Heh, funnily enough that's exactly what Windows 7 does. If you install it to an empty drive, it'll create two partitions - one small one (a couple hundred megs?) for the boot loader, and the rest for Windows itself.
Mainly it was having only four GP registers, except most of the GP registers also have special uses; also that x87 is purely stack-based instead of sticking a few extra registers in.
I'd have been happier with either a saner "real" architecture, such as the Motorola 68K, or a "toy" architecture like the MOS 6502 or a PIC.
I always turned the computer off when I was done with it, back then. That's what we were trained to do with the old 8-bit micros I had as a kid, since there wasn't much point to leaving them on & idle.
My uptimes in Win 95 were always limited to several hours at most, on purpose.
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When XP came out it was common for low-end OEM machines to have 128MB of RAM, which was only enough to boot it, not to run applications well.
It's just that XP was the premier OS for longer, so those old computers died off or got upgraded.
Me, I plan on eating a shotgun if I ever get diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I've seen what it did to my grandfather, and a quick death is preferable to slowly fading away, utterly dependent on other people even to wipe my butt.
It's the timing, coming just after the release of the classified documents and his unwillingness to shut up. Naturally there's suspicion that it's a set-up.
Vista had an all-new driver architecture, and (so I'm told) the vendors didn't have enough time between getting driver SDKs and Vista's release to write good stable drivers.
It's been almost four years since then, so drivers have had plenty of time to mature.
My understanding is that MS added incompatible Windows-specific features to their Java implementation, which was the/real/ issue. Anything written in MS-Java had a chance of working only on Windows as a result, which defeated the purpose.
I still enjoy playing Age of Mythology now and again. I don't bother playing online, though, since I'm not very good and will only wind up getting beaten.
Couldn't tell you what kind of router that was - the student unplugged it before our networking guy tracked down which port it was on.
As to the other thing, it was more a crime of omission. One supposes that our Cisco kit will default to passing any packet, including DHCP, and our guys didn't know how to block that.
*shrug* Most likely they'd never considered a "hostile" DHCP server on the network (lots of other things could have killed the network, so they thought), and had never seen what that looks like.
OTOH we can't pay very well, so we can't get top-notch talent.
Our entire network was brought down a few years ago when a student plugged a consumer router into his dorm room's port. Said router provided DHCP, and having two conflicting DHCP servers on the network terminally confused everything that didn't use static IPs.
Took our networking guys hours to trace that one down.
Most of VBox is open source. The only difference between the "commercial" and "free" versions is that the former has USB support and can be an RDP server for headless use. If Oracle put the commercial version behind a paywall, you'd just need to wait for someone to compile the free version for Windows & Mac and distribute them.
Its emulated USB is pretty slow, so you wouldn't lose that much.
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Heh, funnily enough that's exactly what Windows 7 does. If you install it to an empty drive, it'll create two partitions - one small one (a couple hundred megs?) for the boot loader, and the rest for Windows itself.
Mainly it was having only four GP registers, except most of the GP registers also have special uses; also that x87 is purely stack-based instead of sticking a few extra registers in.
I'd have been happier with either a saner "real" architecture, such as the Motorola 68K, or a "toy" architecture like the MOS 6502 or a PIC.
It's traditional, at least in the US, to call a semi-automatic pistol an automatic. Does confuse laypeople sometimes, though.
I don't think people generally refer to their semi-automatic rifles as automatics, just pistols.
Lucky you. Ten years ago I was taught 8086 assembly with an MS-DOS assembler from the mid-late '80s, as an introductory course.
I had a deep sense of wrongness about the language.
I'd be scared to death of what would come out of a Constitutional convention these days.
I always turned the computer off when I was done with it, back then. That's what we were trained to do with the old 8-bit micros I had as a kid, since there wasn't much point to leaving them on & idle.
My uptimes in Win 95 were always limited to several hours at most, on purpose.
When XP came out it was common for low-end OEM machines to have 128MB of RAM, which was only enough to boot it, not to run applications well.
It's just that XP was the premier OS for longer, so those old computers died off or got upgraded.
I can only suggest suicide.
Me, I plan on eating a shotgun if I ever get diagnosed with Alzheimer's. I've seen what it did to my grandfather, and a quick death is preferable to slowly fading away, utterly dependent on other people even to wipe my butt.
Can you walk? It's not broken, then.
So waive the bill if there's a legitimate emergency, and make this fact plain.
It's the timing, coming just after the release of the classified documents and his unwillingness to shut up. Naturally there's suspicion that it's a set-up.
Vista had an all-new driver architecture, and (so I'm told) the vendors didn't have enough time between getting driver SDKs and Vista's release to write good stable drivers.
It's been almost four years since then, so drivers have had plenty of time to mature.
My understanding is that MS added incompatible Windows-specific features to their Java implementation, which was the /real/ issue. Anything written in MS-Java had a chance of working only on Windows as a result, which defeated the purpose.
I still enjoy playing Age of Mythology now and again. I don't bother playing online, though, since I'm not very good and will only wind up getting beaten.
I turn up as either a US football player (he may have retired by now) or a gay porn star.
Pretty good cover, and my name is somewhat common anyway.
Hey, do you think I can get an article posted if I post a link to a paranoid rant about Obama's birth certificate?
Couldn't tell you what kind of router that was - the student unplugged it before our networking guy tracked down which port it was on.
As to the other thing, it was more a crime of omission. One supposes that our Cisco kit will default to passing any packet, including DHCP, and our guys didn't know how to block that.
*shrug* Most likely they'd never considered a "hostile" DHCP server on the network (lots of other things could have killed the network, so they thought), and had never seen what that looks like.
OTOH we can't pay very well, so we can't get top-notch talent.
Our entire network was brought down a few years ago when a student plugged a consumer router into his dorm room's port. Said router provided DHCP, and having two conflicting DHCP servers on the network terminally confused everything that didn't use static IPs.
Took our networking guys hours to trace that one down.
That was wonderful.
No - Vader force-strangles Jar-Jar for two hours. That's the entire movie.
You say "original" as though there were any other movies.
Most of VBox is open source. The only difference between the "commercial" and "free" versions is that the former has USB support and can be an RDP server for headless use. If Oracle put the commercial version behind a paywall, you'd just need to wait for someone to compile the free version for Windows & Mac and distribute them.
Its emulated USB is pretty slow, so you wouldn't lose that much.
And? You think the Soviets wouldn't have inherited it from the Tsarists, eh?
IGTT 1/10.