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Whistler - Pah! jkgh3-Jan-01 22:23 jkgh 3-Jan-01 22:23  Now had you said blackcomb (I think it's called!)...! ATL Student Re: Whistler - Pah! Chris Maunder4-Jan-01 18:02 Chris Maunder 4-Jan-01 18:02  I'm still hoping Microsoft will hold their launch party at Whistler They better release it soon - the snow season will be over in a few months! cheers, Chris Maunder Re: Whistler - Pah! jkgh5-Jan-01 13:14 jkgh 5-Jan-01 13:14  ... but there will be another NEXT year! ATL Student Not enough options... Christian Graus3-Jan-01 2:17 Christian Graus 3-Jan-01 2:17  How about "nothing, I'm too jaded", or "People finally realise that C# is really quite ugly" ? I've been reading my VCDJ, and everything I read about C# seems to me to indicate that they have changed aspects of C++ just for the hell of it. I mean, a language that ENCOURAGES use of goto ( I'm talking about switch statements, what a mess they will be to read if used incorrectly ), the need to call new on all variabler ( just found this out yesterday ), all sorts of changes to make things more 'consistent', like no semicolon at the end of class declarations... The mag triumphantly stated that this would save an extra build for when you forget to put it there. However, I know enough about C++ ( and I'm sure most here do as well ) that initially it will CAUSE an extra build while getting used to the missing semicolon. Overall, I am yet to be impressed. Yes, I have the VS .Net beta. Christian The content of this post is not necessarily the opinion of my yadda yadda yadda. To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion. What about... Masoud Samimi2-Jan-01 10:29 Masoud Samimi 2-Jan-01 10:29  Hi, What about this thing Mr. Linus Trouvaldes (The Linux Dad!) is doing? The whole OS in a chip! I am really looking forward to this one to finish, I have no idea about what happened to it!? Any body knows!? "Silence is golden, but my eyes still see." -- Masoud Samimi Website: www.geocities.com/samimi73 Re: What about... 2-Jan-01 13:25 2-Jan-01 13:25  you mean Transmeta? it's not an OS-in-a-chip, they're making low-power cpu's. some manufacturers are already using them. Re: What about... AlexMarbus7-Jan-01 12:02 AlexMarbus 7-Jan-01 12:02  Actually, he (and some other guys) created a processor that can do a little thinking for itself, named Crusoe. The processor doesn't have an OS on its own, although it is a pretty kewl one. It uses very little power, so it is very nice to use in notebooks or other portable devices. It is pretty fast, something we can't say about the OS he has created in the past . It also is fully x86 compatible. Now for the best one: the processor itself is surrounded by a software-layer, the so-called "Code Morphing Software". Whenever this software receives some x86-instruction, the software will translate this to it's own instructionset, and caches the instruction and the optimized one. The next time the same instruction is sent to the processor, the optimized one will be send instead. There is a lot of information 'bout this on TransMeta's homepage. I wonder when Mr. OpenSource will publish the blueprints, so we can create, adjust and optimize our own processor -- Alex Marbus Fully Windows-minded .. (And BeOS freak!)

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