Yes, but my point is that there are other architectures out there and many of them already have a free/open *x clone running on them - why depend on Intel hardware or M$ software?
Why doesn't someone *propose*, actually plan and try to implement and market a free/open solution? I'm sure someone out here on/. has some kind of resources and just a touch of entrepreneurialship, that it could be done. Doesn't take a lot. The trick is to convince people that "Our Linux method" is better than "Macroshaft's Losedoze method" for any number of reasons (price, performance, ease of use, versatility, compatibility,...). I think it's possible. It might not be as feasible because Gates is Mr. Monopoly (and I'm not talking about OS monopolies here, but about pure raw dinero), but it's possible, theoretically speaking.
Okay, this isn't entirely on-topic, but I think the OS of choice might better be OS/2 Warp (already used at ATMs in Tops supermarkets, at least - I saw one of them being booted up) than Windows. Linux would be even better (Linux r0x0r).
Sounds like how Mimet was defeated in Sailor Moon S. She used some device to transfer herself into the big-screen TVs in this hall, and then her rival Telluru went and yanked the plug on her. (I only watch the Japanese version)
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I agree. In fact, I would venture to say that 75% white on black, or 75% green on black, or 75% brown on black are the best colors for the screen to have.
Black on white gives me a migraine.
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??? Apple themselves supports the porting of XFree86 (!) to OSX...
X is pathological *g*. From what I heard, it's good at what it does, but it wasn't meant to be a GUI for lusers, and as a result, it's not really user-friendly. Now die-hard techies should have no problem with it, but they're the type who'd have maximized bash windows or emacs up full-screen all the time. *g*
[OS X; common] The quartered-circle busy indicator on Mac OS X. It is analogous
to the Microsoft Windows hourglass, but OS X 10.0's legendary slowness under the
Aqua toolkit makes it rather more evocative. See Death X of.
Aha! Here's an idea someone should've thought of years ago *g* - if you can play Infocom games and surf the Web in emacs, why can't someone clone vi in emacs LISP? LMAO
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I thought FreeBSD could handle Linux drivers. Oh wait...
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Yes, but my point is that there are other architectures out there and many of them already have a free/open *x clone running on them - why depend on Intel hardware or M$ software?
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w00t, you got it.
But why use x86 anyway? What about Sparc or PPC? Or 68060? I say Anything But Wintel! *g*
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They said 2K scanlines right? I'm betting 2560x2048 24fps. (24fps is standard for movies)
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Care to join me in assembling a text office suite for CP/M-86? *g*
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NewWord 3.0 for CP/M-86. Nice word processor to run on a two-floppy PC *g*
Why doesn't someone *propose*, actually plan and try to implement and market a free/open solution? I'm sure someone out here on /. has some kind of resources and just a touch of entrepreneurialship, that it could be done. Doesn't take a lot. The trick is to convince people that "Our Linux method" is better than "Macroshaft's Losedoze method" for any number of reasons (price, performance, ease of use, versatility, compatibility, ...). I think it's possible. It might not be as feasible because Gates is Mr. Monopoly (and I'm not talking about OS monopolies here, but about pure raw dinero), but it's possible, theoretically speaking.
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Okay, this isn't entirely on-topic, but I think the OS of choice might better be OS/2 Warp (already used at ATMs in Tops supermarkets, at least - I saw one of them being booted up) than Windows. Linux would be even better (Linux r0x0r).
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Mmmm, CP/M 6.0...
Try this freemail site which is ZZN with my other uid plastered on it. *g*
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Sounds like how Mimet was defeated in Sailor Moon S. She used some device to transfer herself into the big-screen TVs in this hall, and then her rival Telluru went and yanked the plug on her. (I only watch the Japanese version)
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John Lennon.
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Nah, it wasn't GPL'd. I can look up the license on my own computer. You could use extracts of the code in a program. Quake was GPL'd though ;)
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Rest assured the original PC ROM BIOS was pretty small:
32K - Cassette BASIC 1.00 (1.10 on XT)
8K - ROM BIOS
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Two words: DOUBLE JEOPARDY
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Read the Constitution.
I agree. In fact, I would venture to say that 75% white on black, or 75% green on black, or 75% brown on black are the best colors for the screen to have.
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Black on white gives me a migraine.
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??? Apple themselves supports the porting of XFree86 (!) to OSX...
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My next machine will be a BSD box.
Hmm, what about running Midnight Commander on MacOS X?
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X is pathological *g*. From what I heard, it's good at what it does, but it wasn't meant to be a GUI for lusers, and as a result, it's not really user-friendly. Now die-hard techies should have no problem with it, but they're the type who'd have maximized bash windows or emacs up full-screen all the time. *g*
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Spinning Pizza of Death
[OS X; common] The quartered-circle busy indicator on Mac OS X. It is analogous to the Microsoft Windows hourglass, but OS X 10.0's legendary slowness under the Aqua toolkit makes it rather more evocative. See Death X of.
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Aha! Here's an idea someone should've thought of years ago *g* - if you can play Infocom games and surf the Web in emacs, why can't someone clone vi in emacs LISP? LMAO
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No, I'm not kidding.
I'd rather see jzip integrated *g*
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Mu, hen da na. I also have trouble pronouncing "L" and I too have Asperger's.
Must be something in the water.
But when I say "Lindows" it sounds a lot more like "Windows" than it should...:\
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I don't know, but the PC version of GEM (Atari licensed GEM from DRI) had a trashcan and that got Digital Research sued...
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Pair of scissors.
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The Apple/Kyrka key.
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IIRC, ClarisWorks 4 supported some form of the Spinning Pizza too, didn't it? :\
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