Comments on: The Old New Thing http://kosmaczewski.net/2007/08/31/the-old-new-thing/ sin incertidumbre no hay novedad, sin novedad posible no hay más que repetición y, por lo tanto, negación del otro como un ser libre: el ser libre es un ser incierto. (adrian mancuso) Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:29:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Adam http://kosmaczewski.net/2007/08/31/the-old-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-7575 Adam Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:18:25 +0000 http://kosmaczewski.net/2007/08/31/the-old-new-thing/#comment-7575 It is true that nothing better then the internal combusion engine has made it past the starting blocks or the patent horders, but there is certainly a number of large advances in software engineering. Take a look at Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/) or more recently Inferno http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/ for examples of a better solution. Of course naturally I disagree with the way they have done it, but it is quite well done :) It is true that nothing better then the internal combusion engine has made it past the starting blocks or the patent horders, but there is certainly a number of large advances in software engineering. Take a look at Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/) or more recently Inferno http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/ for examples of a better solution. Of course naturally I disagree with the way they have done it, but it is quite well done :)

]]> By: adrian http://kosmaczewski.net/2007/08/31/the-old-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-7567 adrian Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:50:11 +0000 http://kosmaczewski.net/2007/08/31/the-old-new-thing/#comment-7567 Well, Maserati, Ferrari, BMW and Jaguar cars feature a XIXth century architecture: the internal combustion engine. And this doesn't prevent people from identifying them as the best cars ;) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2czvlq" rel="nofollow">And Gates himself has recognized that Windows is based on a Unix architecture</a> so I don't see that as a problem. Linux as an OS works great, much better than Windows, and that's a fact. And it's free. Well, Maserati, Ferrari, BMW and Jaguar cars feature a XIXth century architecture: the internal combustion engine. And this doesn’t prevent people from identifying them as the best cars ;) And Gates himself has recognized that Windows is based on a Unix architecture so I don’t see that as a problem. Linux as an OS works great, much better than Windows, and that’s a fact. And it’s free.

]]> By: Adam http://kosmaczewski.net/2007/08/31/the-old-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-7543 Adam Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:13:13 +0000 http://kosmaczewski.net/2007/08/31/the-old-new-thing/#comment-7543 While I am sure the internals of windows suck really badly, i've recently read thru a large chunk of doco for the linux kernel..and I have to say that it really shows its background ... a 1970's unix based architecture. while it does incorporate modern items, it really needs to be redesigned, the structure is so very very legacy. I was also most ammused to read that a quad core intel chips can still run 8086 code natively...MS is not the only one who takes compatibility to absurd extreems....there are Op's built into the processor that cannot be used unless you turn on 16 bit 286 mode, now that is a complete waste of transistors... While I am sure the internals of windows suck really badly, i’ve recently read thru a large chunk of doco for the linux kernel..and I have to say that it really shows its background … a 1970′s unix based architecture. while it does incorporate modern items, it really needs to be redesigned, the structure is so very very legacy.

I was also most ammused to read that a quad core intel chips can still run 8086 code natively…MS is not the only one who takes compatibility to absurd extreems….there are Op’s built into the processor that cannot be used unless you turn on 16 bit 286 mode, now that is a complete waste of transistors…

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