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I have been puzzled about something for a while. Why do people assume that BeOS was the greatest thing since sliced bread, that was defeated by an evil conspiracy? The author of the linked article is a technical writer that likely understands exactly zero about OS internals. BeOS was heavily...

Just to qualify my statement above, there are some applications that roughly double on a 64bit machine. Encryption is a good example, although some of these benefits may already has been realized with the x86 SIMD units. Floating point is not. IEEE 754, 64bit floating point has been available...

64bit computing is really only of interest to applications with data sets greater than ~30bits. Recognize however, that you certainly don’t need 4GB of physical ram to enjoy benefits from a 64bit cpu. As I mentioned on SR, programming the x86 was only a hassle when the data or code couldn’t be...

You can thank John Lasseter formerly of Disney, more recently creative founder of Pixar Studios for the BSD Daemon. This is a rare shot of him standing. He's usually running (in the background).

Wait, you have missed my point. Carrier extension applies to transmit events, not frames, under 512 bytes.

That's 4096 bits, or 512 bytes. Note also, that reasonable performance does not require frames greater than 512 bytes in size. While a transmit event must be at least 4096 bit times long, that event may contain multiple frames. In fact, gigabit ethernet supports frame bursts up to 64k bit...

Tom Demarco would not have approved of those conditions. I am sorry to hear that you had such a negative experience as a programmer. Having seen the many ways in which you have helped people with tricky IT problems on SR however, I suspect you are right where you belong.

Maybe not 10x just yet, but 8x is not unreasonable. As described here, I have measured 90.5MB/s over copper, with an mtu of 1500 octets. That usable data, after the overhead, with dirt cheap NICs.

I was just yanking your chain. I knew I could join at any time. BTW Above you mention that you are not an engineer, but I could have sworn that I once read you briefly had a job as a programmer over a garage or a machine shop. Am I confusing you with someone else?

This issue has been floating around here for a couple of days. When I said on SR that “while a cache may be used as a buffer, not all buffers are caches”, I was using industry shorthand. The term cache, is of course short for buffer cache, which literally means a store of buffers. When used...

I had no idea that some people got invitations. As Tannin observed, I have been aware of SF for some time now. I resisted joining, only through the flawed logic that belonging to one board would consume less of my time, than belonging to two. In the end, I spend plenty of time following...