To be fair, the 1985 Amiga wasn't nearly as powerful, nor as capable, as the 1995 Windows PC.
A 1985 Amiga could multitask better than any 1995 Windows PC. That leaves out OS/2, which was much more capable than Windows circa 1995, but hardly anyone ran OS/2, either. OS/2 met the same fate as the Amiga - epic mismanagement. If the Amiga had survived and continued to evolve, adding protected mode and VM, it still would have been far ahead of anything in 1995. Too bad CBM cheaped-out on evolving the hardware to keep up with the times. That's a lesson one would've thought they would've learned from Atari's behaviour during the 8-bit era. Oh well. It's interesting that the same guy is responsible for both great platforms - the Atari 800 series, and the Amiga. RIP Jay Miner!
In an alternate universe, the computing world is dominated by machines powered by the 64-bit evolutionary descendant of the 6502, the 65864, all labeled Atari, CBM died with the 8-bit world because Miner stayed with Atari, few felt the need to go 'x86' because they were overpriced low-tech pieces of crap, and Woz left Apple to join Miner at Atari. Jobs started his own cult and poisoned himself and his followers in 1992 following a meteorite sighting, and Jerry Pournelle still writes for Byte.
Most people who run Linux do so on Kaypro XII machines with Dvorak keyboards (and type in Esperanto).
I don't know about everyone else, but Internet Explorer 5.5 is working pretty well here on my Windows NT 4 machines.
Dude, you should try Windows Millennium - WAY easier on system resources than that hog NT4! Plus, as the name 'Millennium' implies, it's probably Y2K-compliant. Ish.
We don't need to give the kooks anything else to gum on.
It's not like you have to GIVE them something to gum on in the first place - they gum on nothing whatsoever. That's kind of the point. They have faith they're gumming on something.:)
We're not like that because it is cold in Norway and it would be costly and hard to make the move.
Just please don't claim we have WMDs before invading to bring us the Democracy you think we deserve... we know we have em.
Lutefisk _is_ considered a biological weapon outside of Norway, you know.
So, would you like to be the 52nd state (after Canada, of course - they have dibs), or a territory like Puerto Rico? If you choose to become a state, you get free flags. If you choose to be a territory, you get less hassle, but no flags. A difficult choice, I know, so take your time.
Don't worry, both major political parties will do the same thing to correct this injustice! And both will blame the other party, while doing nothing about it.
Did you even glance at TFA (I know, nobody RTFA), Commodore and Amiga are both addressed in it as the first company name dealt with.
I was talking specifically about the Amiga, which TFA specifically did not address (the author talks about being confused about the current state of the Amiga, which is ridiculous - it's dead).
Where did you get the idea that WVGA is common for cellphones? Only some of the most recent top end phones have WVGA.
Sorry, instead of 'common for cellphones', I should have said 'commonly found on cellphones'. Few other devices use that resolution, except MIDs and the like.
And if you lived in Asia, that resolution would seem pretty normal for a smartphone.:(
Depending on your perspective, I'd put Apple on the list. As soon as Jobs' marketing ego took over the company from Woz' technical brilliance (see a pattern here?), this company went all screwy. This happened with the original Mac (a pattern which Jobs would repeat). Let's replace our monumentally successful, paradigm-shifting platform (Apple 2) with something that costs 2x as much, and doesn't even have color (or available software base)! Yeah, awesome idea. Oh, and seal up the box, we don't want users installing any pesky expansion cards or more memory.
Jobs later went on to make NeXT, where he doubled (or more) (again) the price of the machine, and again started with a monochrome display (not sure about the expandability of NeXT cubes). This dude is a bit weird.
I much prefer Apple from their 8-bit days. The//GS was delayed, then crippled by marketing decisions. Very sad.
And another from the Golden Age of computing: Commodore, who, with the Amiga, had by far the biggest technological lead of any company in computing history in its time (except for IBM from a previous time (mainframe era), and then a later time (OS/2)), and blew it due to legendary incompetence. I mean, Atari really blew it with the ST line, but nowhere NEAR as badly as Commodore with Amiga.
Still, Atari blew it pretty badly with their 8-bit line before them, but they didn't have as big a tech lead with their 8-bit line as Commodore with the Amiga. I never knew until much later that the same guy who was mainly responsible for the brilliance of the Atari 800 was also the mastermind behind the Amiga (Jay Miner, RIP). *sigh* What could've been...
Does anybody keep a mental table of what these obscure abbreviations actually mean anymore? I can remember that VGA is 640x480 and SVGA is 800x600
The ones that start with 'W' are merely the wide versions of the originals, so generally you take the width of the next higher-up resolution and use that with the height of the one you're dealing with.
VGA = 640x480 WVGA = 800x480 (common for cellphones, but due to panel sizes, they're also coming out in 854x480) SVGA = 800x600 WSVGA = 1024x600 (usually seen in netbooks) XGA = 1024x768
That ought to put the Emacs vs. VI debate to rest once and for all.
Much like the other major religious war on this planet (Christianity vs Islam), there will only be peace when the two sides kill each other off. I look forward to that day.
Just imagine what'll happen when they circumnavigate Titan and figure out it's actually round!
So is a pizza. That doesn't mean it isn't also flat. Titan could be the same way. They always warn you about falling off the edge - but what if something comes FROM off the edge?! Didn't think of THAT, DID you?!
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Programmer: "I want to take some time to refactor some of the older code."
MBA: "What's the ROI on that?"
Programmer: "DIAF."
To be fair, the 1985 Amiga wasn't nearly as powerful, nor as capable, as the 1995 Windows PC.
A 1985 Amiga could multitask better than any 1995 Windows PC. That leaves out OS/2, which was much more capable than Windows circa 1995, but hardly anyone ran OS/2, either. OS/2 met the same fate as the Amiga - epic mismanagement. If the Amiga had survived and continued to evolve, adding protected mode and VM, it still would have been far ahead of anything in 1995. Too bad CBM cheaped-out on evolving the hardware to keep up with the times. That's a lesson one would've thought they would've learned from Atari's behaviour during the 8-bit era. Oh well. It's interesting that the same guy is responsible for both great platforms - the Atari 800 series, and the Amiga. RIP Jay Miner!
In an alternate universe, the computing world is dominated by machines powered by the 64-bit evolutionary descendant of the 6502, the 65864, all labeled Atari, CBM died with the 8-bit world because Miner stayed with Atari, few felt the need to go 'x86' because they were overpriced low-tech pieces of crap, and Woz left Apple to join Miner at Atari. Jobs started his own cult and poisoned himself and his followers in 1992 following a meteorite sighting, and Jerry Pournelle still writes for Byte.
Most people who run Linux do so on Kaypro XII machines with Dvorak keyboards (and type in Esperanto).
I don't know about everyone else, but Internet Explorer 5.5 is working pretty well here on my Windows NT 4 machines.
Dude, you should try Windows Millennium - WAY easier on system resources than that hog NT4! Plus, as the name 'Millennium' implies, it's probably Y2K-compliant. Ish.
We don't need to give the kooks anything else to gum on.
It's not like you have to GIVE them something to gum on in the first place - they gum on nothing whatsoever. That's kind of the point. They have faith they're gumming on something. :)
We're not like that because it is cold in Norway and it would be costly and hard to make the move.
Just please don't claim we have WMDs before invading to bring us the Democracy you think we deserve... we know we have em.
Lutefisk _is_ considered a biological weapon outside of Norway, you know.
So, would you like to be the 52nd state (after Canada, of course - they have dibs), or a territory like Puerto Rico? If you choose to become a state, you get free flags. If you choose to be a territory, you get less hassle, but no flags. A difficult choice, I know, so take your time.
Don't worry, both major political parties will do the same thing to correct this injustice! And both will blame the other party, while doing nothing about it.
Did you even glance at TFA (I know, nobody RTFA), Commodore and Amiga are both addressed in it as the first company name dealt with.
I was talking specifically about the Amiga, which TFA specifically did not address (the author talks about being confused about the current state of the Amiga, which is ridiculous - it's dead).
Where did you get the idea that WVGA is common for cellphones? Only some of the most recent top end phones have WVGA.
Sorry, instead of 'common for cellphones', I should have said 'commonly found on cellphones'. Few other devices use that resolution, except MIDs and the like.
And if you lived in Asia, that resolution would seem pretty normal for a smartphone. :(
Jeez, Woz, get a better handle.
If I was the real Woz, my user number would probably be 6502. And I would be a better dancer. :)
Depending on your perspective, I'd put Apple on the list. As soon as Jobs' marketing ego took over the company from Woz' technical brilliance (see a pattern here?), this company went all screwy. This happened with the original Mac (a pattern which Jobs would repeat). Let's replace our monumentally successful, paradigm-shifting platform (Apple 2) with something that costs 2x as much, and doesn't even have color (or available software base)! Yeah, awesome idea. Oh, and seal up the box, we don't want users installing any pesky expansion cards or more memory.
Jobs later went on to make NeXT, where he doubled (or more) (again) the price of the machine, and again started with a monochrome display (not sure about the expandability of NeXT cubes). This dude is a bit weird.
I much prefer Apple from their 8-bit days. The //GS was delayed, then crippled by marketing decisions. Very sad.
Atari, Sierra On-Line
And another from the Golden Age of computing: Commodore, who, with the Amiga, had by far the biggest technological lead of any company in computing history in its time (except for IBM from a previous time (mainframe era), and then a later time (OS/2)), and blew it due to legendary incompetence. I mean, Atari really blew it with the ST line, but nowhere NEAR as badly as Commodore with Amiga.
Still, Atari blew it pretty badly with their 8-bit line before them, but they didn't have as big a tech lead with their 8-bit line as Commodore with the Amiga. I never knew until much later that the same guy who was mainly responsible for the brilliance of the Atari 800 was also the mastermind behind the Amiga (Jay Miner, RIP). *sigh* What could've been...
And then OS/2! *sniff* Alas, poor WPS...
Indeed. I remember back when if you didn't have a Voodoo card then you don't really have a 3d accelerator.
Number 9, Matrox, etc. The glory years, where we actually had a choice of more than 2 vendors. *sigh*
Does anybody keep a mental table of what these obscure abbreviations actually mean anymore? I can remember that VGA is 640x480 and SVGA is 800x600
The ones that start with 'W' are merely the wide versions of the originals, so generally you take the width of the next higher-up resolution and use that with the height of the one you're dealing with.
VGA = 640x480
WVGA = 800x480 (common for cellphones, but due to panel sizes, they're also coming out in 854x480)
SVGA = 800x600
WSVGA = 1024x600 (usually seen in netbooks)
XGA = 1024x768
except it is a fake, unless you dont see how it registers button presses before guys finget gets close to the screen
Dude, it's a SMARTphone - it knows what buttons he's gonna press - even before HE does! Sheesh, get with the times, it's all ball-bearings, now!
In the day, Radio Shack was where you went to get your electronic supplies... resistors, transistors, LEDs, capacitors, etc.
I've a NIB CoCo3 and a NIB Tandy Model 102 here, waiting to be played with. Don't forget the days of 8-bit glory, kids!
Hey, I am from Mississippi and I resemble that remark! I used to say half joking that I lived in a 3rd world county.
Mississippi a third world country? Don't put on airs, son - I've been there.
That ought to put the Emacs vs. VI debate to rest once and for all.
Much like the other major religious war on this planet (Christianity vs Islam), there will only be peace when the two sides kill each other off. I look forward to that day.
COPY CON, bitches!
You'd think there'd be an emacs keystroke combo to check for duplicate words in a block of text.
Yes, I can do that, but my point is that you have to position yourself in a certain way to use it properly.
The same holds true for a book. Or a cellphone. Or your dick. Hopefully you can figure all these out.
I'm still hoping for a GUI version of FList from my VM/CMS days. *sigh*
Mission, South Dakota. If you haven't heard of it, look it up on Wikipedia or something. It's nowhere.
That is among the many punishments you get for living in South Dakota.
I am dissapointed this did not come from the pizza anology guy...
Hush up, you. You got what you paid for.
Wait wait wait, so you're saying that Titan could have a cheese stuffed crust too?
It's _possible_. There's only one way to be sure - someone's going to have to go out there. Any volunteers?
Just imagine what'll happen when they circumnavigate Titan and figure out it's actually round!
So is a pizza. That doesn't mean it isn't also flat. Titan could be the same way. They always warn you about falling off the edge - but what if something comes FROM off the edge?! Didn't think of THAT, DID you?!
That's right...I went there.
What the fuck is it that you american's live in such state of paranoia?
Pedantic-Man(tm) is pretty sure it is the lack of apostrophes that causes it.