Don Stanley wrote: > Even after that they produced a chip > computer that reportedly knocked the socks off the stuff coming out of > Silicon > Valley. But it was too late. I understand the buyer of the bankrupt DEC > shelved > the chip. it must be the DEC Alpha you are referring to. It was a VERY well thought out RISC processor, a clean sheet design learning as much as possible from every other RISC design that had gone before. Intel bought out the rights to the Alpha, and hired most of the hardware developers. The results are now in the later Pentium and IA64 chips. Too bad Intel didn't decide that code compatibility with the 8085 no longer makes sense, nobody writes assembly code now. > Every time the system crashed > it would recheck (redo) the disk files linkage that were not stored on > shutdown. > Well, you never knew which version the next piece of the source file was > linked. > Then you had a source file parts current and parts obsolete. Called the > Vendor > and guess what they said. They worked on it for a week and gave up. As far > as > I know UNIX still has that feature, and I thought I saw it in one of the > earlier > Linux versions. I don't remember which UNIX we were using, Berkley or > the one back East (Dartmouth?). > Not really sure what you are talking about, here. Linux file systems are a HELL of a lot more reliable than mid-80's Unix file systems. I have never seen the kind of issues you mention. A properly constructed Makefile knows which object files need to be recompiled to build an up-to-date program.
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