Despite the DOSBox authors strongly discouraging this (Their party line is DOSBox is for games only!), it runs great. There are plenty of unofficial builds of DOSBox that are tailored for productivity and legacy application use that add hardware I/O (parallel, serial, even a virtual printer). One company that makes USB-to-ISA bridges even had a DOSBox build available to directly access the ISA cards from the emulated environment.
The latest version of Pocket Quicken (2.5) can apparently sync with Quicken 2010. Of course both OSes Pocket Quicken supported are just as obsolete as Windows 98 at this point!
WDC still produces the 65c816 as well. The 14Mhz speed is a mere suggestion though, since that's the fastest WDC can test the chips with their equipment!
When I was in school, if you brought your own calculator into a test, the proctor would only allow it to be used after they performed a memory wipe of the device.
and all of that technology would have been useless in the past week here in the northeast. No electric = nightmare for cashless society. Even the places with electric were having trouble processing credit cards.
The vintage computer guys already do that. 30pin SIMMs are getting expensive. DDR still fetches a good penny too, alot of P4 and Athlon machines still in service.
Many forget that one of Microsoft's hot products in the 80s was actually a piece of hardware called the Softcard. It was a card that allowed Apple II users to run CP/M software on their computer. the card was so popular that it was widely cloned by other companies.
I don't see how this even matters. The last time I was at the airport, they didn't even scan the boarding pass at the security check point. There wasn't even any equipment present to scan it! They just had a person verify the name on your ID matched the boarding pass.
Service Packs also include hotfixes that don't appear on Windows Update. You have to request them from Microsoft if you have that specific issue. One notable hotfix that dogged XP users was the UAA patch that enabled HD Audio sound cards to work. It wasn't available for download from Microsoft, you had to get it from the vendor who made the hardware.... it was later made part of XP SP3.
On that note. How do retail companies that use the iPad as Point-of-Sale devices distribute their software? Can anyone download them, or can you restrict app distribution to certain Apple accounts?
Add to that that the iOS simulator is litterally directly calling the same OS X APIs for an awful lot of the calls in iOS, and you're talking about porting half of OS X to windows and linux!
Apple did port most of the Cocoa libraries to Windows in order to run Safari and iTunes. Years ago Apple planned on releasing Yellowbox for Windows as a standalone run time. So it is certainly possible.
Was that the infamous WebTV for Windows and Wavetop? I remember beta testing it in Windows 98 as I had the one video capture card it supported (the ATI All-in-Wonder). It was bloated and buggy. Basically it never worked and the virtual "TV Data" network adapter was infamous for screwing up the real network adapters in the system. I remember reading in the private beta newsgroups that it was a pile of junk and people were questioning why Microsoft was even bothering to ship it. Microsoft made a very brief push into the interactive TV business when Windows 98 was released and quickly left it to die a quiet death. I think Wavetop imploded quickly thereafter.
Yes, its a joke. We have a ton of pirate radio stations on the FM band here in the NYC metro area. Even when they are interfering with a licensed station, the FCC doesn't seem to care. Apparently they don't want to drive around the ghetto to enforce the law.
For those concerned, I only ran the router on that channel for about 10 minutes as at the time I didn't realize it wasn't permitted. Its back on Channel 6.
Use of channel 14 isn't permitted in the USA. Routers sold here disable it by default, although you can get the option back by flashing 3rd party firmware onto the router. I ran a router on channel 14 for a brief period of time to see if interference was causing connection issues. The problem I ran into is some wireless devices wouldn't work on channel 14 (like ebook readers) since the radio was region locked.
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Don't forget that Windows RT users are forced to use IE, one of the many limitations of the OS.
Despite the DOSBox authors strongly discouraging this (Their party line is DOSBox is for games only!), it runs great. There are plenty of unofficial builds of DOSBox that are tailored for productivity and legacy application use that add hardware I/O (parallel, serial, even a virtual printer). One company that makes USB-to-ISA bridges even had a DOSBox build available to directly access the ISA cards from the emulated environment.
The latest version of Pocket Quicken (2.5) can apparently sync with Quicken 2010. Of course both OSes Pocket Quicken supported are just as obsolete as Windows 98 at this point!
Heck, someone even emulated an Amiga in Javascript! http://janusamigaemulator.net/
WDC still produces the 65c816 as well. The 14Mhz speed is a mere suggestion though, since that's the fastest WDC can test the chips with their equipment!
When I was in school, if you brought your own calculator into a test, the proctor would only allow it to be used after they performed a memory wipe of the device.
WD has an express RMA that has worked well for me over the years. Very easy to do online and you have the option to cross ship the replacement drive.
and all of that technology would have been useless in the past week here in the northeast. No electric = nightmare for cashless society. Even the places with electric were having trouble processing credit cards.
Around here a much cheaper solution is implemented, signs that say "Bridge freezes before road surface".
4MB, 8MB, and 16MB 30pin SIMMs command a price premium. 1MB and lower are still much too common.
The vintage computer guys already do that. 30pin SIMMs are getting expensive. DDR still fetches a good penny too, alot of P4 and Athlon machines still in service.
Its a shame Microsoft decided to drop Aero Glass and its usability enhancements like Aero Peek.
Many forget that one of Microsoft's hot products in the 80s was actually a piece of hardware called the Softcard. It was a card that allowed Apple II users to run CP/M software on their computer. the card was so popular that it was widely cloned by other companies.
I don't see how this even matters. The last time I was at the airport, they didn't even scan the boarding pass at the security check point. There wasn't even any equipment present to scan it! They just had a person verify the name on your ID matched the boarding pass.
Is it a parody or a cover? Parodies are covered by fair use, covers are not.
They can always change their mind. Depends on how much business users force the issue.
Service Packs also include hotfixes that don't appear on Windows Update. You have to request them from Microsoft if you have that specific issue. One notable hotfix that dogged XP users was the UAA patch that enabled HD Audio sound cards to work. It wasn't available for download from Microsoft, you had to get it from the vendor who made the hardware.... it was later made part of XP SP3.
On that note. How do retail companies that use the iPad as Point-of-Sale devices distribute their software? Can anyone download them, or can you restrict app distribution to certain Apple accounts?
Great, now my app "Pocket Black Hole" will be rejected.
Add to that that the iOS simulator is litterally directly calling the same OS X APIs for an awful lot of the calls in iOS, and you're talking about porting half of OS X to windows and linux!
Apple did port most of the Cocoa libraries to Windows in order to run Safari and iTunes. Years ago Apple planned on releasing Yellowbox for Windows as a standalone run time. So it is certainly possible.
Was that the infamous WebTV for Windows and Wavetop? I remember beta testing it in Windows 98 as I had the one video capture card it supported (the ATI All-in-Wonder). It was bloated and buggy. Basically it never worked and the virtual "TV Data" network adapter was infamous for screwing up the real network adapters in the system. I remember reading in the private beta newsgroups that it was a pile of junk and people were questioning why Microsoft was even bothering to ship it. Microsoft made a very brief push into the interactive TV business when Windows 98 was released and quickly left it to die a quiet death. I think Wavetop imploded quickly thereafter.
Yes, its a joke. We have a ton of pirate radio stations on the FM band here in the NYC metro area. Even when they are interfering with a licensed station, the FCC doesn't seem to care. Apparently they don't want to drive around the ghetto to enforce the law.
For those concerned, I only ran the router on that channel for about 10 minutes as at the time I didn't realize it wasn't permitted. Its back on Channel 6.
Use of channel 14 isn't permitted in the USA. Routers sold here disable it by default, although you can get the option back by flashing 3rd party firmware onto the router. I ran a router on channel 14 for a brief period of time to see if interference was causing connection issues. The problem I ran into is some wireless devices wouldn't work on channel 14 (like ebook readers) since the radio was region locked.
Somewhat related but CenturyLink DID buy the old wireline assets that Sprint spun off as Embarq.
A company called NewDotNet tried this about 10 years ago. It installed adware to resolve the then non-existent TLDs they kept a registry for.