I have a system with a 5.25" floppy drive from 1988 (21 years). It's the last remaining piece of my first PC. I kept it around because, for years, it allowed me to maintain the fiction that I was "upgrading" the original computer.
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Been there, done that.
We don't have "Ministries" in the US. We have "Departments".
Or make left turns.
Can I use ill-tempered mutant Chilean sea bass instead?
It's Jersey. I'm sure there are a ton of other things wrong with it as well.
They sure have patent on breaking other people's SW interacting with their SW
Yeah, but it has to have expired by now... "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run".
Still, the patent will expire in a couple of years
2015 (or 2018) is *FOREVER* in "internet time".
Sounds like a patent on MVC or Doc/View architecture.
I have a system with a 5.25" floppy drive from 1988 (21 years). It's the last remaining piece of my first PC. I kept it around because, for years, it allowed me to maintain the fiction that I was "upgrading" the original computer.
<VOICE type="Chandler Bing">
Could this branding be any more lame?
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*whoosh*
I don't know... use something like.... a TV set?
The first time I read it
Link Please??????
Yes, DRM is evil, bad and wrong. But stopping it from going off when it shouldn't has to be good, right?
No. The more "false positives" that Joe User gets, the more he'll complain.
Remember Lotus 1-2-3 2.01 and copy protection!
Don't forget the hookers! In fact, forget the dice...
Bloody splitters!
We're the People's Front of Slashdot, not the Slashdot People's Front!!!
I remember hearing that story back in the '80s. I always thought it was apocryphal.
Hey, hot mamma! Wanna kill all humans?
Moderated: +1 Heavy Metal reference
No... just classic Corvettes that get driven over cliffs.
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Peter Griffin, is that you?
[that episode was on AS last nite]
you're correct that VLB was made for video acceleration
However, other manufacturers made other types of VLB adapters.
Then, oh the joy of AMD 486 overclocked Intel clones that drove the VGA straight of the CPU pins - what was that called again? -
VESA Local Bus (VLB). They had it on Intel DX/2s as well. Adaptec (and others) made SCSI controllers for the VLB also.