Hi Volker,
I really hope that I exaggerate but when I spoke with one ofSenior Engineers of
"Sandy Bridge" architecture duringIDF this September I realized where we go. To
be worse,he also agreed, too, even he is working for Intel. The bestin Intel is
their "Physical Electronics Research Department",and moving to smaller
electronic components each two years.
Architecture is almost broken - they become hostages oftheir own success - X86
architecture.
Same is happening with Microsoft - they also become hostagesof their own
success - Windows NT.
They are trying to deploy the latest innovations inside chip/kernel,to improve
their products but not to change interface. Parts ofWindows 7 has been
completely rewritten to be faster just notto be ABI compatible with older
versions of Windows productsline.
At some point in future this has to be stopped. This is whatI'm talking about.
Software engineers (including me, but tryingto improve) live on account of
improvement of computer architecturewhich in turn live on account of
innovations in physical electronics,which does its job the best of all three
industries.
Now I'll go a little bit into economy. Why people by X86?Because they are
cheap! Why people buy Windows Serverplatform? Because it was cheap! So this is
one of examplesof inefficiency or deviation of market economy, of which I'mby
the way supporter but not fundamentalist.
If anyone care about that I could give list of books of well-knownResearchers,
Professors, etc., to read about that. It wasalready written and well studied
but industry/economy usuallyhas to come unfortunately to the dead to see
mistakes. Then,price for recovering is usually very high.
Hope I clarified my perspective, at least a little bit.
Regards - Nedic
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> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:10:59 +0100
> To: [email protected]
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> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions
>
> Hi Uros!
>
>
> > I really do not see need for Python, Perl and other "scripting languages"to
> > be placed in SunOS. I believe that SUN has to buy "Design Patterns"and
> > "Refactoring to patterns" books along with "The art of computer science"and
> > share to their developers to continue developing perfect such importantpiece
> > of software.
>
> I think you are exaggerating a little. :-)
>
> > Also, I would like to say that I believe that SPARC will stay on its lineto
> > be almost the best microprocessor available on the market. If we alltransit
> > to X86 all our knowledge in computer science will worth nothing.
>
> Now you are exaggerating more than a little. :-)))
>
> Let's look forward and make OpenSolaris and IPS and SMF a nice system
> on all platforms.
>
>
> Regards -- Volker
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