Give credit where it's due
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
"maddog" laments yet another instance where GNU/Linux fails to get a mention.
Once upon a time, there was a comedian named Rodney Dangerfield. One of his punch lines was "I don't get no respect!" Compared with GNU/Linux, Rodney Dangerfield was a king!
I am writing this because, once again, a large article in my local newspaper, starting on the front page, talked about a Cray supercomputer that had been purchased by a state university. The article also talked about another cluster of computing systems and compared the speed, energy efficiency, and many other issues between the two systems.
The article even discussed how, for these systems, you did not type in your data one element at a time, that your data usually arrived in huge amounts, was processed for a long period of time, and then was presented to you as a huge number of data points that you could then visualize with another system. The article made absolutely no mention of the operating system.
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