OT: OS bloat, CPU's, etc. (was Re: Record locking)

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:32:43AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > And yesterday Gates was speaking to a group of hardware
> > manufacturers and he said "free software can do some good stuff,
> > but not the really good stuff".  Hm.  He seems to forget that the
> > most popular web server is still Apache, and more mail is
> > transported by Sendmail than anything else.   Those two support a
> > lot of the 'net as we know it, so I wonder what he thinks the
> > "really good stuff" is.

> The really good stuff... is all that stuff that OpenOffice.org
> *is doing*. I just installed 1.1.0 for a client as an upgraed.
> It took care of all the problems they had with 1.0.1, and
> they're happy (so far as I know) as clams.

And if they don't mind spending the $80 they can get the latest
from Sun.   I just checked and there was a product update on
March 5, for all platforms.


> > The slowest G4 is 1.25 GHz now.  Many still think the Apple line is
> > still 100% proprietary but the high end video cards in the current
> > lines are Nvidia and ATI AGP 8X.   PCI is really HW independant
> > though many think of it as Intel only.

> And Apple solved the "how do I boot it" problem very cleverly, joint
> venturing, IIRC, with Sun on OpenFirmware -- the BIOS boot code is
> written in *Forth*, with the dictionary standardized and the
> interpreter in the BIOS on the mobo.  Since well compiled Forth is
> *more efficient* than assembler, this is quite tasty indeed...

On my NeXTStep secondary apps the CDs were shipped in a quad-fat
format. Motorola [original NeXT machine], Intel, Power-PC and ???
- memory fades ....

Bill

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