Every Linux distro seems to include a default compiler that is horribly out of date. Many times this is because academics on standards committees don’t have a clue about the real world. In particular how academics decided without seeking real industry input to force C/C++ compilers to store all integers as 2’s complement. Obviously they’ve never done device interface programming or worked on a Unisys mainframe. Yes, I’ve written about academics and their butchering of … Changing Default Compiler on OpenSuSERead more
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Business/Enterprise Class Computing
We now have a generation of kids who never worked on real computers, only x86 platforms; so Business Class Computing needs to be explained. This all started with an exchange I had on the qt-interest list with someone I respect. -Text isn’t a stream. Katepart would disagree. part of the exchange, their response to my previous message I run into this a lot when people have only worked on x86 based platforms or Unix. They … Business/Enterprise Class ComputingRead more