Comment Cool! M68k had this since... (Score 1) 82
... a year starting with 199...
(except for Sun-3, which uses a completely different MMU).
... a year starting with 199...
(except for Sun-3, which uses a completely different MMU).
ftp://ftp.bitwizard.nl/same/
I used this to keep all versions of the Linux kernel source tree on my computer, with identical files hardlinked together to reduce storage space.
Both diff (blazing fast "diff -purN ") and patch handle hard links, so this was very workable.
It can be slow and take quite some memory (only 128 MiB-1 GiB in those days), but guess 16 GiB of RAM should handle 4 million files fine, as this is about the same order of magnitude as the few hundred kernel source trees I had lying around.
After git arrived, it was faster to just use git.
You see nobody cares about old crap
Indeed, that's why there's no stable ABI: the old crap is removed if new and improved code enters the build(ing).
You can find Tux on women's underwear (Hunkemöller, IIRC) and Belgian chocolates (http://www.belfine.com/en/products/index.asp?t=1&sg=VAL&hg=Reep)
Because they have more faith in the first chapter of the book?
This is on platforms that boot in VGA test mode.
On other platforms, we had kernel mode setting since 1994, through the frame buffer device interface and the frame buffer console. We even got kernel messages printed to the console when running X, but people didn't like them, so they were disabled when the console was in "graphics" state.
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