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by kev009 2y ago
Qualcomm's RF design is best in class. This is their bread and butter and they have been consistently good at it forever. Apple purchased intel's RF baseband division,which was awful, and has been working on it in secret for year
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by kev009 2y ago
For general purpose systems it doesn't make much sense to lag a release, the amount of breaking change is pretty minimal in FreeBSD these days and it is fairly common to run -CURRENT (main) in production so there aren't a lot of h
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by kev009 2y ago
I believe Apple uses it in at least one of the auxiliary service processors in their current portfolio under the moniker "Darbat" or "L4/xnu" https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&typ
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by kev009 2y ago
There are multiple problems. Storing stems or a rendered mix can be fully durable with some care to replicate it sufficiently. But what of for instance the session files, which are likely tied to custom hardware which eventually becomes s
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by kev009 2y ago
Yeah, we cannot see very far into the future and betting that system software will remain stagnate is not a good bet. If that means wholesale replacement, few of us will understand it at first. Otherwise retrofits will remain the norm for
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by kev009 2y ago
Ahead of what? Compatibles completely eclipse MySQL's operation model by any conceivable metric or operational hygiene.
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by kev009 2y ago
I moved to postgres over a decade ago but have occasionally had to interlope into MySQL/MariaDB infrastructure. IMHO it has been a lesser choice for a long time, typically just clinging onto it because of legacy reasons or an over-inv
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by kev009 2y ago
There is actually a relation, it used to be called SAP DB and MySQL AB renamed it to MaxDB.
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by kev009 2y ago
He already used that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB
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by kev009 2y ago
Thanks that explanation makes sense to me!
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by kev009 2y ago
Well of course, Windows XP is a direct decedent of Windows NT. Maybe you are referring to Citrix or Terminal Server, which are also Windows NT technologies.
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by kev009 2y ago
Yes, mid weight embedded (bigger than RTOS, smaller than big embedded like commercial storage appliances) is probably its remaining commercial niche and it doesn't have the current marquee usages that FreeBSD has in various products an
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by kev009 2y ago
It had some heavy hitters behind it, but my understanding is DEC's effort was mired in organizational problems leading to fractured strategy and commitment. Many vendors were still figuring shared libraries out into the early 1990s so
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by kev009 2y ago
Linux is one of the prime examples of the Worse is Better motif in UNIX history. And to all your points I don't think it's outgrown this, it is not a particularly elegant kernel even by UNIX standards. Linus and other early Linux
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by kev009 2y ago
Unfortunately it is still clear you don't understand my comment nor the linked wikipedia page at all. Windows Shell isn't the same use of the word you are overloading here in this thread and you are out in left field from what ev
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by kev009 2y ago
Correct, SunOS is a descendant of BSD and was the most widely used and renowned one during that time. And like you said, it was the gold standard for easy builds of most contemporary software and enthusiastic support. DEC Ultrix is also BS
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by kev009 2y ago
Again, so too is z/OS a complete UNIX system (from the user perspective). OSF/1 is decidedly not the the BSD side of the Unix wars, it is its own alternative strand against its contemporaries BSD and System V. More specifically,
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by kev009 2y ago
In a limited sense, yes, Windows (without NT) increasingly /used/ memory protection hardware over its life but never in a holistic approach as we typically understand today to create a TCB. I don't believe Windows 2.0 impleme
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by kev009 2y ago
I believe we are obliquely agreeing. To further my thoughts a bit, the distinction I would place on OS/2 over DOS is double: 1) first class memory protection 2) full preemptive multitasking. The distinction I would place against all
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by kev009 2y ago
You didn't understand the parenthetical, busybox has no relation to the Windows shell.
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by kev009 2y ago
So is z/OS. UNIX branding under The Open Group is correctly focused on the user's perception and has little to do with kernel implementation. Mach is is no more UNIX than NT is VMS, to call one the other in this context of kerne
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by kev009 2y ago
It's never been commonplace but can't you still run alternate shells (the Windows term for the GUI, not the command prompt in UNIX parlance)?
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by kev009 2y ago
Definitely impactful for NT4, not for 2000.
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by kev009 2y ago
UBC is one of the more technically challenging things to retrofit onto BSD, see https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix2000/freenix/full_... -- in particular note that it wasn't a universal perfo
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by kev009 2y ago
Only in the user's perception. The implementation is nothing like UNIX, being a Mach2.5 derivative and later additions like DriverKit.
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by kev009 2y ago
This is great! It would be interesting to see darwin/macos in the mix. On the philosophical side, one thing to consider is that NT is in effect a third system and therefore avoided some of the proverbial second system syndrome.. Cutle
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by kev009 2y ago
With the cascade of different clock domains on a core and package, the control loops can spend that thermal budget effectively elsewhere; idling is one of the benefits of CMOS.
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by kev009 2y ago
These cores are typically licensed with class/restrictions so in absolute terms yes but in the financial engineering of how the system is delivered with excess and restricted hardware no (see core types on the prior/shipping gener
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by kev009 2y ago
The CPUs has been a tour de force from the S/360, they have never relented, so empirically yes the customers care a lot or they wouldn't keep doing this. The software side seems to be more a tale of dichotomy. The MVS lineage is
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by kev009 2y ago
The claimed latency for it seems not far off from some other vendor's L3 caches which may be by virtue of rethinking where to share and therefore paying interconnection coherency taxes. The innovation here seems to be adaptive sizing s

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