Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 19:29 UTC
Jeff Atwood explains why Vista uses so much memory. "You have to stop thinking of system memory as a resource and start thinking of it as a a cache. Just like the level 1 and level 2 cache on your CPU, system memory is yet another type of high-speed cache that sits between your computer and the disk drive. And the most important rule of cache design is that empty cache memory is wasted cache memory. Empty cache isn't doing you any good. It's expensive, high-speed memory sucking down power for zero benefit. The primary mission in the life of every cache is to populate itself as quickly as possible with the data that's most likely to be needed - and to consistently deliver a high 'hit rate' of needed data retrieved from the cache."
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What many of us forget is Microsoft Research sponsors and works with many of the Universities that are working on these advanced technologies that go in to Linux. Linux isn't just made up of hobbiest hackers any more, they get much of their code base from companies like IBM, Novell, and research Universities. Many of which companies like Novell, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, all support.
So just because Microsoft couldn't logically fit it in to Windows XP doesn't mean they shouldn't put it in their newest OS. And I don't even think Linux had it when Windows XP first came out because they were still dealing with the 2.4 kernel.
So don't act like Linux is doing all the innovation, because the innovation is actually coming from the Universities and Linux is a volatile OS because of its openness so it is the logical place to introduce new technologies.