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Old Operating Systems Never Die
Harry writes "Haiku, an open-source re-creation of legendary 1990s operating system BeOS, was released in alpha form this week. The news made me happy and led me to check in on the status of other once-prominent OSes — CP/M, OS/2, AmigaOS, and more. Remarkably, none of them are truly defunct: In one form or another, they or their descendants are still available, being used by real people to accomplish useful tasks. Has there ever been a major OS that simply went away, period?"
Apple hires hit men to track down users and kill them
Was it THAT good, or is it doubly obsolete? ;)
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Noone is using WIndows to do some real job.
Who's Noone, and what's he/she using Windows for? Sounds fairly self-defeating, really; I mean, no one important is using it anymore, so Noone might need a new set of talents soon...
s/this afternoon//
I hate printers.
GLaDOS went away when I threw that b%$^& into the fire.
Are you kidding? TOS is still used through-out the computing industry. In fact its normally pretty big news when people make TOS modifications as they are behind some of the biggest pieces of software out there in the world.
What people don't know is that the team behind TOS shifted its emphasis towards specialising in very hard to understand and complicated programmes that were designed to confuse those who read them, like Perl but with longer words. This new coding approach was then adopted by Lawyers everywhere which is why everyone now clearly states they have a "TOS" for their website/software/whatever.
Over beer in 1993 an Atari developer was asked by someone what TOS stood for and jokingly said "Terms of Service". This name stuck, particularly with the lawyers and hence TOS now dominates as the underlying operating system for legal documents.
What most people don't realise is that you can run "Chess Master 2000" on the Supreme Court.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
I've been officially dead before, twice actually. So that's no guarantee it's not around.
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I actually have a friend of mine that's still running Windows Me and - get this - accesses the Internet via an AOL dial-up account. When I asked him why he doesn't just get DSL or some other form of broadband, he said, "If I do that, I'll get viruses faster!" I really couldn't argue with that.
It's not all bad, though. When he asked me to install AOL on his computer (under protest, mind you) and get him set up, I set up AOL to use pulse-dialing (think old-school rotary phone) when making its calls. It turns out that, once set, you can't unset that, so, every time he tries to get on to the Internet at home, he has to sit there and wait... "TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK... TICK-TICK-TICK... TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK..." and so on for about 45 seconds or so. I told him it was my way of getting even.
If only the same could be said of the users of said medical computers...
I don't get it? Why would a guy named "Dick Pick" be so sensitive?
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Your friend is adorable.
I don't think anyone willingly uses Windows ME for any useful task anymore.
Were they ever able to? ;)
I had a firewall machine with windows ME that had an uptime of over 3 months at one point. I then took it down for fear that breaking the laws of probability like that would cause the universe to fold in on itself.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.