I used to use an XT keyboard. When the AT came out I played with one a little and noted to myself that the keyboard didn't feel as nice.
still, the At keyboard beats heck out of any modern membrane keyboard. and better than my cherry-mx keyboard too, though it also beats heck out of any membrane keyboard.
I used to have some Northgate keyboards, and regret having ever disposed of them.
Even if I WERE tempted to buy an XM radio (my new car is "XM ready", which means I can spend a bundle to purchase the adaptor), which I'm not, the mere presence of people like Howard Stern would be enough to dissuade me.
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Well, others mentioned rain.
I'll bring up the fact that both Seattle and 'Frisco are geologically dangerous places.
I know, people love both places and refuse to leave or consider the danger. And I'm not saying it's dangerous THIS WEEK, but still the dangers are real.
Seattle sits where Mt. Rainier could destroy it in moments with a major eruption (yes, Rainier is still considered to be an active volcano), and San Francisco sits right on top of the San Andreas fault (not to mention thousands of others).
But if that's not a concern for you, I think I'd go for Google were I in your shoes, and willing to move to the left coast. I hear it's a fun place to work, and they've got some really high-level people there.
Burroughs OEM'd the B20 from Convergent Technologies (which called the product "NGEN"), along with their OS, CTOS, which burroughs renamed to BTOS. I worked for Prime Computer in the mid 1980s when they were also OEMing the same machine as an office workstation.
It didn't look as slick as this one, but it was clearly the same idea: You take a CPU module, stack next to it a hard drive module, next to that a floppy drive module, next to that a modem module, and so forth.
I've recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of my30th birthday. I've been programming for about 25 years, and intend to keep going at least 6 more. I tried big companies, i tried small startups. None of them was satisfactory. The big company no longer exists (thanks to hostile takeover attempts and the man known as "the junk bond king" whose name I won't utter). The startups are also too volatile, though for different reasons. Then I stumbled upon a small company that was then 15 years old, have been with the company for 14 years, and as long as it stays in business and doesn't get bought up by a vulture, I plan to stay. (I'm getting too old to go looking for a job anyway).
There's DJ Delorie, of "DJGPP" fame (where the "DJ" is not an abbreviation, there are no periods, it's just, well, "DJ". See www.delorie.com for details.), and there's also a guy (whose original name I can't remember) who legally changed his name to "DO-While Jones" back in the early eighties: http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/
Another was the recent decision to make the POSIX standard freely available on the Internet.
but where are they "freely" available? I've just scored both ieee and open group websites and the best I can find is some PDF documents at prices beginning around $105 and going up. Not what I call freely available.
Reminds me of the time way back in the '80s (or maybe it was the '70s, I can't remember that far back;) when General Motors got into Deep Stuff because they were selling (some) Oldsmobile cars with Chevrolet engines in them. Their argument was that "it's just as good", so what's the problem?
Well, the problem is that customers expected an Oldsmobile to have an Oldsmobile engine. GM had spent decades building up the "Oldsmobile Rocket 98" engine brand, and there was a factory that built Oldsmobile engines. Yet they quietly put something else in some of the cars.
I don't recall what happened in courtrooms, but I do recall a huge publicity stink.
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how can I return to FB when I've never been there?
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But none of the proposed layouts have the F-keys. doesn't anyone other than me think that's a non-feature?
I used to use an XT keyboard. When the AT came out I played with one a little and noted to myself that the keyboard didn't feel as nice.
still, the At keyboard beats heck out of any modern membrane keyboard. and better than my cherry-mx keyboard too, though it also beats heck out of any membrane keyboard.
I used to have some Northgate keyboards, and regret having ever disposed of them.
Sounds like the internal code-name for a new Intel processor chip.
Can you say "The Death of PDF" ???
I've got a 10 Mhz PC/XT clone (Taiwanese) that still works...
Even if I WERE tempted to buy an XM radio (my new car is "XM ready", which means I can spend a bundle to purchase the adaptor), which I'm not, the mere presence of people like Howard Stern would be enough to dissuade me.
Well, others mentioned rain.
I'll bring up the fact that both Seattle and 'Frisco are geologically dangerous places.
I know, people love both places and refuse to leave or consider the danger. And I'm not saying it's dangerous THIS WEEK, but still the dangers are real.
Seattle sits where Mt. Rainier could destroy it in moments with a major eruption (yes, Rainier is still considered to be an active volcano), and San Francisco sits right on top of the San Andreas fault (not to mention thousands of others).
But if that's not a concern for you, I think I'd go for Google were I in your shoes, and willing to move to the left coast. I hear it's a fun place to work, and they've got some really high-level people there.
Burroughs OEM'd the B20 from Convergent Technologies (which called the product "NGEN"), along with their OS, CTOS, which burroughs renamed to BTOS. I worked for Prime Computer in the mid 1980s when they were also OEMing the same machine as an office workstation.
It didn't look as slick as this one, but it was clearly the same idea: You take a CPU module, stack next to it a hard drive module, next to that a floppy drive module, next to that a modem module, and so forth.
I've recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of my30th birthday. I've been programming for about 25 years, and intend to keep going at least 6 more. I tried big companies, i tried small startups. None of them was satisfactory. The big company no longer exists (thanks to hostile takeover attempts and the man known as "the junk bond king" whose name I won't utter). The startups are also too volatile, though for different reasons. Then I stumbled upon a small company that was then 15 years old, have been with the company for 14 years, and as long as it stays in business and doesn't get bought up by a vulture, I plan to stay. (I'm getting too old to go looking for a job anyway).
Two examples:
There's DJ Delorie, of "DJGPP" fame (where the "DJ" is not an abbreviation, there are no periods, it's just, well, "DJ". See www.delorie.com for details.), and there's also a guy (whose original name I can't remember) who legally changed his name to "DO-While Jones" back in the early eighties: http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/
Reminds me of the time way back in the '80s (or maybe it was the '70s, I can't remember that far back ;) when General Motors got into Deep Stuff because they were selling (some) Oldsmobile cars with Chevrolet engines in them. Their argument was that "it's just as good", so what's the problem?
Well, the problem is that customers expected an Oldsmobile to have an Oldsmobile engine. GM had spent decades building up the "Oldsmobile Rocket 98" engine brand, and there was a factory that built Oldsmobile engines. Yet they quietly put something else in some of the cars.
I don't recall what happened in courtrooms, but I do recall a huge publicity stink.