Re: Re: Re: emc

Hoyt

I was surprised that you fiddled with EMC at all when you have put so
much effort into your own system. What was it you expected to get from
the EMC?

>    From: bjammin@...
> Subject: Re: Re: emc

<s>

> There can never be any real and lasting consistency in open source
> code, unless you have a deity to manage the individual programmers.

What! You telling me that Torvalds isn't a Norse god.

Tom Yager wrote an interesting comment in InfoWorld July 15 02 in a
sidebar to an article titled, "Intel touts RISC alternative."

"There are two wild cards in this game: Linux and AMD. Intel wisely
courted Linux as an early software partner. Whereas Windows ISVs balk at
reworking their 32-bit code for Itanium, most Linux applications need
little tuning to run on the new hardware. Linux is already established
on 64-bit platforms, and developers have long avoided the pitfalls that
cause ported applications to break. The respectability of a commercial
Unix, coupled with Linux's vast software library and brilliant developer
community, gives Itanium 2 a strong software presence out of the gate."

I guess one advantage of the EMC is the fact that it has been ported to a
number of machines and is available for anyone to modify by porting to
new machines as they come along.

Ray