Actually, the commodore 64 was VERY widespread, as was the sinclair spectrum and a number of other systems, most big games were ported to multiple systems so the users had a choice, and porting games was much harder in those days.. nowadays with API's like opengl and such, porting games and other apps should be very easy
Why is that not a good idea? It works It nodoubt runs very quickly on modern hardware (if you have any) It runs adequately on older hardware The staff are nodoubt very familiar with it It's not vulnerable to the problems in newer word processing software, such as macro viruses
New software is expensive, add in the cost of new hardware and new operating systems to run it, plus the cost of retraining the users to use the new software, plus the inevitable hiccups of moving to something new.. and what will this new software offer you that the old didn't ? not much i should imagine.. since the old software is already doing everything that's required, even using free software would only eliminate the cost of the software, most free word processing applications are as (if not more) resource hogging as commercial counterparts and would still require retraining. It would likely just do exactly the same as the older software, but do it slower, and with more interruptions due to interface differences and security problems.
But this then forces people onto windows against their will, but then again.. how many people choose to use windows without being forced in some way or other?
Or trojanise the ATM software to log pin numbers and card details so that you can create clone cards and steal cash over a long period of time until the scam is caught... You could potentially steal far more money this way and it would be much harder to track down.
And another of the nice things about the old cash machines, the ones sitting there with green on black text only terminals, is that theyre never sitting theyre crashed or rebooting, these machines have been around for years and i've never seen one crash, these newer windows based ones are fairly recent and yet i've seen countless crashes.
From the person behind the counter? Thats a good one, and how do you propose that people who work 9-5:30 every day get to a bank? It`s simply not practical, we dont get enough lunch break as it is.. and i lost count of the amount of times i have wasted my entire lunch break standing waiting in the bank. Perhaps if banks would open usefull hours, say evenings and weekends, like supermarkets do.. it would be more practical to go to the counter, however the banks wont do that.. since theyre trying to force people into using the machines.
A decently setup network shouldn`t need to completely go down for a few minutes like that, it should remain up.. afterall, the purpose of using machines is that they run 24/7 without interruption.. Aside from this, an ATM machine shouldn't have just stolen your card like that, if the network is unavailable it should refuse to accept a card or just spit it straight back out... It often takes well over a week to get a new card, losing a card for something stupid like this is a MAJOR inconvenience, some of us actually work during the daytime, banks dont open in the evenings and banks are so overcrowded at lunchtimes that often you can stand in a queue for your entire lunch break and never get to see anyone at the bank, or have any lunch
Why not pull the 68000 out and replace it with a 68010 chip, which is pin compatible, faster at the same clockrate and able to run at higher clock rates anyway... I always thought the megadrive 68000 cpu was clocked at 12mhz anyway, it was the Amiga 500/600 series machines which used 7mhz 68000, and one cheap upgrade path was to pull the 12mhz cpu out of a megadrive
That's a software problem, it`s perfectly possible to run a unix based os on an x86 laptop, linux, freebsd, solaris etc... The problems she had with worms and such can be directly attributed to windows, and would be cured by using a different os on an x86 laptop.
Well, if you want 100% reliability, dont buy lowend chips from intel or amd.. go for highend kit from sun, hp, sgi or ibm... you pay a premium but you get far more reliable hardware and a support contract to get it replaced if anything does happen.
Way too far in this case? if you had any idea of the amount of illegal shit hosted at this particular hosting provider you wouldnt say that... just ask anyone on efnet
These representatives are often just representing their own interests, and are often voted in because they are just the best of a bad self-serving lot.
Actually the CDTV was the first Amiga with inbuilt cdrom, it was basically an A500 with 1mb ram and inbuilt cdrom (standard A500s had 512kb ram) the CDTV never sold very well tho, even worse than the CD32
The Amiga used to auto detect disk insertion too, if you had no other bootable media, the system would display an insert disk prompt, and begin booting immediately once you inserted a disk (or other bootable media) If you were running the AmigaOS and you inserted a disk, then it`s icon(s) would be loaded and displayed along with the disklabel, very similar to how the mac does it, the behavior is the same for cdroms and other removeable media, except for 5" floppies which had no diskchange sensor, and were very rarely used on the amiga anyway, for these an explicit "diskchange" command existed.
disk-validator (and this virus) used to cause amigaos 3.x atleast to crash... these versions had the disk validator in ram.. disk-validator wasnt used to repair the disk, it just "validated" it.. an unvalidated disk is one where a write couldnt be completed, ie it was ejected or the system crashed during a write, and the system couldn't complete the write and mark the disk as valid.. an unvalidated disk would only be mounted read only
Microsoft didn`t invent the idea of autostart, such things have been around for years... Most computers and consoles will boot when you insert some bootable media, most video players will begin playing when you insert a tape, a lot of dvd players and some cd players do the same.. AmigaOS and MacOS always auto displayed icons when you inserted media.. windows takes it a step furthur and executes code, which is a bad idea really.. the mac/amiga way of displaying the icons so you can do what you like is better and safer.. aside from the risks of a virus propogating this way, if you insert a cd while your doing something and the program which starts consumes too much ram/cpu it can hinder what your already running.
The extra registers have nothing to do with the fact the system is 64bit, the extra registers are an attempt to get around some major design flaws in the x86 architecture.. problems which other architectures simply don't have, thus you won't see such a performance increase on other architectures like sparc and mips (which btw went 64bit years ago)
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How do you configure this on an IRIX machine? is it only available on the high end machines ?
And they should have brought him one, people that stupid shouldn't be allowed to breed!
Actually, the commodore 64 was VERY widespread, as was the sinclair spectrum and a number of other systems, most big games were ported to multiple systems so the users had a choice, and porting games was much harder in those days.. nowadays with API's like opengl and such, porting games and other apps should be very easy
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isnt that a gui for latex? It`s certainly a very good program
Why is that not a good idea?
It works
It nodoubt runs very quickly on modern hardware (if you have any)
It runs adequately on older hardware
The staff are nodoubt very familiar with it
It's not vulnerable to the problems in newer word processing software, such as macro viruses
New software is expensive, add in the cost of new hardware and new operating systems to run it, plus the cost of retraining the users to use the new software, plus the inevitable hiccups of moving to something new.. and what will this new software offer you that the old didn't ? not much i should imagine.. since the old software is already doing everything that's required, even using free software would only eliminate the cost of the software, most free word processing applications are as (if not more) resource hogging as commercial counterparts and would still require retraining.
It would likely just do exactly the same as the older software, but do it slower, and with more interruptions due to interface differences and security problems.
But this then forces people onto windows against their will, but then again.. how many people choose to use windows without being forced in some way or other?
Or trojanise the ATM software to log pin numbers and card details so that you can create clone cards and steal cash over a long period of time until the scam is caught... You could potentially steal far more money this way and it would be much harder to track down.
And another of the nice things about the old cash machines, the ones sitting there with green on black text only terminals, is that theyre never sitting theyre crashed or rebooting, these machines have been around for years and i've never seen one crash, these newer windows based ones are fairly recent and yet i've seen countless crashes.
From the person behind the counter? Thats a good one, and how do you propose that people who work 9-5:30 every day get to a bank? It`s simply not practical, we dont get enough lunch break as it is.. and i lost count of the amount of times i have wasted my entire lunch break standing waiting in the bank.
Perhaps if banks would open usefull hours, say evenings and weekends, like supermarkets do.. it would be more practical to go to the counter, however the banks wont do that.. since theyre trying to force people into using the machines.
A decently setup network shouldn`t need to completely go down for a few minutes like that, it should remain up.. afterall, the purpose of using machines is that they run 24/7 without interruption..
Aside from this, an ATM machine shouldn't have just stolen your card like that, if the network is unavailable it should refuse to accept a card or just spit it straight back out...
It often takes well over a week to get a new card, losing a card for something stupid like this is a MAJOR inconvenience, some of us actually work during the daytime, banks dont open in the evenings and banks are so overcrowded at lunchtimes that often you can stand in a queue for your entire lunch break and never get to see anyone at the bank, or have any lunch
So how do you mark a service as being hidden from the gui tool ?
Because europeans would simply pirate their software
Why not pull the 68000 out and replace it with a 68010 chip, which is pin compatible, faster at the same clockrate and able to run at higher clock rates anyway...
I always thought the megadrive 68000 cpu was clocked at 12mhz anyway, it was the Amiga 500/600 series machines which used 7mhz 68000, and one cheap upgrade path was to pull the 12mhz cpu out of a megadrive
That's a software problem, it`s perfectly possible to run a unix based os on an x86 laptop, linux, freebsd, solaris etc...
The problems she had with worms and such can be directly attributed to windows, and would be cured by using a different os on an x86 laptop.
I believe IRIX has had this for ages too
Well, if you want 100% reliability, dont buy lowend chips from intel or amd.. go for highend kit from sun, hp, sgi or ibm... you pay a premium but you get far more reliable hardware and a support contract to get it replaced if anything does happen.
Way too far in this case? if you had any idea of the amount of illegal shit hosted at this particular hosting provider you wouldnt say that... just ask anyone on efnet
I always hated how windows labels html files as "microsoft html document" as if they invented the format
These representatives are often just representing their own interests, and are often voted in because they are just the best of a bad self-serving lot.
Actually the CDTV was the first Amiga with inbuilt cdrom, it was basically an A500 with 1mb ram and inbuilt cdrom (standard A500s had 512kb ram)
the CDTV never sold very well tho, even worse than the CD32
The Amiga used to auto detect disk insertion too, if you had no other bootable media, the system would display an insert disk prompt, and begin booting immediately once you inserted a disk (or other bootable media) If you were running the AmigaOS and you inserted a disk, then it`s icon(s) would be loaded and displayed along with the disklabel, very similar to how the mac does it, the behavior is the same for cdroms and other removeable media, except for 5" floppies which had no diskchange sensor, and were very rarely used on the amiga anyway, for these an explicit "diskchange" command existed.
Solaris has had VOLD for quite some time to, does the same thing
disk-validator (and this virus) used to cause amigaos 3.x atleast to crash...
these versions had the disk validator in ram..
disk-validator wasnt used to repair the disk, it just "validated" it.. an unvalidated disk is one where a write couldnt be completed, ie it was ejected or the system crashed during a write, and the system couldn't complete the write and mark the disk as valid..
an unvalidated disk would only be mounted read only
Microsoft didn`t invent the idea of autostart, such things have been around for years...
Most computers and consoles will boot when you insert some bootable media, most video players will begin playing when you insert a tape, a lot of dvd players and some cd players do the same..
AmigaOS and MacOS always auto displayed icons when you inserted media.. windows takes it a step furthur and executes code, which is a bad idea really.. the mac/amiga way of displaying the icons so you can do what you like is better and safer.. aside from the risks of a virus propogating this way, if you insert a cd while your doing something and the program which starts consumes too much ram/cpu it can hinder what your already running.
The extra registers have nothing to do with the fact the system is 64bit, the extra registers are an attempt to get around some major design flaws in the x86 architecture.. problems which other architectures simply don't have, thus you won't see such a performance increase on other architectures like sparc and mips (which btw went 64bit years ago)