Motorola 68K CPUs stopped being competitive around the 486 DX2 came out. The Pentium basically wiped the floor. Windows 3.0 was "good enough" against the cooperative-multitasking MacOS and Windows 95 was the death knell.
Like someone else said if all you wanted was high-res B&W graphics like the Mac had you could have bought yourself a Hercules graphics card. As for audio Adlib and later SoundBlaster became more or less standard. The Mac only had cooperative multi-tasking. MacOS was obsolete when Windows 95 came out. It took them until MacOS X came out to have a decent operating system again.
IMO the biggest mistake Commodore made with the Amiga was not improving the models quickly enough to counter the PC market business cycle and not use their own CPU design. They did own MOS Technology at one point. That would have enabled them the profit margins they enjoyed with the C64.
Macs were not cheap. I remember looking for the price of a Mac back when I bought an A2000. It had the same memory and processor. The screen was bolted on the computer so it was not easy to change it. Plus it was a B&W monitor. I would rather have a color TV like monitor than a high res B&W monitor.
Those Mac specs are rather similar to the A3000 specs BTW... There *was* a time when Commodore was really lagging in terms of hardware solutions vs the Mac and even Atari. That was around the mid-90s. But this is also just before Apple went close to being bankrupt from having too many computer models and too low margins on them. The Amiga's bane and blessing were the custom chips. Because those did not get upgraded quickly enough the computer family got obsoleted. By the time the A1200 with AGA came out it was too late already.
The Pentium processor and Windows 95 basically eliminated the desktop competition. While the Pentium Pro and Windows NT eliminated the RISC workstation market.
I kind of doubt that the SR-71 could not be intercepted. The Russian ABM system or some variants of the S-300 PMU would probably fit the bill. You have to remember they made entire systems to defend against XB-70 Valkyrie bombing attacks including the AA-9 missile system used in the Mig-31. The XB-70 Valkyrie had similar specs in terms of speed and performance compared to the SR-71 IIRC.
Still its before 1996. Besides it is not like there weren't private networks such as CompuServe, GEnie, and AOL predating that. I could argue the patent as described could be used for parts search catalogs and there are systems like that which are pretty much ancient.
LINQ sure. But there were 4GL languages with similar capabilities way back before then. The difference is MS added it to a general purpose programming language.
Fischer-Tropsch not Sabatier reaction. Totally different since the result is diesel rather than methane. Still not cheap. From what I heard the whole project is headed for cancellation since North America is increasing its oil production.
Remember Novel? If they think they can sell Android phones at a lower price than the other players in the consortium, or become the sole vendor, they stand a lot to gain from this. Of course I expect this to be shot down rather quickly... This is not like the Samsung lawsuit. Google is an US company.
Actually you can. I doubt Nortel came up with the concepts of ads in search engines before anyone especially considering 1996 is awfully late in Internet terms.
Well it sells well on supercomputers, servers, routers, smartphones, tablets, wristwatches. About the only place it doesn't sell well is the desktop. Which Linus actually claimed was a goal of his. But then again if that was a goal of his why doesn't he do any code for graphics infrastructure? Hah.
I doubt Google was primarily interested in search patents from Nortel. A telecommunications company. They were most likely more interested in their cellular patents.
Its ads in search. Remember how Steve Jobs went ballistic that Google earned one cent without going through his beloved Apple store/whatever so he created iAds to compete with AdMob? Ads are Google's major source of revenue so by attacking that they are attacking Google's finances directly. Not that I think this patent is worth anything. I was certainly getting ads served to me when I used Altavista and that was before 1997.
I have seen that proposed for use in space applications and even there where they spend zillions on a toilet it isn't used. Fiddly and prone to breakage. Not to mention too expensive even for them. Nope you are better off looking at batteries. Or even better pumped storage. Still such a system is going to be vastly more expensive than just have a bog standard nuclear power system.
Did I mention Google's infamous experience with solar? They found they need to *gosh* clean the panels every year or they kept losing input power. And guess what cleaning very large panel surfaces is not particularly cheap and uses non-insignificant amounts of water.
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AMD has been bankrupt since like forever and I still bought their product.
There are some really cheap Chinese phones with the Mediatek processor. For all I know it could be one of those.
Motorola 68K CPUs stopped being competitive around the 486 DX2 came out. The Pentium basically wiped the floor. Windows 3.0 was "good enough" against the cooperative-multitasking MacOS and Windows 95 was the death knell.
Like someone else said if all you wanted was high-res B&W graphics like the Mac had you could have bought yourself a Hercules graphics card. As for audio Adlib and later SoundBlaster became more or less standard. The Mac only had cooperative multi-tasking. MacOS was obsolete when Windows 95 came out. It took them until MacOS X came out to have a decent operating system again.
We stopped caring about that once the 386 came out.
IMO the biggest mistake Commodore made with the Amiga was not improving the models quickly enough to counter the PC market business cycle and not use their own CPU design. They did own MOS Technology at one point. That would have enabled them the profit margins they enjoyed with the C64.
Macs were not cheap. I remember looking for the price of a Mac back when I bought an A2000. It had the same memory and processor. The screen was bolted on the computer so it was not easy to change it. Plus it was a B&W monitor. I would rather have a color TV like monitor than a high res B&W monitor.
Those Mac specs are rather similar to the A3000 specs BTW... There *was* a time when Commodore was really lagging in terms of hardware solutions vs the Mac and even Atari. That was around the mid-90s. But this is also just before Apple went close to being bankrupt from having too many computer models and too low margins on them. The Amiga's bane and blessing were the custom chips. Because those did not get upgraded quickly enough the computer family got obsoleted. By the time the A1200 with AGA came out it was too late already.
The Pentium processor and Windows 95 basically eliminated the desktop competition. While the Pentium Pro and Windows NT eliminated the RISC workstation market.
I kind of doubt that the SR-71 could not be intercepted. The Russian ABM system or some variants of the S-300 PMU would probably fit the bill. You have to remember they made entire systems to defend against XB-70 Valkyrie bombing attacks including the AA-9 missile system used in the Mig-31. The XB-70 Valkyrie had similar specs in terms of speed and performance compared to the SR-71 IIRC.
Global Hawk also works reasonably well on this role.
Still its before 1996. Besides it is not like there weren't private networks such as CompuServe, GEnie, and AOL predating that. I could argue the patent as described could be used for parts search catalogs and there are systems like that which are pretty much ancient.
LINQ sure. But there were 4GL languages with similar capabilities way back before then. The difference is MS added it to a general purpose programming language.
Would you rather have an OS monopoly or a hardware vendor monopoly? Besides its not like people can't fork Android. In fact Amazon do precisely that.
Fischer-Tropsch not Sabatier reaction. Totally different since the result is diesel rather than methane. Still not cheap. From what I heard the whole project is headed for cancellation since North America is increasing its oil production.
Remember Novel? If they think they can sell Android phones at a lower price than the other players in the consortium, or become the sole vendor, they stand a lot to gain from this. Of course I expect this to be shot down rather quickly... This is not like the Samsung lawsuit. Google is an US company.
Allegedly Lenovo is trying to buy RIM. Lenovo makes Android phones ATM.
Actually you can. I doubt Nortel came up with the concepts of ads in search engines before anyone especially considering 1996 is awfully late in Internet terms.
Well it sells well on supercomputers, servers, routers, smartphones, tablets, wristwatches. About the only place it doesn't sell well is the desktop. Which Linus actually claimed was a goal of his. But then again if that was a goal of his why doesn't he do any code for graphics infrastructure? Hah.
I don't know anyone using F#. SQLServer?! SQL was invented by IBM and SQLServer was based on Sybase source code.
Google "Wright Brothers patent war".
I doubt Google was primarily interested in search patents from Nortel. A telecommunications company. They were most likely more interested in their cellular patents.
Its ads in search. Remember how Steve Jobs went ballistic that Google earned one cent without going through his beloved Apple store/whatever so he created iAds to compete with AdMob? Ads are Google's major source of revenue so by attacking that they are attacking Google's finances directly. Not that I think this patent is worth anything. I was certainly getting ads served to me when I used Altavista and that was before 1997.
I still remember when HappyPuppy was around and actually produced credible reviews.
I go to GSM Arena usually.
I have seen that proposed for use in space applications and even there where they spend zillions on a toilet it isn't used. Fiddly and prone to breakage. Not to mention too expensive even for them. Nope you are better off looking at batteries. Or even better pumped storage. Still such a system is going to be vastly more expensive than just have a bog standard nuclear power system.
Did I mention Google's infamous experience with solar? They found they need to *gosh* clean the panels every year or they kept losing input power. And guess what cleaning very large panel surfaces is not particularly cheap and uses non-insignificant amounts of water.