If it's an AMD 64-bit processor, with the backwards compatability of the x86 instruction set, you can probably make it feel like your 16 bit machine. Just boot MS-DOS 3.3 on it or something.
Being able to run code written for the 8-bit 8080 processor on the latest hardware is a really, really good design choice, and it's good to see Intel isn't going to get away with dropping that legacy.
People have the god-given write to have the grille pattern from their dashbord embossed in the forehead. No mortician has the right to remove that embossing without knowing the wishes of the deceased.
On the matter of helmet laws: I have for a long time been in favor of a waiver on the helmet law if the motorcyclist is a designated organ donor. Young body parts are in short supply, and such a program could do a lot towards helping solve that problem.
The people who I know who've told the police to fuck off always get a weekend in jail. I've been confronted with the same exact situation and because I was polite and respectful (not 'submissive' so much as I treated the police officer like a human being, even though I had specifically been caught doing something illegal) I was just given a warning.
Probably the police should get smarter about these things. The asshole who rants and raves and fights like a libburtardian on crack is probably not the guy they need to catch. They're after terrorists, not crackpots who troll Usenet and online forums about their 'beliefs.' The real terrorist will know enough to be cooperative, polite, and probably not even be written a ticket.
Oh, and I've bought several copies of 2600 magazine with my credit card.
I did worse: I sold my collection of 2600 magazines on eBay.
Haven't started distributing my scan (from a 1960's era photocopy) of the Bell System Journal article that started it all, though. I should throw that PDF up on webspace sometime...
Is my original copy from 1977 of the RSA Paper from MIT a 'valuable collectors item' yet?
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Built in ethernet on a Powerbook 165c? Now I've got something to strive for again.
I didn't sell the 1400 in a period of time where it was that much better a machine than the 165c. The sale was earlier this year. The 165c has more 'classicness' than the 1400. It's important to keep around a classic Macintosh operating environment for reference and to run the old things that won't run on new systems. That 165c fills that need for me pretty well. I can also set up and use one of my SE/30's but the Powerbook is just so much more convenient.
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Actually, my PowerBook 165c doesn't 'lead the industry' but it plods along very, very nicely.
None of my Macs are new enough to run OSX. And it's really getting to the point where nobody even makes available software for OS9.
They're fine machines, though. I run NetBSD on one of my SE/30's. Do you think the 'wizard' who wrote this book can help me get X11 installed on it better? I want a large virtual screen, and a few other tweaks I haven't figured out on it yet. The Tab Window Manager rulez!
All forms of information- music, software, literature - should be free and available to the public. Humans possess an innate desire to understand the world around them. Any attempts to control any form of information goes against our very nature.
What utter nonsense.
It is the nature of small children to be curious about many things. This does not mean that small children should be left alone in a room with an open tube radio chassis and three or four plugged in power tools. Even though restricting children in this ways 'goes against their nature.'
As far as I know, a copyright is designed to protect a specific work of artistic/creative expression.
Ummm, no. Anything you write is copyrighted by default. Your comment that I am replying to is copyrighted. It's also a creative expression, you might note.
Surprisingly that sounds just like the form and function of the new iPod with a (failed) 'replacable battery' retrofit.
Will they sell Microsoft-only batteries for their player? Will you have to ship it back to Redmond to get the new batteries installed?
(will a growth industry of third-party battery vendors rise up, similar to the third-party cooling fan vendors for the Mac Plus, to allow the machine to actually be stable and not overheat??)
XBox is a PC without 10,000 possible hardware combinations, complicating the 'target' game vendors have to code for.
It's smart, damn smart... a great way for Microsoft to leverage their IP base, and one they've done pretty good with thus far. When it hits it's 'Version 3' they will own the gaming market.
Not necessarily a good thing, but be pragmatic and realistic, not a zealot.
NPR are rather greedy in certain ways. And there are offshoots of NPR like 'American Public Radio' which were set up to strip off valuable properties like Garrison Keillor's popular program so they could rake in the loot.
Nope, these are not 'Community' CDs. This was shortly after I'd visited the Mandrake site and noticed how much they were charging to get the no-Community CD set.
I've bought other quasi-legal CDs on eBay, like a CD set of HP-UX, one of AIX, one of IRIX. It's a good place to track down software you'd otherwise have to spend a heap of money for.
Well, in the beginning we all ate grubs and berries from the trees, which were free.
The 'hobby computer' scene ended about the time the TRS-80 came out. The Tandy machines didn't trigger the end, they were just a sign of the times. There were tons of machines yet to hit the scene and be popular with hobbyists, but the TRS-80 had Microsoft BASIC in ROM, just like about any machine from that period late in the scene.
If you're going to talk about the era before when people toggled in bootstrap code to get their 1702-processor machine fully loaded with 4K of RAM (all RAM sockets populated) to start reading the paper tape, you're talking about an era before more than.5% of the populace were involved with computers.
Call that the 'elite period' of Personal Computers. Don't try to harken back to it with nostalgia if you're at all open to regular folks using computers.
It sounds like Apple isn't going to retire the 'Version 10' on their current MacOS version anytime soon. Will they indefinitely release.dot versions? It's not a negative question, nor is it necessarily a bad thing for them to do so.
NetBSD is still at version 1 (1.6.2 is the latest I am running) and Solaris has been at version 2 through all the versions (2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, etc.) for years, even though they call 2.8 Solaris 8.
Just an interesting thing to ponder. There's enough difference between the initial MacOS X release and the current release that they should definitely have different version numbers.
Well, Apple doesn't seem to be scrambling to come out with Mac OS XI. And it's common knowledge that they've had some subtantial upgrades in recent history (big enough to charge people a bunch of money for them, anyway)
Really, they were just copping on the 'mystical X marketing thing.' Which Microsoft did a few years earlier with Active X.
Actually, the only true X is the X Window System.
Accept no substitutes or products that pimp on it's moniker.
Funny thing. I paid for it immediately with PayPal, and it arrived a few days later. But then eBay followed up with a letter telling me I didn't have to follow through on my end (the buyers end) of the deal because the seller's account had been deleted.
Kinda sucked, because I was all ready to give the dude positive feedback for shipping it so fast.
IBM and DEC made money that way, back then, because they had Monopoly shares of their respective markets.
You're talking about the 'hobby computer' scene, which preceded the PC Industry. Visicalc NEVER was available in a baggie. And before Visicalc, the PC market was strictly a hobbyist thing.
Or are you just paraphrasing that distorted history that Perens parroted in 'Revolution OS'?
then having a wider spread use of the software because it's free is a good thing.
You know, you're right. Any sufficently enlighened software company knows that if they slash the price of their product to zero dollars, they can make up for reduced price in increased volume.
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If it's an AMD 64-bit processor, with the backwards compatability of the x86 instruction set, you can probably make it feel like your 16 bit machine. Just boot MS-DOS 3.3 on it or something.
Being able to run code written for the 8-bit 8080 processor on the latest hardware is a really, really good design choice, and it's good to see Intel isn't going to get away with dropping that legacy.
People have the god-given write to have the grille pattern from their dashbord embossed in the forehead. No mortician has the right to remove that embossing without knowing the wishes of the deceased.
On the matter of helmet laws: I have for a long time been in favor of a waiver on the helmet law if the motorcyclist is a designated organ donor. Young body parts are in short supply, and such a program could do a lot towards helping solve that problem.
Aw, comeon. Everybody knows that a bomb detonator is a 555 chip with a really big timing capacitor.
I suppose the cheapos would just use some junk opamp or comparator instead of the 555, but they don't really count!
The people who I know who've told the police to fuck off always get a weekend in jail. I've been confronted with the same exact situation and because I was polite and respectful (not 'submissive' so much as I treated the police officer like a human being, even though I had specifically been caught doing something illegal) I was just given a warning.
Probably the police should get smarter about these things. The asshole who rants and raves and fights like a libburtardian on crack is probably not the guy they need to catch. They're after terrorists, not crackpots who troll Usenet and online forums about their 'beliefs.' The real terrorist will know enough to be cooperative, polite, and probably not even be written a ticket.
Oh, and I've bought several copies of 2600 magazine with my credit card.
I did worse: I sold my collection of 2600 magazines on eBay.
Haven't started distributing my scan (from a 1960's era photocopy) of the Bell System Journal article that started it all, though. I should throw that PDF up on webspace sometime...
Is my original copy from 1977 of the RSA Paper from MIT a 'valuable collectors item' yet?
Built in ethernet on a Powerbook 165c? Now I've got something to strive for again.
I didn't sell the 1400 in a period of time where it was that much better a machine than the 165c. The sale was earlier this year. The 165c has more 'classicness' than the 1400. It's important to keep around a classic Macintosh operating environment for reference and to run the old things that won't run on new systems. That 165c fills that need for me pretty well. I can also set up and use one of my SE/30's but the Powerbook is just so much more convenient.
Actually, my PowerBook 165c doesn't 'lead the industry' but it plods along very, very nicely.
Sold the 1400 on eBay awhile back.
None of my Macs are new enough to run OSX. And it's really getting to the point where nobody even makes available software for OS9.
They're fine machines, though. I run NetBSD on one of my SE/30's. Do you think the 'wizard' who wrote this book can help me get X11 installed on it better? I want a large virtual screen, and a few other tweaks I haven't figured out on it yet. The Tab Window Manager rulez!
'who knows so little'??
This is the guy who taught me the debug sequence to low level format a hard drive with an 8-bit Western Digital hard drive controller card.
He designed and wirewrapped his own floppy drive interface to plug into his TRS-80 Model 1.
He still uses a Model 100 in his darkroom.
He's not 'dim,' just stuck in old ways in a few regards.
All forms of information- music, software, literature - should be free and available to the public. Humans possess an innate desire to understand the world around them. Any attempts to control any form of information goes against our very nature.
What utter nonsense.
It is the nature of small children to be curious about many things. This does not mean that small children should be left alone in a room with an open tube radio chassis and three or four plugged in power tools. Even though restricting children in this ways 'goes against their nature.'
As far as I know, a copyright is designed to protect a specific work of artistic/creative expression.
Ummm, no. Anything you write is copyrighted by default. Your comment that I am replying to is copyrighted. It's also a creative expression, you might note.
Surprisingly that sounds just like the form and function of the new iPod with a (failed) 'replacable battery' retrofit.
Will they sell Microsoft-only batteries for their player? Will you have to ship it back to Redmond to get the new batteries installed?
(will a growth industry of third-party battery vendors rise up, similar to the third-party cooling fan vendors for the Mac Plus, to allow the machine to actually be stable and not overheat??)
A friend of mine who is an old-time PC type sent me a scanned cartoon as a scanned TIFF file.
.AVI movie.
To mock him, I sent it back to him, with a much smaller file size, as a single frame
That's why the RIAA and MPAA sue to protect the music and films.
Oh, wait. We Like Apple on days of the week starting with the letter 'T'.
Sorry.
XBox is a PC without 10,000 possible hardware combinations, complicating the 'target' game vendors have to code for.
It's smart, damn smart... a great way for Microsoft to leverage their IP base, and one they've done pretty good with thus far. When it hits it's 'Version 3' they will own the gaming market.
Not necessarily a good thing, but be pragmatic and realistic, not a zealot.
Microsoft doesn't aim 'high' or 'low.' Microsoft aims wide.
Nobody uses Microsoft products has ever been called elitist. MS isn't into selling to narrow niche markets.
NPR are rather greedy in certain ways. And there are offshoots of NPR like 'American Public Radio' which were set up to strip off valuable properties like Garrison Keillor's popular program so they could rake in the loot.
Nope, these are not 'Community' CDs. This was shortly after I'd visited the Mandrake site and noticed how much they were charging to get the no-Community CD set.
I've bought other quasi-legal CDs on eBay, like a CD set of HP-UX, one of AIX, one of IRIX. It's a good place to track down software you'd otherwise have to spend a heap of money for.
Well, in the beginning we all ate grubs and berries from the trees, which were free.
.5% of the populace were involved with computers.
The 'hobby computer' scene ended about the time the TRS-80 came out. The Tandy machines didn't trigger the end, they were just a sign of the times. There were tons of machines yet to hit the scene and be popular with hobbyists, but the TRS-80 had Microsoft BASIC in ROM, just like about any machine from that period late in the scene.
If you're going to talk about the era before when people toggled in bootstrap code to get their 1702-processor machine fully loaded with 4K of RAM (all RAM sockets populated) to start reading the paper tape, you're talking about an era before more than
Call that the 'elite period' of Personal Computers. Don't try to harken back to it with nostalgia if you're at all open to regular folks using computers.
It sounds like Apple isn't going to retire the 'Version 10' on their current MacOS version anytime soon. Will they indefinitely release .dot versions? It's not a negative question, nor is it necessarily a bad thing for them to do so.
NetBSD is still at version 1 (1.6.2 is the latest I am running) and Solaris has been at version 2 through all the versions (2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, etc.) for years, even though they call 2.8 Solaris 8.
Just an interesting thing to ponder. There's enough difference between the initial MacOS X release and the current release that they should definitely have different version numbers.
Well, Apple doesn't seem to be scrambling to come out with Mac OS XI. And it's common knowledge that they've had some subtantial upgrades in recent history (big enough to charge people a bunch of money for them, anyway)
Really, they were just copping on the 'mystical X marketing thing.' Which Microsoft did a few years earlier with Active X.
Actually, the only true X is the X Window System.
Accept no substitutes or products that pimp on it's moniker.
I got my copy of Mandrake 10.0 on ebay weeks ago.
Funny thing. I paid for it immediately with PayPal, and it arrived a few days later. But then eBay followed up with a letter telling me I didn't have to follow through on my end (the buyers end) of the deal because the seller's account had been deleted.
Kinda sucked, because I was all ready to give the dude positive feedback for shipping it so fast.
It's portable darkness.
My pocket-sized personal cellphone jammer is, I mean.
It's fun to press the button and watch people STFU and drive.
IBM and DEC made money that way, back then, because they had Monopoly shares of their respective markets.
You're talking about the 'hobby computer' scene, which preceded the PC Industry. Visicalc NEVER was available in a baggie. And before Visicalc, the PC market was strictly a hobbyist thing.
Or are you just paraphrasing that distorted history that Perens parroted in 'Revolution OS'?
then having a wider spread use of the software because it's free is a good thing.
You know, you're right. Any sufficently enlighened software company knows that if they slash the price of their product to zero dollars, they can make up for reduced price in increased volume.
Oh... wait....