Need juicy computer news of the past month...

[Prof.Wizard]

I can't check computer news very often here so I have fallen behind with the recent advances in computer technology.

Can anybody give me a small paragraph of what has happened in the industry the past month... errm, with the usual gossip (Tom sucks, Gates said that, ecetera ecetera...)

 

[Mercutio]

There really hasn't been any. Seriously. Very, very slow month. ATI announced a card that spanks GF4s. WD wants a 200GB drive in every PC, Microsoft is going to stop shipping 2000 in December.
Eugene at SR got a half-explanation for crappy SCSI performance in XP.

OS/2 is still dead, and so are SR's forums.

<duck>

 

[Prof.Wizard]

Thanx Mercutio,

about Windows 2000's last month? Why do I have reasons to believe that not everybody is happy about it? I don't remember hearing good comments for XP from you and William (NRG). :-?

 

[James]

XP is fine. Trouble is, you can't run a server with it, so you're pretty much relying on MS sorting out the issues with the server versions of XP within a month or two of shipping them (unlikely).

 

[adriel]

There is always news in parts or sub-parts of the computer industry. They may be outside the consumer market, but they exist nonetheless.

-COTS
-embedded
-instrumentation
-rugged
-commercial: industrial & medical
-defense

example
--real-time OS
--switched fabric standards
--public kiosk & vandal
--VME & c/PCI
--conduction cooled
--signal processing close to sensor requirements

There are newsworthy developments all the time in the computer industry.

 

[Mercutio]

... and if you think PeeWee cares about, say, industrial computing or optical switching applications, you have more faith in him than I do.