Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java processors Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:10:56 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 23 Message-ID: <8i6fv7pdnb4riuvnr8a3e7t9htorgsbpm4@4ax.com> References: <5f101d00-4bc9-4750-939c-cd53605bfa0e@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: K2Qzzs3EAqXk5RLzfhxcSw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15854 On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:17:49 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > "MEGAbytes? Looxurry. Moi 'ole college campus 'ad a grand >total of 128 KILObytes,[*] an' we wuz glad to 'ave it, we wuz. >But yew troi tellin' the kids nawadays ..." Univac made a unit record handling computer with 16K. Yet we had threads in the thing and look-ahead i/o. Someday people won't believe this. A beast like this ran the Vancouver Stock exchange. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Why do so many operating systems refuse to define a standard temporary file marking mechanism? It could be a reserved lead character such as the ~ or a reserved extension such as .tmp. It could be a file attribute bit. Because they refuse, there is no fool-proof way to scan a disk for orphaned temporary files and delete them. Further, you can't tell where the orhaned files ame from. This means the hard disks gradually fill up with garbage.