Archive for August, 2007

Not Cut and Dry, Cut and Paste

August 13, 2007

Assumptions are easy to make.  We do them all the time.  Usually they help to speed up understand and create a kind of common language.  Other times, they lead only to confusion.
The clipboard design is based on one primary assumption.  The core idea is that data is exchanged between programs using a common clipboard.  One [...]

Aggregate Computing

August 3, 2007

Aggregate computing has existed in various forms over the last 50 years.  It usually lives within the realm of the bigger systems and is focused on high power jobs.
IBM built a model around its mainframes that made everything virtual (VM 360) that basically meant that the software had no idea how the hardware was actually [...]