomko) writes: Nothing is - that's our point. Still, it has a lot of good things to say. That's one of my favourites, too - although Brooks expresses it as the converse (i.e. reality...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2001
Agreed. No doubt. I like the fact that he felt the Waterfall Model was flawed and stated so 25 years after the fact. I...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2003
Yep, luck... The problem was the manager's interpretation of what the customer wanted differed what the customer actually wanted. Now, I deal with managers...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2004
Okay, Charley isn't lazy. Only because you say so. If you said yes, you might be surprised...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2005
Eric Chomko) writes: Hmm, someone must have done a Linux port to a big-endian...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2006
Don Chibutton Well, yes. I don't think we disagree. Unfortunately, many managers are reluctant to let contracts that do not promise to deliver a defined product...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2007
ACLs are NOT write protection. A *mechanical* switch that breaks the write circuit of the heads is write protection. Everything else is smoke and mirrors. Nothing a...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2008
More handwaving. Physical penetration of the hardware is not an OS security issue - which is the *only* thing I made any claim about. Not...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2009
snip snip There are some clues in the first snippet above. "customers wanted" client-sewer computing. The PHBs wanted the power to manipulate the data. And they wanted it to be easy. Which as...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2010
And see all the examples of "One man's noise is another man's information". Ref the discovery of the universe's background radiation, or the narrow avoidance of the US Navy scuttling...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2011
I don't care for it either. I used the nouns because it described the work (thus the thinking habits) of the people who...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2012
Morten Reistad I don't think they are mindsets, I think they are skillsets. The naming is utter tripe, she shouldn't use...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2013
It seems she was kind of tied to the mast at DEC when that ship went down; and hasn't taken in what has happened in the computer industry since around...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2014
I gave up a long time ago. Her persistent "I refuse to understand anything that's not TOPS-10...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2015
Greg Menke Oddly enough the compiler weenies probably get there first too... What do you think happens when a decent compiler + OS combo trips over a FP error ? The decent combo...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2016
OTOH, we had a situation where the floating point context switch wasn't complete due to a poorly documented fpu register, leading to a case where a particular sequence of task switches and...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2017
You have to care in a variety of ways if you intend to operate a internetworking protocol, or even a protocol that will ever operate beyond its original design space...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2018
I think its a reasonable analogy for the most part. It has a number of other applicable elements; - senders may request qualities of service "expedited...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2019
some amount of networking used to refer to (copper line, point-to-point) communication. it was one...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2020
This is where Linus had some run-ins with this group a few years ago. It had to do with a posting I made to a...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2021
Michael Wojcik Sure... But I wasn't really thinking in terms of wall-clock or network time. I...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2022
370 virtual memory architecture was originally defined in such a way that TLB entries could be either STO...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2023
Peter Flbutt I'm agreeing violently. I do, frequently. In general silicon designers are not keen on big register files because as they get...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2024
I think I have a copy of 4.3reno source distribution someplace in the archives. we had been asked to do...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2025
I would tend to agree, but I'll summarize them for BAH, so she can make an informed choice. Under the hood there are two worlds, Linux and BSD, but they are pretty...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2026
rpl SNIP Those don't even register for me. I've seen x86 kit to last me a couple of life times, I am not particularly interested in seeing more of it. I am interested in unusual...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2027
romp & rios were risc with no provisions for cache consistency ... i've commented that 801 design was somewhat reaction to hardware problems in the 70s 1) FS (future system) in the early 70s was...
The future of oil was: What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2028
wrote, in part: Intelligence is defined as an organism's ability to process information in an effective manner so as to enhance its survival. Even dinosaurs posessed...
The future of oil was: What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2029
I don't have a problem with individuals; it's when those individuals form groups - or mobs - that things get...
The future of oil was: What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2030
Is it a desire to have babies that's hardwired - or the twin desires to have love and to look after what...
The future of oil was: What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2031
keith) writes: I suppose this explains the black market for abducted babies. The sight of a cute...
The future of oil was: What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2032
You buttume that the trigger is the little gurgling kid, rather than the kid is a means to service a hardware interrupt (inBAH terms...
The future of oil was: What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2033
Well, at least in this criminal example. :-) Neither would I. Unfortunately, some people do think this way. But we digress. I agree that we've doing some...
The future of oil was: What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2034
Agreed so far. Non-sequitur. I'll agree that human females have an instinctive desire to cuddle and take care of a baby. However, that doesn't have to kick in...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2035
Kelli Halliburton Some of the later -8's (VT78 anyone?) were very much personal microcomputers. The...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2036
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:31:52 +0000, Eric Chomko Actually, if memory serves, the PDP-8 actually pre-dates the...
What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2037
IA-64 canned and were apparently moved onto a next-gen x86 project. A bunch of engineers were moved from HP to Intel to do a...
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