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by hapless 7y ago
HP wanted Sun, too, but they couldn't afford it -- IBM and Oracle had better offers.
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by hapless 7y ago
You didn't need to get a bunch of extra stuff from Sun, because SVR4 was, itself, a Sun/AT&T joint venture. e.g. The Sun sockets support was in the base SVR4 kernel and libc.
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by hapless 7y ago
If you were using SVR4, you already had the AT&T/Sun TCP/IP, and the AT&T/Sun sockets interface in addition to the old SysV TLI. If you were using SVR3 or earlier, you may have needed extra stuff.
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by hapless 7y ago
Something to keep in mind is that SVR4 is the ATT/Sun joint venture. It was SysV with all those BSD-isms included. Solaris was essentially the reference implementation. Older SysV and SysIII derivatives were a total crapshoot. Depen
245.
by hapless 7y ago
The early versions of Solaris — 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 — were basically alpha quality software inflicted on users as if in vengeance for some unknown crime against the vendor. SunOS 4 was old and crusty but it wasn’t shithouse buggy, and some f
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by hapless 7y ago
It is worth noting how much has changed since this blog post. ZFS on Linux, the dubiously licensed mess that it is, now drives most of the bug tracking and patches. Joyent, once deeply committed to illumos, is now primarily a Linux company,
247.
by hapless 7y ago
Easy to divest when, right now, all of them look like pretty bad investments.
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by hapless 7y ago
You would need the firmware to also be backwards compatible. It's presumably easier to find a socket 478 motherboard with ISA slots and very old-style firmware.
249.
by hapless 7y ago
I don't think the press had anything to do with it. Customers got engineering samples in their hands and they were very, very slow.
250.
by hapless 7y ago
These are pretty bold words, my friend. Opteron had vastly better architecture than the Intel chipsets of the day, but it topped out at four or eight sockets, I forget. IBM, at the time, could offer you Opteron-like architecture and perform
251.
by hapless 7y ago
IBM flirted with Itanium. They spent a lot of money on software support for Itanium. They sold a few hardware Itanium systems to customers who really wanted one. There just wasn't enduring customer demand to make an ongoing hardware&
252.
by hapless 7y ago
You may wonder, what was in this for IBM? The answer is fairly straightforward. IBM used to make proprietary chipsets for Intel chips! The pride of the xServer/xSeries systems were "complex" setups -- multiple chassis -- with
253.
by hapless 7y ago
Using the correct pronouns for trans people. That’s it.
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by hapless 7y ago
The policy in question appears to be affirmatively requiring moderators not to (deliberately) mis-gender trans people, or allow user content to do the same. All these ex-mods wrote these coy essays with discussions of free will and human ri
255.
by hapless 7y ago
If the price rises enough global markets will break down as state actors attempt to seize or hoard oil resourxes for internal consumption So, it’s true, right up until it’s not
256.
by hapless 7y ago
Food prices rise and fall with oil. That’s probably it.
257.
by hapless 7y ago
I do. It works fine. Sometimes you don't have to split a pill, sometimes you do :)
258.
by hapless 7y ago
It's somewhat heavy, but not extraordinarily so. The average smoker consumes just under a pack a day. A heavy smoker might go through two or three packs a day.
259.
by hapless 7y ago
I love to see a rather esoteric math problem that applies to daily life. God knows quite a number of us split pills.
260.
by hapless 7y ago
Every smoker is producing 20 to 40 pieces of litter per day -- every butt that gets tossed.
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by hapless 7y ago
SF makes NYC look like Disneyland.
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by hapless 7y ago
For those missing the context, this was a circa 1985 attempt to execute Forth almost directly in hardware. Very cool, and a bit weird by 1985 standards
263.
by hapless 7y ago
It's free, and it works in wine. What else do you want?
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by hapless 7y ago
Total non starter. IBM won’t license the software for use on an emulator.
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by hapless 7y ago
Unisys. Unisys always had a smaller mainframe share than IBM, and they stopped making new chips sometime in the 2000s. For at least ten years the fastest Unisys mainframes have been very big (proprietary) x86 machines running Windows with a
266.
by hapless 7y ago
Not even close.
267.
by hapless 7y ago
summary: containers have no security story without SELinux.
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by hapless 7y ago
There’s a 1/16 on there. I assume it is a historical oddity. NYSE prices were done in fractions up until a few years ago.
269.
by hapless 7y ago
Well, why didn’t you ride it? The central problem in traffic congestion is all those other drivers ;)
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by hapless 7y ago
/r/the_donald is a cesspit. The "selective enforcement" is that /r/the_donald has been permitted to operate for many years, when similarly loathsome communities were shut down more quickly It has been spared pu

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