Somewhere, way back in that dumpster that I use for a brain, I remember reading that the TRS-80's, or at least the I and III, didn't have all their interrupts working - that the wires going to the CPU were only attached at one end, or some support logic was missing, or something. I'd think something like that would tend to prevent something like Minix from working.
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What about those of us who do Web development for a living? If I have an addiction to the Net, am I beyond hope?
Ah, who cares - every new technology seems to bring 'addictions'. Before the Internet, there was actually such thing as TV addiction. Now, it's like they all WANT us to spend six hours a day in front of 15KHz flicker rather than polluting our minds with that danged ol' Internet crap.
Besides, one is not addicted to a technology, one is addicted to what one can DO with the technology. Aside from shade tree mechanics, people aren't 'addicted to cars' no matter how far they drive to get whatever other fixes they need - so why, when someone is addicted to USENET or porn or whatever specific Net-enabled technology, do we say they're addicted to the Net? (The obvious answer is that the people doing the writing on the subject ain't real clear on the technology - it comes from a phone line and appears on a monitor, therefore it must be that Information Superhighway everybody keeps talking about.)
Now, while we're on the subject of addictions, I'm back down to only two 2-liters of Diet Whatever a day ('whatever' meaning whichever dark cola is cheaper or more appealing on a given day - be it Pepsi, Coke, or even Kroger's generic stuff in the 99-cent three-liter bottles), down from 3 or 4 last month (it fluctuates depending on mood and weather). Now that my nervous system is in a glass case at the Smithsonian, I wonder why caffeine - a substance more addictive than heroin - isn't the real focus when all these journalists want to talk about addictions. I guess certain drugs and addictions are just 'acceptable' so long as there is something more heinous one can point at and say 'yeah but at least I don't do that'.
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Somewhere, way back in that dumpster that I use for a brain, I remember reading that the TRS-80's, or at least the I and III, didn't have all their interrupts working - that the wires going to the CPU were only attached at one end, or some support logic was missing, or something. I'd think something like that would tend to prevent something like Minix from working.
What about those of us who do Web development for a living? If I have an addiction to the Net, am I beyond hope?
Ah, who cares - every new technology seems to bring 'addictions'. Before the Internet, there was actually such thing as TV addiction. Now, it's like they all WANT us to spend six hours a day in front of 15KHz flicker rather than polluting our minds with that danged ol' Internet crap.
Besides, one is not addicted to a technology, one is addicted to what one can DO with the technology. Aside from shade tree mechanics, people aren't 'addicted to cars' no matter how far they drive to get whatever other fixes they need - so why, when someone is addicted to USENET or porn or whatever specific Net-enabled technology, do we say they're addicted to the Net? (The obvious answer is that the people doing the writing on the subject ain't real clear on the technology - it comes from a phone line and appears on a monitor, therefore it must be that Information Superhighway everybody keeps talking about.)
Now, while we're on the subject of addictions, I'm back down to only two 2-liters of Diet Whatever a day ('whatever' meaning whichever dark cola is cheaper or more appealing on a given day - be it Pepsi, Coke, or even Kroger's generic stuff in the 99-cent three-liter bottles), down from 3 or 4 last month (it fluctuates depending on mood and weather). Now that my nervous system is in a glass case at the Smithsonian, I wonder why caffeine - a substance more addictive than heroin - isn't the real focus when all these journalists want to talk about addictions. I guess certain drugs and addictions are just 'acceptable' so long as there is something more heinous one can point at and say 'yeah but at least I don't do that'.