Seriously though, Quicken is one of the oldest and most mature consumer software products available. It will be a long time before anything comparable is available on Linux.
you can implement preemtive multitasking on any CPU that has a way of generating regular interrupts
Memory Protection is nice too. Especially when all existing applications(DOS programs) assumed they could write to any memory location they pleased.
The 286 had a protected mode but programs had to be rewritten to run in it. The 386 made multitasking feasible because each legacy DOS app thought it had complete control over the processor.
If computers cost $15, then Microsoft will sell an OS for them that costs $2.
By now, we should all realize that MS is extremely responsive to changes in the consumer computing market.
Black holes does not indicate infinite density. They indicate a density high enough that photons can't escape.
According to Hawking in A Brief History of Time, all black holes achieve infinite density in an extremely small amount of time.
Why couldn't it optionally enable features specific to a detected chip, starting with 386 as default?
Each generation of Intel processors has included complete set of bugs:
Listing of x86 bugs
These bugs can do anything from giving a spreadsheet incorrect results to allowing user-level programs to do things they shouldn't. The Linux Kernel fixes these hardware bugs with software, but the kernel must know which chip is present in order to apply the correct fixes.
Would you rather have the kernel tell you on startup that something is wrong or randomly crash later?
The bill won't be nearly as high as the article sugests. One provider of networked services will make it's product free, paid for by ads. Most of the others will follow. Consumers might feel better paying for a few services such as virus scanning, but most will be enticed by wonderful free as they were with IE and webmail.
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Exactly how is this "news for nerds"?
\\:^)
Seriously though, Quicken is one of the oldest and most mature consumer software products available. It will be a long time before anything comparable is available on Linux.
They'll learn soon enough.
The gamers might have loved DOS, but programmers knew about the evil workarounds it required just to get more than 640k of memory.
you can implement preemtive multitasking on any CPU that has a way of generating regular interrupts
Memory Protection is nice too. Especially when all existing applications(DOS programs) assumed they could write to any memory location they pleased.
The 286 had a protected mode but programs had to be rewritten to run in it. The 386 made multitasking feasible because each legacy DOS app thought it had complete control over the processor.
If computers cost $15, then Microsoft will sell an OS for them that costs $2. By now, we should all realize that MS is extremely responsive to changes in the consumer computing market.
Black holes does not indicate infinite density. They indicate a density high enough that photons can't escape. According to Hawking in A Brief History of Time, all black holes achieve infinite density in an extremely small amount of time.
Any idiot can come up with a calendar that makes more sense than the one we use now.
If the world was willing/able to switch to a new system, it certainly would _not_ be to a system as complex as Flansburg's.
13 months!?!?! The superstitious would never go outside. \\:^)
Why couldn't it optionally enable features specific to a detected chip, starting with 386 as default?
Each generation of Intel processors has included complete set of bugs: Listing of x86 bugs
These bugs can do anything from giving a spreadsheet incorrect results to allowing user-level programs to do things they shouldn't. The Linux Kernel fixes these hardware bugs with software, but the kernel must know which chip is present in order to apply the correct fixes.
Would you rather have the kernel tell you on startup that something is wrong or randomly crash later?
The bill won't be nearly as high as the article sugests. One provider of networked services will make it's product free, paid for by ads. Most of the others will follow. Consumers might feel better paying for a few services such as virus scanning, but most will be enticed by wonderful free as they were with IE and webmail.