There's a point in GD threads which come to a slow crawl. I wish I had an equation for such an event.Originally Posted by CornedBee
There's a point in GD threads which come to a slow crawl. I wish I had an equation for such an event.
You should recheck your semantic analysis.
Windows runs on x86 and amd64 -> 2 architectures. (Win NT up to version 4 ran on the Alpha, too. And isn't there a version for IA-64?)
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
Ok sorry for misreading it...
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
Does may mean it does what its not told to.
Owes could also mean it owes much to the mac community
Sucks may also mean it sucks in the competition.
Dunno. I'm on that frame of mind
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
AMD64 is a superset of X86. IA64 is supported by Windows Server 2003....
How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.
I just don't see what's so wrong about having a quiet, pleasant as it has been so far, and pointless conversation. Who knows, maybe something good comes out of it. If not, it served to spend some time.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Lets not forget ARM, and several dozen other targets that run versions of XP Embedded, CE etc.
When you need a feature rich OS that can handle 99% of what your application needs to do with API calls, go with windows.
When you need an OS that doesnt do anything (not meant perjoratively) go with linux.
If you want an operating system where everything is handled in a graphical user interface, go with Windows.
If you love command lines and prefer to do all your work via command lines and manually edit configuration files and such, go with linux.
You could download linux tools for windows like grep, sed, etc.
We have customers running Windows on AS/400 machines under Intel emulation...
Hmm... ok. But that's cheating. Lets stick to actual platforms
No. You don't need to do all your work from a command line in linux. Sorry. And you don't need to manually edit configuration files either.
Last edited by Mario F.; 04-03-2008 at 10:56 AM.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
huh? that'd be 64 cores of the same architecure. I'm talking about 40+ different chip types, x86, x86-64, PPC, IA-32, SPARC, S/390, etc....
edit: holy crap, didn't see the entire next page of posts that already addressed this issue in the five minutes I was gone to heat up my soup
Not to say always. But if you love that stuff, then linux is probably for you.
It really seems that the motto of linux apps is "command line required, gui optional" and "command line must work 100%, gui can be buggy".
This is just from what I've seen, though, so it may not be the entire picture...
I wouldn't even know where to start. So I'm leaving at that.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Linux is for anyone with a sincere thirst for learning. The OS really does benefit from a community that wants to and has the resources to understand their OS completely. Books and people really do help others become literate linux users. Yes, if you ask a question on a guru board, you might get a script as an answer - people will reach for sudo and stuff instead of resorting to the GUI. But that doesn't mean that the shell excludes people.Not to say always. But if you love that stuff, then linux is probably for you.
Last edited by whiteflags; 04-03-2008 at 12:18 PM.
