I think you've suffered a minor memory leak... Win98 was a deep low point. Win98 SE, on the other hand, fixed many of the problems with the original Win98 (just as Win95 was crap, but Win95 OSR2 was usable).
But as noted by another poster, nothing in the Win9x series could measure up to OS/2 3.0 for a serious OS.
Well, LibreOffice could sure use some more work, for starters. Plus there's no decent debugger for GCC. Cristian Vlasceanu wrote ZeroBugs, which is much closer to a full-featured debugger for GCC, but then he got a day job and hasn't been able to support it very well.
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Den onsdag den 1. oktober 2014 18.52.24 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
I do all my Zynq development in Ubuntu, when you work with linux not using Linux is just more trouble
Ubuntu requires no more work than windows, and all the linux tools are available with a single command, not hours of searching the net hoping there's a semi functional win32 port
1) those are apps, not the operating system
2) if I can't/won't afford MSWord+VisualStudio+etc then it is even less usable/workable than LibreOffice :)
3) gcc worries me, based on Mike Stumps' recent postings and attitude on comp.arch
But at least with Linux I has a working, useful, usable operating system and computer with peripherals (unlike with MS+WinXP).
Besides Win8 required "so much more work" that they had to skip a version to Win10 :)
So what do you do with just the kernel? Bash is an app, too.
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Until Win2K, I would agree. Since, it does "just work". At least. I don't even install it. It "just works".
So you're saying that your experience is universal? That's how I felt about Ubuntu. I just deleted it, threw away the DVD, and put the system on the shelf. I bought a dock for my laptop and never looked back.
Nonsense.
Except when it's *never*.
Because you *bought* them to work with Linux. I never got any printers or scanners working *completely* under Linux (SuSE). Under all flavors of Windows, since Win3K anyway, they "just work". the worst I've had to do is download drivers (easy).
All those FPGA resources are there, so we may as well use them. We need some FIFOs for timing (gotta load the DACS at the right rate) so making the FIFOs big costs nothing.
We have ginormous waveform files stored on the SD card. The software reads those files, applies gain and offset factors, optionally sum in noise, then loads the i/q FIFOs. Loading dram, and scheduling DMAs, wouldn't be worth it here.
We may do an 8-channel waveform playback machine similar to this, and it might benefit from DMA. We could move the cals and such into FPGA hardware.
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The Windows kernel is even worse for real-time (hard or soft). It randomly changes (i.e diddles with) each process' priority in order to "unblock" mutually deadlocked processes. I suppose they had never heard of priority inversion and how to deal with it.
(Of course the real reason is that in a non-realtime workstation or server, fiddling priority might indeed be the best workaround)
This was XP, which was after Win2k, so what's your point?
Er, no. Whatever gives you that idea? Strawman argument.
I'm not prepared to sit twiddling my thumbs while for each of the >20 download-install-reboot cycles required to get WinXP fully updated. Instead I get on and do something more productive than installing an OS, occasionally returning to press a key to start the next cycle.
I've only had "never" with WinXP; GNU/Linux has always "just installed and worked".
Er no. What makes you think that? Strawman argument.
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