Xah Talk Show 2020-05-11 Unix, AIX HP-UX, AU/X, Unix, Irix, Posix, Linux, Xenix, NTFS
topics:
- online shopping, consumerism, American
- tablet with only 1 USB port. bluetooth
- why touch screen sucks
- why Windows 10 touch keyboard sucks
- why Microsoft UI sucks for 20 years yet they pay great UI designers?
- linus sucks worse
- Logitech G604 Mouse
- Logitech MX Ergo Trackball
- history of Windows, and Windows NT. NTFS
- Operating System poll
- How Fast is Running Perl in Cygwin or Using NTFS on Linux? (The Price You Pay for Layers and Emulations)
- CPU Speed Benchmark, BogusMips in Perl
- monad, haskell, single thread, parallel computation.
- Mac software rewrite. PowerPC 1995, Mac OS X 2002, Intel chip transition 2005
- naming of Mac OS X, history.
- AIX HP-UX, AU/X, Unix, Irix, Posix, Linux, Xenix
- X is the most dramatic letter in English alphabet. Mr X, XXX.
- parallel programing
- Guy Steele Says: Don't Iterate, Recurse, and Get rid of lisp cons!
- identities of emacs cult, common lisp cult.