In all fairness, the basics of AmigaDOS and the windowing environment were in ROM. An AmigaOS system could function without the workbench floppy becayse the kernel ran from a ROM. In the original Amiga 1000, before kickstart was moved to a ROM chip, you had to boot from TWO floppy disks (talk about bloat!!)
AmigaOS did have printer drivers.. stored in sys:/devs/printers
You were correct on the other points, although I would argue that the 8 bit sound was a hardware limitation, not an OS limitation.
But by version 3, AmigaOS was not tied to any particular hardware set, and could install from just a few floppies. Unbloated but functional OS's are possible.
I was thinking of picking up some bounties and trying to help get this OS to a stable version, but I noticed there hadn't been an update of the weekly snapshot for some time. The previous snapshot crashed too much for even command line based development, and BeOS wouldn't boot on my hardware.
Anyone able to recommend a free stable devel/test environment that will install/boot under vmware on modern hardware?
This is nothing like a military draft. In a military draft, you exchange your military service for citizenship. Your facebook TOS (which I view as a contract) declares that you give them permission to use your personal information forever in exchange for allowing you to play scrabulous.
It might be a really crappy deal.. but it's a deal. I think that half a million dollars is a ridiculous price for an automobile, but once I drive it off the lot, that argument isn't likely to hold up in court.
I do find it curious that this generation honestly thinks that it is the duty of all corporate entities to serve them without compensation. Facebook tells you exactly what you're exchanging when you sign up. They want the right to use any information you provide for all of time. They say so up-front.
Would it be nice for them to sacrifice their income and delete the records that they have negotiated for en masse?
When you hand over the info to Facebook, you agree to let them have it. Why on earth would they be expected to delete it?
I agree that it seems unusual, and that maybe it's an unanticipated side-effect of giving your info to a social networking site that your data may persist forever, but I really don't think they're doing anything immoral.
I realize what your saying. Not all cell phone calls are the mafia moving coke, not all internet connections are hackers robbing Paypal, and not all torrents are kids downloading illegal mp3s.
It doesn't matter. The proposed requirement for getting cut off from the net is suspicion... not guilt.
You ISP can prove that you communicated with a bank using SSL. That's enough information to find you guilty of "suspicion of conducting financial transactions". SSL does not help in any way.
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In all fairness, the basics of AmigaDOS and the windowing environment were in ROM. An AmigaOS system could function without the workbench floppy becayse the kernel ran from a ROM. In the original Amiga 1000, before kickstart was moved to a ROM chip, you had to boot from TWO floppy disks (talk about bloat!!)
AmigaOS did have printer drivers.. stored in sys:/devs/printers
You were correct on the other points, although I would argue that the 8 bit sound was a hardware limitation, not an OS limitation.
But by version 3, AmigaOS was not tied to any particular hardware set, and could install from just a few floppies. Unbloated but functional OS's are possible.
This is where Doctor House welcomes you all to the beginning of his thought process.
I was thinking of picking up some bounties and trying to help get this OS to a stable version, but I noticed there hadn't been an update of the weekly snapshot for some time. The previous snapshot crashed too much for even command line based development, and BeOS wouldn't boot on my hardware.
Anyone able to recommend a free stable devel/test environment that will install/boot under vmware on modern hardware?
This is nothing like a military draft. In a military draft, you exchange your military service for citizenship. Your facebook TOS (which I view as a contract) declares that you give them permission to use your personal information forever in exchange for allowing you to play scrabulous.
It might be a really crappy deal.. but it's a deal. I think that half a million dollars is a ridiculous price for an automobile, but once I drive it off the lot, that argument isn't likely to hold up in court.
I do find it curious that this generation honestly thinks that it is the duty of all corporate entities to serve them without compensation. Facebook tells you exactly what you're exchanging when you sign up. They want the right to use any information you provide for all of time. They say so up-front.
Would it be nice for them to sacrifice their income and delete the records that they have negotiated for en masse?
Yes. It sure would.
When you hand over the info to Facebook, you agree to let them have it. Why on earth would they be expected to delete it?
I agree that it seems unusual, and that maybe it's an unanticipated side-effect of giving your info to a social networking site that your data may persist forever, but I really don't think they're doing anything immoral.
I realize what your saying. Not all cell phone calls are the mafia moving coke, not all internet connections are hackers robbing Paypal, and not all torrents are kids downloading illegal mp3s. It doesn't matter. The proposed requirement for getting cut off from the net is suspicion... not guilt.
You ISP can prove that you communicated with a bank using SSL. That's enough information to find you guilty of "suspicion of conducting financial transactions". SSL does not help in any way.