Will Pervasive Multithreading Make a Comeback? 657
exigentsky writes "Having looked at BeOS technology, it is clear that, like NeXTSTEP, it was ahead of its time. Most remarkable to me is the incredible responsiveness of the whole OS. On relatively slow hardware, BeOS could run eight movies simultaneously while still being responsive in all of its GUI controls, and launching programs almost instantaneously. Today, more than ten years after BeOS's introduction, its legendary responsiveness is still unmatched. There is simply no other major OS that has pervasive multithreading from the lowest level up (requiring no programmer tricks). Is it likely, or at least possible, that future versions of Windows or OS X could become pervasively multithreaded without creating an entirely new OS?"
That's nothing... (Score:4, Funny)
Question... (Score:1, Funny)
Microsoft's plan is to keep adding cores... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Question... (Score:5, Funny)
The both got gunned down before we could possibly see any downsides to them.
There were a few architectural decisions in BeOS that I felt would have resulted in great amounts of pain and suffering 10 years later.
Haiku (Score:5, Funny)
Take the features and port to linux.
New scheduler rules them all.
Speed improvements would increase the desktop performance.
As they would increase performance with services.
Uh, IRIX anyone? (Score:2, Funny)
A lot of the old unixes had "legendary responsiveness"; you are not a unique and beautiful snowflake.
BeOS fanboys are funny.
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Multithreaded Windows (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:4, Funny)
Multitasking all programs without delay
Open source victory
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No Maybe Yes (Score:5, Funny)
The Japanese must be Jewish too (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think so.
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:5, Funny)
Not seven? so use gzip
compress the fucker
;)
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:5, Funny)
Hahahahah! I found an error in your grammar rant, now you look even stupider than the guy you were trying to talk shit about. How does that feel you pedantic ass?
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:3, Funny)
And that's not something many
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:3, Funny)
I always thought "Be-OS" sounded more gangsta, kinda like bee-yotch or bee-atch or however you spell something that is a slang word.
didn't stop everyone in IT from trying to make fun of me for installing it. I had a friend that developed on the platform, doing some kiosk
type work, which it was well suited for. I had it running the cool particle graphics program, attraction, which also attracted people.
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:4, Funny)
Shows us all how it is done
Educational.
Re:Yes (Score:0, Funny)
Hey, everyone! Don't worry about multithreading! We've got a CS grad student at UNC taking care of it!
:)
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:3, Funny)
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator [threadless.com]
Huh. BeOS fast? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:2, Funny)
And that's not something many
Are you sure? "Oh, sex, where art thou?"
Re:It makes sense with multi-core cpus (Score:3, Funny)
And that's not something many
Re:Here's a better question (Score:3, Funny)
1) Look for a job/project you want to do
2) Lie and claim you can do it, and commit to doing it
3) Learn the hard way how to do it. Because you committed to doing it, you can't quit when you get stuck and hate it.
4) Do just a good enough job to impress the people that asked you to do it
5) Do another project, this time doing it the right way (or at least better).
6) Repeat until virtually no one knows much more than you on the topic.
7) Profit!