Submitted by “Since SkyOS build 6179 was released many important milestones have been reached. Among them include USB support, printing support, a new Python port, but I think most importantly, DMA support. We set out to determine how much of a difference DMA made on the installation time, speed of indexing, program loading time, and general hard disk performance.”
If someone *really* knows what pain DMA programming can cause it’s Robert. And therefore the whole success this step has obviously yielded belongs to Robert, too. He deserves our respect.
Great work and a great enhancement for SkyOS. Keep up the good work!!!
Nice write-up, Matt.
The article was pointless.
They were comparing DMA on a (in their own words) “semi-broken config..”
Yes, it means DMA isn’t ready. But if they know it’s broken, why the hell do they do graphs and numbers?
This isn’t of any use to someone on a real, working DMA system.
Well Dolphin they’ve got to keep people happy and looking forward; if they don’t do it via pointless porting of random feature X the Sky OS people have to do it via silly articles like this one. It’s all about the game of taking people’s money for a product in perpetual beta. And if they ever gave their ‘users’ enough time to look back instead of forward they’d see how little true progress was being done and start demanding their money back. It’s a beta see–so anything that doesn’t work will get fixed someday…
Bah, at least when it was ‘free’ to try before I could at least test out the latest releases and see if they worked on my machine, these days I mostly ignore the Sky OS articles. Why should I or most of OSAlert.com care? It’s not news for us, it’s all for the suck^^^^H…err I mean intelligent people who were able to buy into the project at an early date.
–bornagainpenguin
Negative comment, of course. But I called that the moment I saw who wrote it.
You just can’t stand to see this project evolve, can you? It’s gone way beyond the occasional criticism. You’re personally offended by its success.
Good article, Matt.
You just can’t stand to see this project evolve, can you? It’s gone way beyond the occasional criticism. You’re personally offended by its success. —i3x171um
LOL…
Personally Offended?
You think I care much more than I actually do. I’m not offended at all, and really given the project still hasn’t been released, at this point I’m expecting Copland to have been released before Sky OS ever is. I’d have said Vista but we all know sooner or later Microsoft is going to release Vista (buggy or not) just to get the trades off their backs. No, I simply know better than to buy into a proprietory operating system that remains perpetually in beta….especially when they want my cash to beta test their product.
No thanks, I learned my lessons from the BeOS thank you.
–bornagainpenguin
PS: Personally Offended…LOL come back and tell me that I’m personally offended at the success of Sky OS after it’s released, okay? Meanwhile don’t quit your job as a Metamucil spokesperson, okay?
[sigh] I hate when the browser acts up…my own fault for leaping into the Firefox RC3 update like I did, I suppose.
Any way, nice how you modded me down simply because you disliked my post. Too bad you can’t mod away the truth and too bad I’m quite capable of returning the favor.
–bornagainpenguin
Edited 2006-10-17 21:13
I just want to clarify, if it sounded ambiguous in the article, neither the base system nor the SkyOS install in general were “semi-broken.” The part that was not fully working was the control system (no DMA support, or build 6179 http://www.skyos.org/?q=node/551 ), and while we recognize that this isn’t the most sound in terms of the pure scientific method, it was the best we had, and as you probably know, you use what you have. The build 6179 control had packages removed and other differences that cause dissimilarities acros a direct comparison, but we were testing the DMA, and not the myriad other variables, and I maintain that if repeated 100 times on the same system, due to the nature of the system, you could see 100 different results.
However, DMA does work. It did, as you can see, and you can simply use this as a case for illustrating the modern convienences of more mature operating systems.