1. It's US$499, not $399.
2. The listed US prices do not include any local sales taxes, the £339 does.
3. Ex VAT, £289 = $542 at current rates -- less than 9% difference.
... and Monte Davidoff, who wrote the floating point arithmetic routines. (Why is that important? Because Gates and Allen "borrowing" Harvard's PDP-10 had DEC BASIC as a model -- but the 10 has hardware floating point. So that was the one part of the project that actually required significant original programming.)
Your search - site:microsoft.com "Monte Davidoff" - did not match any documents.
selling BASIC for Z80 family CPUs
Minor point: 8080; the Z80 had yet to be introduced.
Bill got himself in a lot of trouble by complaining that the homebrew set was freely copying MS-BASIC instead of paying Microsoft for it.
Not nearly enough trouble.
The PDP-10 that Gates used without authorization
(for which he
"dropped out" of Harvard "to spend time with Microsoft"
in the same sense that someone "resigns" from cabinet "to spend time with his family")
was paid for by a DARPA grant
placing work done on it in the public domain.
You could get BASIC if you wanted it.
Here you miss the essential point of Mr Cbelt3's post.
He was not (as Mr Coward tried to clarify) building a machine around an off-the-shelf processor, micro- or otherwise.
Most fully homebrewed machines were one-offs, and typically too small and simple to run BASIC.
And when it comes to microprocessor-based machines, the BASIC that homebrewers (as distinct from users of commercially manufactured machines) used was more likely to be Tom Pitman's than Bill Gates'.
Apple's products tend to be at least twice as costly in Europe
No, they don't.
eMac: $799 vs £467 = $873: 9% difference
iBook: $999 vs £595 = $1110: 11% difference
iMac G5: $1299 vs £785 = $1450: 12% difference
Not too bad, given the higher costs of doing business there.
I'd guess a $500 Mac would sell for around £350.
Note 1. I picked the low-end models because the rumoured new model is at the low end.
Note 2. I took prices from the UK online store because I can read English, and the UK is in the EU so Europeans can buy from there. No offense to my English friends is intended.
Note 3. Your local sales taxes are not Apple's fault.
This keyboard offers real switches and USB in a 'modern' package.
(I've never used one -- I'm satisfied with IBM Ms, Fujitsu KB4700s, and/or Apple Extendeds when away from my Kinesis Contoured -- but they have ALPS switches so they're doubtless fine.)
OS X ls isn't GNU ls, so there isn't any 'info' documentation for it; info just shows the man page.
OS X generally only installs the GNU stuff in cases like make where the GNU embrace-and-extend and all-the-world's-an-i386-linux crowds have make it awkward to do otherwise.
That's why I don't recycle -- somebody has to look out for future generations. We can't predict what they'll need, so it's best we leave all the stuff we don't need in convenient piles for them.
Switching power supplies are dangerous to work on. Enough voltage to break your skin and enough current to kill. Someone who is unsure about just refitting an old connector on a new PSU should definitely not try.
The problem that Pol Pot, Hitler and bin Laden had/have, is that they too subscribed to the opinion that the world consists of black and white, good and evil.
If bin Laden thinks he isn't evil, well, so what? That's only a problem if you think his moral judgement is as good as anyone else's. It isn't, it's terrible; that's what makes him evil.
In each case, the people they killed were, in their opinion, agents of evil.
Well, again: their opinions were wrong.
Not only did the WMDs not exist, the mass graves didn't, either
Of 270 suspected grave sites identified in the last year, 55 have now been examined, revealing, according to the best estimates that The Observer has been able to obtain, around 5,000 bodies.
Only 5000 bodies so far? Oh, well, clearly that's not enough to actually call Saddam evil -- we might hurt his fragile self-esteem.
... some sites have contained hundreds of bodies...
So how many people do you need to have been dumped in one place before you're willing to call it a "mass grave"?
That does not mean there is no evil. It merely means that evil has its practitioners -- Hitler, bin Laden and colleagues, Hussein, Pol Pot among them -- and its apologists, this AC among them, who support evil by devoting their efforts to undermining its opposition.
You can't even peacefully wear a "No Bush" T-Shirt to a political rally now adays without being arrested for trespassing.
Really? Who was arrested for wearing a "No Bush" T-shirt? I can't seem to find any information about it. There appear to be a few people here wearing anti-Bush T-shirts who aren't getting arrested. Maybe they're just lucky.
Indymedia" isn't trying to silence anyone. They're trying to make everyone heard
Bullshit. I read that page on Indymedia last week when it appeared, and Indymedia's admins were deleting comments critical of the posting. (They may now wish they hadn't, since doing so proves they were in control of the content of the site, and approved the publication of the comments calling for harassment and worse.)
The Rainbow was an MS-DOS PC-non-clone; you're thinking of the Professional, which were micro-PDP11s with a unique crippled bus and a menu-driven operating system appropriately called POS.
The military should stay on it's own damn part of the spectrum, and stay the hell OUT of everyone else's.
The military are staying on their own damn part of the spectrum. The keyless remotes are using the military's damn part of the spectrum. Since it is the military's own damn part of the spectrum, the keyless remotes are allowed to stay the hell IN it only on the conditions that they "must not cause any damn interference" to the military, and "must accept any damn interference" from the military.
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1. It's US$499, not $399.
2. The listed US prices do not include any local sales taxes, the £339 does.
3. Ex VAT, £289 = $542 at current rates -- less than 9% difference.
Any USB keyboard will work. I use an ADB keyboard with a USB adapter.
Hmm, the page I see has it:
-------- Apr 1984 The kremvax hoax
It's there:
Apr 1994 Instance of first commercial mass spamming
Indeed. The barcode scanner should have occupied that slot as it occupies most of RFID's market niche in the real world today.
iBook: $999 vs £595 = $1110: 11% difference
iMac G5: $1299 vs £785 = $1450: 12% difference
I'd guess a $500 Mac would sell for around £350.
Your search - site:microsoft.com "Monte Davidoff" - did not match any documents.
Minor point: 8080; the Z80 had yet to be introduced. Not nearly enough trouble. The PDP-10 that Gates used without authorization (for which he "dropped out" of Harvard "to spend time with Microsoft" in the same sense that someone "resigns" from cabinet "to spend time with his family") was paid for by a DARPA grant placing work done on it in the public domain. Here you miss the essential point of Mr Cbelt3's post. He was not (as Mr Coward tried to clarify) building a machine around an off-the-shelf processor, micro- or otherwise. Most fully homebrewed machines were one-offs, and typically too small and simple to run BASIC.And when it comes to microprocessor-based machines, the BASIC that homebrewers (as distinct from users of commercially manufactured machines) used was more likely to be Tom Pitman's than Bill Gates'.
eMac: $799 vs £467 = $873: 9% difference
iBook: $999 vs £595 = $1110: 11% difference
iMac G5: $1299 vs £785 = $1450: 12% difference
Not too bad, given the higher costs of doing business there. I'd guess a $500 Mac would sell for around £350.
Note 1. I picked the low-end models because the rumoured new model is at the low end.
Note 2. I took prices from the UK online store because I can read English, and the UK is in the EU so Europeans can buy from there. No offense to my English friends is intended.
Note 3. Your local sales taxes are not Apple's fault.
Try channels 11 and up. Amateurs only go up to 2.450GHz.
I'm currently using a G4/350 with a PCI Rage128. It's not slow.
(I've never used one -- I'm satisfied with IBM Ms, Fujitsu KB4700s, and/or Apple Extendeds when away from my Kinesis Contoured -- but they have ALPS switches so they're doubtless fine.)
OS X generally only installs the GNU stuff in cases like make where the GNU embrace-and-extend and all-the-world's-an-i386-linux crowds have make it awkward to do otherwise.
More like the progeny of Ted Holden and Robert McElwaine. Once upon a time there were no spammers, but there have always been kooks.
That's why I don't recycle -- somebody has to look out for future generations. We can't predict what they'll need, so it's best we leave all the stuff we don't need in convenient piles for them.
Ideology?
Switching power supplies are dangerous to work on. Enough voltage to break your skin and enough current to kill. Someone who is unsure about just refitting an old connector on a new PSU should definitely not try.
That does not mean there is no evil. It merely means that evil has its practitioners -- Hitler, bin Laden and colleagues, Hussein, Pol Pot among them -- and its apologists, this AC among them, who support evil by devoting their efforts to undermining its opposition.
Slashcode ate my URL! Here it is (modulo the idiot blanks): rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/c04/c04082904_prot est.rm?mode=compact
Bullshit. I read that page on Indymedia last week when it appeared, and Indymedia's admins were deleting comments critical of the posting. (They may now wish they hadn't, since doing so proves they were in control of the content of the site, and approved the publication of the comments calling for harassment and worse.)
The Rainbow was an MS-DOS PC-non-clone; you're thinking of the Professional, which were micro-PDP11s with a unique crippled bus and a menu-driven operating system appropriately called POS.