Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 02:10:12 04/24/02
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On April 23, 2002 at 12:09:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 23, 2002 at 10:41:08, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >>Not as fast as the 35 Teraflops supercomputer recently made operational in >>Japan, http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?224426 ,but with 8.3 >>Teraflops it's still pretty fast: >>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/18/doe.linux.idg/index.html >> >>I think they may use it for research and modeling of geologic CO2 storage >>amongst other things, at the Department Of Energy. But does this mean that for >>large computers Linux is now better or at least equally good an Operating System >>as Unix? >> >> Eelco > > >Linux _is_ Unix... Thanks for clearing that up, Robert, I knew that Linux was based on Unix but I didn't know that there are also now ports to mainframes of it. I believe that IBM started with those earlier this year? So what does one do these days to get more information? Go to Google and type "Unix Linux differences" and read "many journalists failed to notice that Linux is Unix in all but legal title" It is comforting to know that I was not the only one who didn't know. Great service, Google. I read that they now have a paid service also were you can pose the really difficult questions and researchers go looking for answers for you. They are still hiring researchers. Eelco
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