Little Things That Made Amiga Great

Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:38PM (#25248321)

Everything "has been done before" in computing. The difference is a matter of degree and attention to detail.

And your comment about it having been a thing on mainframes underscores my point.

The server story for Linux is evolving (and maturing) greatly, and very quickly. The Linux of today is not at all like the Linux from 2010. To say that Linux is stuck in some sort of legacy UNIX quagmire is just silly.

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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by pjmlp on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:00PM (#25248887)

So what ideas are actually new, introduced by Linux crowd, instead of copied from either older UNIXes or mainframes?

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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by jzwinck on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:28PM (#25249503)

How about recvmmsg? I never saw that before Linux, and haven't been able to find a reference to anything similar on say AIX or Solaris.

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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by pjmlp on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:27AM (#25251804)

Really?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/re...

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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by jzwinck on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:21AM (#25253961)

Yes really. I wrote recvmmsg. You linked to recvmsg. They are not the same thing.

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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by nix23 on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:54AM (#25254321)

I never have seen a Bitrot resistant filesystem on Linux before NILFS.

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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by otabdeveloper4 on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:24AM (#25252112)

Did you read my comment? There are no "new" ideas in computing. Everything has already been invented in the 1960's. It's the finesse of execution that matters, not ideas.

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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by pjmlp on Monday November 30, 2020 @08:09AM (#25253337)

I did and you are wrong, there are plenty of ideas to bring to the market, when one doesn't constrain themselves to copy mainframes and big iron UNIXes, and catching up with whatever Apple, Google and Microsoft do on UI/UX.

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Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great by nix23 on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:57AM (#25254353)

>It's the finesse of execution that matters, not ideas.

That's a crime to say "finesse" and "systemd" in the same discussion.

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