This man is a plantpot.
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Apple ipads (again)
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11 years ago
Oh, I have to unkillfile him. This I must see.
Dead between the ears, certainly.
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Many, all server based. They were all claiming software was easily portable, which it wasn't as version improvements at time were not 100% downward compatible. They all claimed you take your source code and take it to another UNIX box and recompile. Of course that was tripe. Most needed some re-writing here and there. But not that much so no expensive total re-writes.
I used Minix on a PC for fun decades ago. Written by Tenenbaum of network book fame. Linux was a PC version with no licence, as was limited Minix. UNIX based as well. I recall having email exchanges with some guys at Helsinki uni when Linux was being written. They were raving about it, I was not as it was just another PC based version. It took off - surprisingly to all. Linux is now used on servers, mainframes and the likes. The PC versions will not be exactly the same as the mainframes. The hooks have to meet up with the hardware it is running on - hence why they are not all the same. The high level stuff should be seamless - in theory. But UNIX and its derivatives all have basically the same attributes. BTW, UNIX it is file based - I doubt you know what that is.
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Dribble has his uses as a confidence booster. No matter how stupid anyone is just reading his posts makes them realise there is one worse off than themselves.
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11 years ago
I gave the link. But idiots can't follow them.
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11 years ago
Total tripe.
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11 years ago
This man is an idiot. He is.
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You are getting it. A laptop and i-pad are too big to be easily portable. The 7" tablets are portable. So why have an expensive i-pad (a chills toy/games machine) when a far cheaper and better laptop can be used at home.
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This man is a plantpot. He pees on his slippers a lot.
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The PC versions were to get students familiar with UNIX. They lacked a lot.
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Because it is big
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11 years ago
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per GB now for SSD drives.
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Lol, that's made my day. Being at Microsoft for 2 days and suffering a cold I needed cheering up. Cheers.
Bob knows a bit obout operating systems, but I'm sure you know that.
There is one person on here I would recognise as a bit of a UNIX guru (probably more than one tbh). You are not that person.
Darren
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per GB now for SSD drives.
These look cheap enough to me.
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know one guy who has an 8 to 10 years old PC. He replaced the monitor to an LCD display about 5 years ago. He was thinking of replacing the PC as it was getting a bit slow. But he installed an SSD drive and it transformed the PC, so no need to spend a fortune on a new computer. It is also silent except for the fan. SSDs can save a lot of hardware and expense.
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well can you actually point out such a laptop that is better than the iPad (assuming you mean the retina iPad. I do ask asked by people wanting such stuff, but caviar and cat food are both fishy to mean but teh porices are differnt.
Don;t forget Apple do do a 7" portable now called the ipad mini and less than
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This man is a pure idiot.
I have been into more UNIX boxes at kernel level than I care to remember. In fact I care not to remember UNIX too much either.
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No, you gave a link to a load of crusty old laptops (what sort of battery life?) one of which had an SSD (a whopping 8GB) and was out of stock.
The 160GB ones are normal hard drives. And crap. Hardly a realistic comparison but then you know that being an expert.
Cheers,
Darren
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I'm honoured. I've not been called pure for a very long time. Ta
What are you on about? At kernel level? eh?
Darren
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It still is tripe, to a large degree.
Condescension, even. I do know a bit about file based operating systems, thank you.
For your information, though, Linux was not and is not a version of Unix. The original kernel was written using clean room techniques as a university project by Linus Torvalds, and was a functional replacement for the version of the Minix kernel in use at his university at the time. Reading his comments about it from the time, he was as surprised as anybody else when it took off in the way it did.
The hardware hooks in the OS obviously have to match the hardware, but that's true of any OS. The high level stuff should indeed be seamless, but that's more a function of the compilers than the OS.
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Virtually every laptop I've seen has been bigger than my iPad. at least 4 times thicker and needs a relatively large brick as a PSU. And I think everyone of them has been heavier and had less battery life and a lower res. display, was useless to take photos with and low sound quality. I've yet to see one of these cheap laptops do a reasonalbe job of showing 720p movies let along using the inbuilt camera for 1080p recording at 30FPS.