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Apple's take on mobile Unix

The Mac community was buzzing in late November when the director of Apple's Unix group showed a slide at the LISA Large System Adminstration conference that predicted that the Snow Leopard version of Mac OS X would ship in the first quarter of 2009. However, there were more than...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Mobile, Memory, Apple Inc., Multi-core, Unix, NUMA, Jordan Hubbard, ccNUMA, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Processors, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-12-08

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SGI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

SGI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcyanother M$ victim!Gate$ added another 'win' under his belt as retaliation for embracing Linux.SGI must seek antitrust relief against M$ criminals and focus on Linux only.SGI picked the wrong horse with ItaniumI worked for SGI. They made a lot of blunders over the years, but...

Tags: Linux, Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, Silicon Graphics Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-05-08

Itanium: A cautionary tale

Itanium: A cautionary talepoor performance per dollarunfortunately everyone has a budget, for the price of a single itanium cpu (1.5Ghz = $1900) you can have a complete entry level dual-core system.History lessonSun became the number one UNIX vendor when they came out with SPARC. One thing they did was to...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, EPIC architecture, Inhell, chip, Digital Equipment Corp., EPIC, Alpha, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP PA-RISC, Itanic, Intel Itanium

Discussion threads 2005-12-07

Sun poised to take open-source Solaris step

Sun poised to take open-source Solaris stepI'll let Linux make the most of SolarisAfter a concession to the heated discussion with Alan, Linus et al. on whether or not to borrow FreeBSD code into Linux kernel, I find it a good way to make the kernel better with less time...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, kernel

Discussion threads 2005-01-24

Microsoft shifts researchers to Windows unit

Microsoft shifts researchers to Windows unitThey will switch them back soon...Since they are researchers, they will discover the world doesn't not really need Microsoft. Furthermore, they have will research that irreparable harm was done to the industry.So, MS will realize they won't work out and switch them back.all right!'The...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, desktop OS, Microsoft Corp., kernel, desktop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-08-03