jhulst - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Honestly, at this point... (Score 2, Insightful) 175

by jhulst on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @08:45PM (#29600671) Attached to: Nvidia Discloses Details On Next-gen Fermi GPU

Sure, they have lots of power, but only when used for parallel tasks. Each individual core is considerably slower than a normal CPU core and much more limited in what it can do.

Unix Turns 40 254

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 07, 2009 @01:24PM from the keep-on-truckin dept.

wandazulu writes "Forty years ago this summer, Ken Thompson sat down and wrote a small operating system that would eventually be called Unix. An article at ComputerWorld describes the history, present, and future of what could arguably be called the most important operating system of them all. 'Thompson and a colleague, Dennis Ritchie, had been feeling adrift since Bell Labs had withdrawn earlier in the year from a troubled project to develop a time-sharing system called Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service). They had no desire to stick with any of the batch operating systems that predominated at the time, nor did they want to reinvent Multics, which they saw as grotesque and unwieldy. After batting around some ideas for a new system, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix, which the pair would continue to develop over the next several years with the help of colleagues Doug McIlroy, Joe Ossanna and Rudd Canaday.'"

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