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The origin of Unix

Almost everyone thinks that Unix originated with Thomson, Ritchie, and others at Bell Labs in 1969/70, and thats correct but not true. They wrote the first code, originated many of the technologies in Unix, enunciated key design ideas were still exploring today, and demonstrated...

Tags: Operating systems, Multics, Unix

Blog posts 2007-03-30

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The layered approach ... my wish for a future OS

The layered approach ... my wish for a future OSSounds a lot like BSD to me....BSD (and therefore Mac OS/X) has much the same structure as the one you describe. Indeed this structure has some inherent advantages.However, in practice BSD doesn't have a stability or reliability advantage over Linux. Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OS Model, operating system, BSD

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Thinking about multicore and software

Thinking about multicore and softwareThanks! NT:)RE: Thinking about multicore and softwarePaul,Provided a link to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , which is a website for resources related to multicore processors.Independent JobsIn the Enterprise, dual core makes sense for handling anti-virus, encryption, and other annoying security overhead functions. When you start...

Tags: Network technology, open source, T2, MULTICS & PAPPL, Thinking about multicore, hardware, software

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX

Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIXIBM, bah!I always considered AIX as the fork that broke UNIX' back. IBM was very late to the UNIX party, and instead of paying 5 bucks for a copy of SysV UNIX, they instead re-invented the wheel badly by re-writing UNIX...

Tags: Operating systems, IBM AIX, IBM Corp., Unix, Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-04-22

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patentsFreakin' Lyin' Bast***s!Wow, after all the months of BS now about how open and closed source can work together - POW!!! RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES. Gates & Co. are lucky Bush & Co. believe in monopoly, otherwise the comments of that federal...

Tags: Now Microsoft, Gates & Co., Pandora, Microsoft Corp., patent, open source

Discussion threads 2007-05-13

OS ranking - confusion to the nth

OS ranking - confusion to the nthReliability and ease of useAre the two criteria that I would put at the top.Reliability should be a given, it's probably only because of Windows 3.1 that we have arrived at the absurd situation that some people are amazed at the idea of an...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-04-03

The origin of Unix

The origin of Unixrewriting history to suit your ideaologyreally, you have an adgenda and you've rewritten "your" version of history to suit it.no wonder no one has bothered to comment on this rubbish.Too muchI can certainly respect your admiration of Unix, both the platform and the philosophy. I've worked on...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-03-30

"Free" as in "unfettered"

Jorwell's comment yesterday: I still don't see what Unix has to do with it Given that many mini manufacturers were already delivering exactly what you describe back in the eighties including the smart terminals I cannot for the life of me see what...

Tags: GNU

Blog posts 2006-08-11

The role of IT

The role of ITI still don't see what Unix has to do with itGiven that many mini manufacturers were already delivering exactly what you describe back in the eighties including the smart terminals I cannot for the life of me see what the operating system has to do with anything.Trying...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, Ulm, Unix

Discussion threads 2006-08-10

The Office UI retraining canard

Since the first details of the radical overhaul of the user interface in Office 2007 (er... 2007 Microsoft Office system) were revealed, I have seen numerous references to the "cost of retraining" this reinvention of the human computer interface will precipitate. Having worked with the beta for a number of...

Tags: Microsoft Office

Blog posts 2006-06-01

APL, COBOL,

APL, COBOL,GOTO "hell"APL is another example of too much rope. Something that is infinitely configurable is infinitely breakable! The ability to write an entire program on one line makes for some VERY hard to read programs. And I DO wonder about the security implications - would code audits become unmanageable?...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, APL, programming language, programming, COBOL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-07

IT Commandment: Thou shalt honor and empower thy (Unix) sysadmins

In data processing your machine operators are nobodies - essentially semi-skilled labour invisible to anyone outside the glass room. In science based computing (i.e. Unix), however, your sysadmins are the people who work with the user community to make and implement the day to day tactical decisions characterizing successful systems...

Tags: data processing

Blog posts 2006-03-21

Linux and trademarks

Linux and trademarksTrademarks and spam[i]Unfortunately, a lot of water has gone under the Linux bridge, and now is a bit late to try to enforce a trademark claim.[/i]SO you're saying that fifteen years after a word is coined, it's too late to trademark it?[i]This shows why Microsoft is so prickly...

Tags: Operating systems, Construction, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, window, Linus

Discussion threads 2005-09-16

Forty years of acronymophobia

In response to Dan Farber's blog entry (see Gartner predicts: All roads lead to SOA) and column regarding one of the major themes at this Fall's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Mark Lewis asks "What is SOA?"  All too often, acronyms like SOA emerge from the keyboards of journalists like Dan Farber and me without a...

Tags: RTE, SOA

Blog posts 2004-10-19