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by kev009 7y ago
It's also interesting that nobody implements CKD on storage devices. This complexity runs on a massive POWER AIX box in IBM's storage systems, or in a similar commodity powerhouse running UNIX or an RTOS in similar arrays of the
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by kev009 7y ago
I heard DEC/Compaq ended up basically rewriting the whole thing in OSF/Digital Unix/Tru64. Anyone with stories on that kernel?
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by kev009 7y ago
Johannes Lundberg wrote a thesis on doing this with FreeBSD and has a framework https://github.com/johalun/rustkpi https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1238890/FULLTEXT...
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by kev009 7y ago
The thing has a diesel engine, it's in a different class than those cars. You'd have to get pretty wild with turbos to make any of them perform with similar torque && economy. Or step up to all electric drive which would
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by kev009 7y ago
Yes. It's best to contrast this versus say ARM where everyone has to pay for the ISA and potentially they also license an implementation or partial reusable designs. Sparc, Risc-V, MIPS and PowerISA are royalty free ISAs with open so
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by kev009 7y ago
And they got the highest performance 14nm FinFET process on the market for P9 and z14 while clearing the way to compete against fabless AMD and ARM vendors with P10. If anything, intel looks stupid here after falling behind in fab tech and
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by kev009 7y ago
Consider: 1) SPARC was _never_ commercially competitive versus contemporaries. Not an ISA problem but they never had the design acumen other CPU makers did/do and the manufacturing partners always treated it second rate. I could stop
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by kev009 7y ago
Is it fair to say this is a good case study in the limits of Python and dynamic typing for large scale projects?
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by kev009 7y ago
I've found thriftbooks to generally have usable copies in their good/very good category and they don't use paper bar codes so they are easier to clean up than some other high volume sellers.
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by kev009 7y ago
The case for stronger type systems for layman programmers in an easily understood parable.
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by kev009 7y ago
Honestly saying no is one of the most important things either a startup or large company can have. Saying no gracefully, respectfully, and having the receiving person understand the rational is the hard part. This is one of the function o
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by kev009 7y ago
AMD software ecosystem is pretty bad. They fired many of the Linux platform devs in ~2013 and never recovered. There is nothing like Intel's vtune and even the basic functions like performance counters, MCA support, ECC events etc ar
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by kev009 7y ago
I am an amateur computer historian, and I can confirm it went from good to shit. For instance, I run an archive at ps-2.kev009.com and there is an oldskool cgi search on my site (Xapian Omega). If you search IBM P/Ns or FRUs on G, ve
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by kev009 7y ago
Sure but neither a startup nor raised in the current SF startup culture. Apple definitely has potential to transcend tech and leadership although we need to see 1-2 more changes in leadership to know for sure.
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by kev009 7y ago
IBM is over 100 years old. I don't think most people in tech understand how profound that is, between the obvious changes in leadership but more astonishingly business-sinking technology shifts, industry tanking economic phenomenon, e
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by kev009 7y ago
The internet "works" because, ultimately, core routers have adjacency to other core routers. Everyone propagates knowledge of their adjacency, and you end up having complete paths to every other network. A routing daemon speaks o
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by kev009 7y ago
I've been pretty bummed on "tech" lately because software is such a shit show so this was impressive and inspiring, both the machines and the seeming quality and focus of the employees.
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by kev009 7y ago
Huh? I think you're lost.
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by kev009 7y ago
It seems like you are contorting the blame to "well you should just do more work!" Bureaucratic regulations have costs in implementation, enforcement and non-compliance. Those costs are naturally easy for corporations to absorb
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by kev009 7y ago
Trivial example but the nekochan community for SGI retrocomputing shut down because of it. It's particularly hard for small business or unprofitable things done for fun/sport/public benefit.
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by kev009 7y ago
Yup C# is definitely in the king position for application programming right now. Between .net core, asp.net and xamarin you can target absolutely everything. The main impediment to better quality software is devs raised on Linux having irra
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by kev009 7y ago
I actually think go is being propped up by young people with mediocre experience/jobs that work on glue/ops tooling and thinking they are leet. Go is such a primitive language it feels like systems programming (C) without actuall
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by kev009 7y ago
And bless go for pulling all those users in!
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by kev009 7y ago
The go section is great, it's such a derpy 1980s language: "Go's error type is simply an interface to a function returning a string. Go lacks pattern matching & abstract data types. Go lacks immutable variables. Go lacks
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by kev009 7y ago
It's in use in almost all your financial transactions on IBM Z in their JDK.
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by kev009 7y ago
Heh except if you actually read the comments I present Linux as the high water mark twice for security and stability. Maybe - and I'm only saying this because I care - you should consider through hiking and come back to the discussion
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by kev009 7y ago
This is really the benchmark you want. There are only a dozen lines to patch. AFAICT OpenBSD neither has a cpuset(3) like API nor any intention of growing one, so you can just delete all the affinity code.
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by kev009 7y ago
I'm not banking on any language shift at the moment but could see a plausible case in the past for Ada and maybe now Rust after some more years of maturity both down to the metal. But both of these suffer from some awkwardness around
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by kev009 7y ago
I don't think I can agree scientifically. OpenBSD developers do subjectively seem to think more holistically about security, and having less features lowers the total number but not the ratio and in practice it doesn't seem to ha
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by kev009 7y ago
I use OpenBSD for fun on a couple systems and it is a cute OS, there are things to love about it. But the grandstanding is funny.

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