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by p_l 1y ago
EL was considered so bad, either Microsoft or HP speed ran an emulator implementation of their own which enabled HP-designed Itanium 2 to lack it.
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by p_l 1y ago
Oracle sales would push you towards HP-UX on Itanium as recommended platform. To the point that once that ended with Oracle's purchase of Sun, there was a lawsuit between Oracle and HP. And a lot of angry customers as HP-UX was pushed
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by p_l 1y ago
Intel's lack of interest in delivering 64bit for "peons" running x86 also was part - I remember when first discussion in popular computer magazines showed of amd64, that intel's proposed timeline was discussed, and it ve
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by p_l 1y ago
First generations of Itanium used same bus and support chips as last HP-PA, thus way simpler migration path involved - some servers even allowed to swap HP-PA for Itanium without replacing most of the server (similar as with rare VAX 7000 a
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by p_l 1y ago
My understanding is that Itanium was also stupidly strict on VLIW, making compilers even harder. Microsoft blogs had examples of some really funky bugs caused by it, too. In comparison, Multiflow was not so bad.
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by p_l 1y ago
Very early intel "EM64T" chips (aka amd64 compatible) had too short virtual address size of 36bit instead of 40, which is why Windows 64bit didn't run on them, but some linux versions did. Rest is well explained by sibling po
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by p_l 1y ago
i960 was essentially iAPX432 done right in its full form. But the major client (BiiN partnership with Siemens) ultimately didn't pan out, various world events quite possibly also impacted things, and finally intel cannibalized the i9
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by p_l 1y ago
Pentium 4 was widely speculated of being able to run 64bit at the time of AMD64 delivering, but at half the speed. Essentially, while decoding a 64bit variant of x86 ISA might have been fused off, there was a very visible part that was co
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by p_l 1y ago
It's not an issue of GPL virality because the CDDL-ed code is not derivative of GPLed code and thus out of scope for GPL. The problem is, IIRC, that GPLv2 does not allow creating a combined work where part of it is covered by license t
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by p_l 1y ago
Oracle can't exactly sue them this way, and CDDL is remarkably less litigation-oriented than some other licenses.
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by p_l 1y ago
I suspect it was less "Alpha is not capable of being low power" and more "We didn't have resources to make low-power from-scratch implementation" including the transistor budget driven by available lithography and c
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by p_l 1y ago
x86 is closer to RISC designs than "respectable CISC" of the era that defined the split between RISC and CISC. It's why huge chunk of instructions on modern x86 can execute in essentially one cycle - the encoding is not all t
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by p_l 1y ago
This was done as part of major UI/UX reshaping in Solaris 10 to make sysadmin lives easier, what it ultimately does is... Edits exports file.. ZFS and ZPOOL tools provide accesses to multiple different subsystems in ways that make more
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by p_l 1y ago
It's only a rampant layering violation if you mandate the use of external layers like Linux device mapper as the only allowed way... Or you haven't actually read through the code and assume based on external user interface. No, ZF
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by p_l 1y ago
Year of work in foreign office of a corporation enables transfer on L1 visa, common tactic in FAANG shops at one point
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by p_l 1y ago
That depends on game actually passing exactly the same parameters to shader compiler and your GPU driver actually building and using the cache. What fossilize does is it generates data of all the parameters passed to shader compilation, and
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by p_l 1y ago
glibc very much suffers from version hell, because: a) glibc will drop older versioned symbols over time making your binary not work at all b) glibc owns ld.so and is not afraid to make incompatible changes, which is why running Sid Meyer&#
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by p_l 1y ago
You need to include not just glibc, you also need to include ld.so sometimes, because older libs can become incompatible with current ld.so (Linux port of SMAC for example), and I fear what it might do sometimes when trying to link openGL o
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by p_l 1y ago
Could be multiple things. One would be training content censorship models. Another would be training general image generation models, because the trick to getting human details like fingers right turned out to be training on erotica then
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by p_l 1y ago
That's standard part of setups like that, the cooperative aspect is that they have to set the memory map so they don't overlap.
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by p_l 1y ago
OpenAMP focuses on RTOS running on "subordinate" coprocessors. This is more of a good old classic partitioning, which was rare outside of hardware with special support for it. Most RTOS + non-RTOS combinations use RTOS doubling as
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by p_l 1y ago
Galaxy depended on carefully coded cooperation between kernels plus firmware support, but otherwise was operating exactly like the proposed Multikernel Architecture. The firmware support was mainly there to provide booting of separate parti
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by p_l 1y ago
This is something that was actually implemented and used on multiple platforms, and generally requires careful development of all interacting OSes. Some resources that have to be multiplexed are handled through IPC between running kernels,
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by p_l 1y ago
I've seen a lot of bad takes about this topic, but "there's no VCs because you can't ransom your clients for extra money" is... out there, special extra. You can raise prices, you're just not guaranteed that
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by p_l 1y ago
It seems mainly localized to Germany
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by p_l 1y ago
"We can change the terms at our discretion" is a line that gets the book thrown at you in court, at least in EU, and that's the start of the humiliation conga for whoever tries to claim such a clause. You cannot insist on a c
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by p_l 1y ago
Depends on what you want to fight about. If your rates were raised and you have not received new contract, if you can drop the service at that point, they can't collect including any cancellation fees. If you want to continue using the
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by p_l 1y ago
That's an interesting topic that someone should sic some lawyers on, tbqh.
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by p_l 1y ago
O365 pretty much always includes a Teams license, so if you're paying for O365 anyway...
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by p_l 1y ago
And even then (let's say 2008), if you purchased the most expensive license (Enterprise processor license) and paid for all sockets (it was calculated per socket, not per core) you could run as many SQL Server instances with as many

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