It is a shame: this machine was about the only "PC" that came with a windowing system in 1986, being GEM (Graphical Environment Manager, also found on the Atari ST).
When IBM launched the PC in 1981, I expected it to be an epic fail, because of "too little, too late". We already had the 68000 CPU and the Z8000 was supposed to rock even more, and then IBM tried to launch some hybrid 8/16-bit with a Quick and Dirty Operating System... nah this was a sign of a behemoth loosing its grip on things. The moment I started to understand I was wrong about this and that I had underestimated the combined power of a brand, marketing and dirty tricks, was when Tulip pulled a technical superior CP/M-86 machine from the market to release a less advanced IBM-compatible instead and other well anticipated machines (all those around the Z8000) died before they hit the market.
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Hm, you are confusing ISK with ISK.
Why ascribe the idea's of Konrad Suse to Wolfram?? Calculating space, 1967 (PDF)
Sugar.
In the far future, we will pick a phone from the phone tree, make a call and eat the phone afterward.
We're lucky we have web browsers these days, otherwise people would still want to try to turn their spreadsheet into an operating system.
I second Elite, especially the Archimedes version. Now I'll Ctrl-Tab to Eve Online again.
Since they replaced their training manual with 1984 and their procedures manual with Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Sounds like Brazil.
It is a shame: this machine was about the only "PC" that came with a windowing system in 1986, being GEM (Graphical Environment Manager, also found on the Atari ST).
When IBM launched the PC in 1981, I expected it to be an epic fail, because of "too little, too late". We already had the 68000 CPU and the Z8000 was supposed to rock even more, and then IBM tried to launch some hybrid 8/16-bit with a Quick and Dirty Operating System... nah this was a sign of a behemoth loosing its grip on things. The moment I started to understand I was wrong about this and that I had underestimated the combined power of a brand, marketing and dirty tricks, was when Tulip pulled a technical superior CP/M-86 machine from the market to release a less advanced IBM-compatible instead and other well anticipated machines (all those around the Z8000) died before they hit the market.
Parent is talking about real-life (you know, AFK) taxes on virtual money.
What I would like is "rotate left" and "rotate right" keys above the left and right cursor keys, which I use to strafe left and right.
Or like IB|¥|?
No, that was Seattle Computer Products
Well, the MMO which does not dies will one day be called... "The Matrix".