[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <k159e8$1ea$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

> And perversely, if you squint at a classic hierarchy of devices, 
> directories and files, you can see the Microsoft registry; the primary 
> keys and the hives, the keys, and the data.  (Or maybe if you squint at 
> the registry...  That squinting seems to be somewhat more common.)

You seem to be regarding the Windows registry as a good thing!  Hoff, 
are you sure you're sane??  Such centralized control is a wonderful way 
to run into single point of failure problems.  The Windows Registry is 
so often broken!  Last I looked, it was one of Windows' biggest 
weaknesses.  MUCH more redundancy is required.  Or have they fixed it 
somehow?


> With some platforms, it's common to be handed a relative path (which 
> itself might include a GUID) for various storage tasks (volatile 
> storage, permanent storage, your libraries, executable code, etc) and 
> to then resolve what your application needs to do, relative to those 
> available paths.

The only GUID I'm familiar with is group user id.  What is... nevermind, 
looked it up.  I'll have to learn more about that, and where it gets 
used.  I've seen this kind of thing before, in HP-UX and other places, 
and I find it very user-unfriendly.


> The nice thing with these bundles: it avoids getting applications 
> tangled, and completely avoids "DLL hell".   Yes, at the cost of some 
> storage; usually negligible.

I'm still not a major fan of Windows.  Then again, I'm no longer a major 
fan of any operating system I've ever used.  They all have major 
problems.

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