Comments by "Michael Lenczewski" (@kayakMike1000) on "DJ Ware" channel.

  1. Well, this CISC and x86... The CISC architecture could be thought of several special purpose RISC subunits to decide and execute the instructions. Lots of the x86 implementations have RISC CPUs in them to do management and microcode stuff.
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  2. L4 sounds great!
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  3. You might want to check out Plan9 too.
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  4.  @thewiirocks  Agree, all that hardware cache management, bus arbitration... Is probably done with special hidden cores that run on microcode... For example, The Intel management engine is a tiny not-x86 core that runs a tiny minix kernel.
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  5. This isn't something you claim. It's something you exploit.
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  6. Plan 9 was the way the future could have been. This operating system was 20 years ahead of its time. All the ideas to distribute applications across many nodes was implemented in stuff "application servers" like weblogic and later websphere, later tomcat, jboss, and wildfly.
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  7. I ran a small cluster on some old raspberry pi systems. It's a remarkable system, but quite alien. You log into one of your nodes and the namespace pulls in all your file resources from all systems
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  8. Well I disagree with you on a few points. You just said that stacks of software leads to more bugs.... But that's good encapsulation. LUKS concerns itself with encryption, but ext4 deals with the actual files, journals, stats and so forth. Good encapsulation leads to fewer bugs. Also, you NEED to have different configurations for different use cases. File system matters for databases and mongo databases. Some programs deal with lots of small files, others do better with giant files.
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  9. How long is interesting to humans? Is it short enough for the Q-bits to stay coherent?
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  10. Standard? Yeah, I was so sick of the different 'formats' so I tried to create another format... and now it's just all the different formats plus one more.
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  11. Yeah, I was a bit puzzled too, but in Nvidia gets more than 40 billion profit from it, then it makes sense. Their license for the ISA may generate less revenue, but the intellectual property and industry experience is extremely valuable. The engineering talent is probably worth quite a lot more than 100 billion if you can effectively monetize it.
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  12. I run ArchLinux, btw. Guess that makes me hardcore?
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  13. I am writing a tiny kernel for a few microcontrollers, like cortex-m and the tiny RISC-V mcu. I think I will go exokernel with an init process in user space that I will use as a shell to start other programs.
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  14. My first cpu was 1.78Mhz. I still have my XU4
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  15. Armv8 is barely RISC anymore...
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  16.  @CyberGizmo  well RISC-V is a MISC ISA if the M stands for Modular. I think that is a unique feature that's going to make it so much better in the long run!
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  17. Ok. So... RSA 4096 then. Or perhaps some confounding mechanism so there's too many possibilities to consider.
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