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2010-08-17 Thread Jeff Savit
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Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Savit
David Boyes wrote: On 3/26/09 2:13 PM, "Jeff Savit" wrote: > I'm going to avoid partisan issues, or at least attempt to do so :-) but > some corrections on Sun-specific stuff: > The first part of that is correct, but not some of the other parts, > including the bit

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Savit
latitude for change, and you'll find the userland apps much more familar. I suggest you have a closer look at IPS before you dismiss it out of hand, too. It's not just the packaging, it's also the ability to build a boot environment based on a snapshot that can be rolled back, and

Re: Recompiling MySQL

2009-01-30 Thread Jeff Savit
ript files in that language end in ".d", but there is no command anywhere called "d". Note that Makefile.am, which is (at 5.1.30 level) contains AM_YFLAGS = -d --verbose which looks similar to the error message Thomas reported. regards, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal

Re: byte-code-interpreting CPUs [was Re: How to virtualize Windows]

2008-11-18 Thread Jeff Savit
ll dig out the VMARC files and post it to the H390-VM group on Yahoo, as some people there expressed interest once upon a time. regards, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Field Technologist Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium Drive Email: [EMAIL

Re: byte-code-interpreting CPUs [was Re: How to virtualize Windows]

2008-11-18 Thread Jeff Savit
David Boyes said: On 11/15/08 8:28 PM, "Jeff Savit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A similar machine was the Lilith, created at > ETH Zurich, and oriented around Modula-2. I never saw one personally, > but I recall reading that it had a very stylish teak wood cabine

byte-code-interpreting CPUs [was Re: How to virtualize Windows]

2008-11-15 Thread Jeff Savit
g that it had a very stylish teak wood cabinet! Anyhow, language based processors seem to be a seductive design pattern that hasn't really gained momentum for general purpose computing. Anyone else want to 'fess up to having worked with UCSD Pascal or Modula-2? cheers, Jeff -- J

Re: OpenSolaris on System z [Was: re: Java on zLinux]

2008-03-18 Thread Jeff Savit
tem called "spiedies", but sadly lacking in authentic bagels :-) ) regards, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium Drive Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somerset, NJ 08873 http://blogs.sun.com/jsavit/

Re: Java and Sun

2008-03-18 Thread Jeff Savit
S movement who kept applying pressure to make it happen. Alan Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium Drive Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somerset, NJ 08873 http://blogs.sun.com/jsavit/ -

OpenSolaris on System z [Was: re: Java on zLinux]

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Savit
omputing is just a necessary evil, but for other customers, computing is competitive advantage and they want to do more of it (growing faster than GDP ever can). We plan to serve those customers. I hope this is a helpful response. Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks this is too long (

Re: Java and Sun

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Savit
gah <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Jeff Savit wrote: > Sun has open-sourced Java - under GPL - so an enterprising soul can do > the port themselves if they want, just as we open-sourced Solaris. Get > the Java source here: Is it GPL? Last I knew (not

Re: Java on zLinux

2008-03-17 Thread Jeff Savit
iness driven) choice. I think that's a very defensible choice, actually. It's good to hear from you. Stay in touch. /ahw Thanks, and nice to hear from you as well. regards, Jeff -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium

Re: Java on zLinux

2008-03-15 Thread Jeff Savit
y presentation that described the great work done at Cornell, such as the table-driven scheduler sensitive to guest OS dispatch state, drum to disk page migration, and minidisk migration. Lest we forget... -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.Phone: 732-537-3451 (x634

Re: OpenSolaris

2006-11-18 Thread Jeff Savit
John McKown said: > Isn't that the 128-bit filesystem? I don't even have > enough DASD to create a real 64-bit filesystem. 128-bit is just plain > overkill, for me. > > Does ZFS have any other enhancements that I'm not aware of? 128 bits is overkill for everyone! That's pretty much the idea: if w