* Re: geese guys! [not found] ` <39C2AEF4.C882E59F@swbell.net> @ 2000-09-18 0:00 ` Richard Riehle 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison 2000-09-19 5:05 ` wv12 2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Richard Riehle @ 2000-09-18 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) John Magness wrote: > > But consider what a blessing Windows is to the world economy! > Think of all the jobs created due to the requirement to continuously > maintain all that wretched MS software. The pager industry alone would > be half its present size with out the demand for on call MS > administrators! > John Reminds me of the "good old days" when we needed to hire a battalion of systems programmers to keep an IBM OS, DOS, or other IBM mainframe system operational from one day to the next. Richard Riehle AdaWorks Software Engineering http://www.adaworks.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: geese guys! [not found] ` <39C2AEF4.C882E59F@swbell.net> 2000-09-18 0:00 ` geese guys! Richard Riehle @ 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison 2000-09-19 5:05 ` wv12 2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Ted Dennison @ 2000-09-19 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <39C2AEF4.C882E59F@swbell.net>, jmagness@swbell.net wrote: > But consider what a blessing Windows is to the world economy! > Think of all the jobs created due to the requirement to continuously > maintain all that wretched MS software. The pager industry alone I have decided that I love Windows. It just saved my butt. Our project has a requirement to work within %50 of our hardware's CPU and Memory capacities. I also have a requirement to continuously keep a copy of the last 10 minutes of the run for possible replay. But we only had enough memory to save about 4.5 minutes. I was looking at having to write some kind of custom real-time compression algorithm, but we were *also* butting up against our CPU limit, even with full optimization. I designed things the best I could, but it would be *my* fault and *my* problem to fix if things didn't fit. Talk about a no-win situation. Microsoft to the rescue! It turns out that our Windows2K based operator station (which uses the same hardware) was running so slowly that they decidied they needed to upgrade everything to PIII systems with twice the computing power and 4 times the memory. I'm saved! I think that I'm going to have to have to go buy a copy of WindowsME this evening, just to show Bill my appreciation. Yea, Microsoft! Of course I'm suggesting all sorts of new ActiveX 3D features for the operator station designers to slip in, just to be on the safe side. :-) -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: geese guys! [not found] ` <39C2AEF4.C882E59F@swbell.net> 2000-09-18 0:00 ` geese guys! Richard Riehle 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison @ 2000-09-19 5:05 ` wv12 2000-09-19 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen 2 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: wv12 @ 2000-09-19 5:05 UTC (permalink / raw) Do not despair. The uncrashable Ada OS will run sometime this century, before Intel announces their 2 GHz processor. jmagness@swbell.net wrote > But consider what a blessing Windows is to the world economy! > Think of all the jobs created due to the requirement to continuously > maintain all that wretched MS software. The pager industry alone would > be half its present size with out the demand for on call MS > administrators! > John > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: geese guys! 2000-09-19 5:05 ` wv12 @ 2000-09-19 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen 1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: E. Robert Tisdale @ 2000-09-19 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) wv12@my-deja.com wrote: > The uncrashable Ada OS will run sometime this century, > before Intel announces their 2 GHz processor. Ada is a computer programming language -- not an operating system kernel. You can't make an operating system kernel more reliable just by rewriting it in the Ada programming language. Much more is required than that. The Linux operating system kernel is very reliable. A well designed implementation of Linux in the Ada programming language would still require some time to mature and stabalize. What might really help is an Ada like shell script language that could be used instead of sh, ash, bash, bsh, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: geese guys! 2000-09-19 5:05 ` wv12 2000-09-19 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale @ 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison 1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread From: Tarjei T. Jensen @ 2000-09-19 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) wv12@my-deja.com wrote in message <8q6s75$e62$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >Do not despair. The uncrashable Ada OS will run sometime this century, >before Intel announces their 2 GHz processor. They better be quick. This century ends on midnight, december 31st. Greetings, ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: geese guys! 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen @ 2000-09-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison 0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread From: Ted Dennison @ 2000-09-19 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <8q736s$ibq6@news.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote: > > wv12@my-deja.com wrote in message <8q6s75$e62$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... > >Do not despair. The uncrashable Ada OS will run sometime this century, > >before Intel announces their 2 GHz processor. > > They better be quick. This century ends on midnight, december 31st. Also, Intel just annouced their latest processor "roadmap", which includes a 2Ghz processor. So depending on what you consider an "announcement", that Ada OS would have to be done *now*, or by Q3 of 2001. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
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