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- Computer Science 101
- Why computers are more and more devices for generating heat from electricity
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Category Archives: real-time
Industrial robots state of the art
During the BP Macondo leak I was struck by the enormous level of skill needed by the robot submarine operators and wondered at the apparently low level of automation available to them. But the absence of robotic equipment in the … Continue reading →
Shocking advances in Operating Systems
And here I was complaining about the lack of progress in OS development “This will blow away any RTOS,” said Cauchy. “We speed up execution by doing things like vector interrupts, I/O memory mapping, and turning off timers.” By Gad!
More petty
The ALMA team has released ACS 8.0 on Red Hat 4.4, downgrading the Linux version from the foreseen 5.2 version. This choice, with the consequent back-porting of the code to the older OS version, had to be taken because of … Continue reading →
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