On Thursday, March 05, 2020 01:56:27 PM Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:11:55AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >On Thursday, March 05, 2020 03:27:09 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:12PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > That is lieing to the user, and not nice at all. > >> > >> Disable your caches! now! > >> > >> What? Your computer is just 1/3 as fast as it used to be? > >> > >> Computing is about lying -- and trying to not get caught. > > > >Not always, or not in this respect. There are applications where, in > >essence, a real time kernel is (leading to quick responses to real world > >events or similar are) necessary, sometimes for the protection of life or > >limb (as Gene has alluded to). > > nice red herring, but those aren't going to be dependent on a commodity > hard drive unless someone really screwed up.
What kind of hard drive would it use? Was this discussion limited to commodity hard drives?
