Of course it was. But it was not called like that. Until roughly 1990 all computers where sold with the software in source. Heck if you wrote a piece of software for a company, you usually always would ship it in source code, or at least add the source code. Kind of pointless in a certain sense when you program in assembler, as you can not port that easy to a new platform, but: most low level programming (and that went into the late 1960s) usually always involved to write a custom VM. A VM that had instructions fitting the business requirements. Those instructions would have been interpreted by a small assembler program, which was easy to port. Think about SWEET16 e.g.
There is no computer related topic that is to technically for me...
I program them...
Again, old information, but it still applies today. No it does not. There is no difference at all between a CD that I put into a server and install an OS or into a laptop or desktop. And that is completely unrelated to Linux, Mac OS, HP US, AIX, Solaris or what ever... it is the exact same code running on a desktop or a server. Perhaps you mix that up with a mainframe or micro computer? Mac OS X had a special server distribution up till OS X 10.6. But that only changed the amount of software that was installed (e.g. Kerberus). The kernel and everything else is exactly the same.
You can run iOS or Android as a server OS... no fucking difference to the "hand held device" version.
There never really was any.
The other two links make no sense either, but your link frenzy clearly shows: you have no idea what OS is... hence you believe that servers and modern desktops run different kinds of OSes, which they don't.
You seem to mix up the several companies called ARM.
The first ARM was Acorn Risc Machines. Nothing to do with the later "Advanced Risc Machines Holding" or Ltd. Except well, obviously sprang out of the first ARM and had Apple as a partner.
My first ARM processors, never had anything to do with Apple...
A USB mouse works exactly the same like a serial mouse. It just sends +/-X and +/-Y text and MWU/MWD text
And so does the GPS module, it simply sends "053.122N/002.45E" via the serial USB port.
Since Windows 10 can't do that then therefore Windows 10 is not a "decent" OS. Of course windows 10 is no decent OS... some people argue that Win NT was one, or that XP was not so bad... As far as I can tell there never was a decent Windows, but NT and 95/98 was at least useable.
There hardly is any "cosmic ray" damage outside of the solar system. But feel free to make an guesstimation.
(Yes, cosmic rays are something completely different than radiation from the sun... but they are rare and hardly hit a microbe more than once in their "lifetime")
Unless you are trying to claim that bacteria will be able to survive 40,000 years in the vacuum and cosmic radiation between now and then. You don't know much about the topic.
The bacteria don't move there as bacteria, but as dried out spores. As we already found billion years old really living bacteria inside of rocks on earth, I have no doubt that space faring spores/dried out bacteria can survive 40,000 in a vacuum. Why would they not?
The opinion of a guy who does not really know the various names of taxes (hint: a company/corporation does not pay "income tax") is most likely not very trusted in the merits of his opinions.
Suppose the US loses a million jobs as a result of the trade war. Now imagine saying to those million people who are out of work, "It's OK because China lost two million jobs. We won." Now further imagine China gets to decide exactly in which Congressional districts those one million jobs will be lost -- because for practical purposes they do. But you do know that this is utter nonsense, or don't you?
A american worker who loses his job is soon: homeless, poor, no longer a member of the society. A Chinese worker still has free housing, free education for his kids, free health care and a basic income to pay for his cloth and food. And on top of that he can always go home to his family and simply live of the land.
How many american jobless have a relative who has a farm? A friend who lets them live for free? A government that puts the kids in school regardless?
Why did the US win out over the Soviet Union [if we follow your logic]? Because the elected leaders in the SU, Gorbatschow and later Jelzin changed the system. In 1991 the army made a coup to dethrone Gorbatschow, mass protests made the coup fail.
The US did not win anything, nothing to see here.
Claiming the US won the cold war is just idiotic, considering that we are again in a cold war because the "democratic reforms" in the SU are on the level of the "democracy" in the US around 1800.
Putin is the new Stalin, just behind a fake democracy (and Trump is in no way better). US and SU even wage war in the same country... business as usual, I guess.
Chinas economy is not centrally planned since over 25 years. It is a capitalist economy, where only the important targets, like housing, schools, health care are "semi central planned".
Let's suppose it's true, as you claim, that China will suffer greater damage in a trade war measured in dollars; that's a secondary point. People don't know much about China. That is the main "problem". Chinese this, Chinese that. Most is simply nonsense.
Who is building infrastructure in Africa? Rails, Schools, Hospitals? China is. Which country has the most savings in "foreign" currency? And actually a positive government budget since nearly half a century? China.
America going into a "trade war" is the most ridiculous thing that happened after WW2... good luck. You will need it.
Guess what it is how we defeated the Soviets and as china grows it is how we will defeated them too. China is probably the most Capitalist country on the world, followed directly by Russia.
You have no clue what you are talking about because you are not grasping that "economic system" and "political system" are two more or less orthogonal concepts.
Hint: you can have a regulated free market, capitalism, multi party political system and health insurance If you think only predator capitalism, retarded two party system, no health insurance is the real thing, you are mistaken.
Get together with other markets that face a similar problem. The EU for example. The EU has no similar problem, or do you mean the tariffs the US want to put on european steel and aluminium?
The EU does not import much from China... And actually it was mostly germany and partly sweden (IIRC) that put the Chinese (and indonesian) steel plant into place. We just sold them our old plants. They came here, dismantled them and put numbers on each piece and rebuild them in their country.
Italy was also involved, that started in the 1980s. European steel is 95% recycling steel, I doubt there is a single plant left in Germany that imports raw ore and cooks its own fresh steel.
The problem with the US is always the same: predator capitalism. Not willing to pay a wage a man can feed his family from. Looking at the bottom line and thinking: "hey! It brings more money next 2 years if we lay off all workers and sell the plant!"
And when one says something I said above, he gets defamed as "socialist" or "communist" while he simply points out that company owners in the US have no moral, and the society is at the verge of collapse since decades.
Sure they do. And how exactly do you address the "CPU problem" then, or the OS? A front-end running inside of a browser is CPU and OS agnostic. How much RAM you use is hardly under your control... unless you are experienced and use tricks.
They are only radioactive at places where they can collect enough potassium... simple as that. So: the general idea that all bananas would be radioactive is just nonsense... considering the absurd low percentage of radioactive potassium anyway. Following your idea everything is radioactive.
Yeah, I guess in german it makes more sense as looking at an empty shelf and asking a clerk "Habt Ihr kein Brot mehr?" (You have no bread anymore?) is a kind of idiom. Obviously not very smart when you look at a empty shelf in a bakery.
In Germany you can not buy ammo at all without a license. Sure, you can smuggle it from some eastern countries into Germany or Switzerland. However I doubt that you can make so much money with it that people take that risk.
(Also, close that porn window, your boss just locked his screen and he's coming over to talk to you. You're welcome.) That is not porn! That is my grandma you insensitive clod!
The US has always had lots of guns in civilian hands. It's one of the reasons Japan never invaded in WW2. Congratulations, you made it into the club "Dumbest comment ever", welcome.
Thats a myth. Weapon ownership is more or less the same ratio in USA and Switzerland. In Switzerland members of the militia have an assault rife at home, but since 2007 no ammunition.
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Of course it was. But it was not called like that.
Until roughly 1990 all computers where sold with the software in source.
Heck if you wrote a piece of software for a company, you usually always would ship it in source code, or at least add the source code. Kind of pointless in a certain sense when you program in assembler, as you can not port that easy to a new platform, but: most low level programming (and that went into the late 1960s) usually always involved to write a custom VM. A VM that had instructions fitting the business requirements. Those instructions would have been interpreted by a small assembler program, which was easy to port. Think about SWEET16 e.g.
Erm,
are you in a google frenzy?
The first link is for an intel 386 ... seriously?
There is no computer related topic that is to technically for me ...
I program them ...
Again, old information, but it still applies today. ... it is the exact same code running on a desktop or a server. Perhaps you mix that up with a mainframe or micro computer?
No it does not. There is no difference at all between a CD that I put into a server and install an OS or into a laptop or desktop. And that is completely unrelated to Linux, Mac OS, HP US, AIX, Solaris or what ever
Mac OS X had a special server distribution up till OS X 10.6. But that only changed the amount of software that was installed (e.g. Kerberus). The kernel and everything else is exactly the same.
You can run iOS or Android as a server OS ... no fucking difference to the "hand held device" version.
There never really was any.
The other two links make no sense either, but your link frenzy clearly shows: you have no idea what OS is ... hence you believe that servers and modern desktops run different kinds of OSes, which they don't.
You seem to mix up the several companies called ARM.
The first ARM was Acorn Risc Machines. Nothing to do with the later "Advanced Risc Machines Holding" or Ltd. Except well, obviously sprang out of the first ARM and had Apple as a partner.
My first ARM processors, never had anything to do with Apple ...
A USB mouse works exactly the same like a serial mouse.
It just sends +/-X and +/-Y text and MWU/MWD text
And so does the GPS module, it simply sends "053.122N/002.45E" via the serial USB port.
Since Windows 10 can't do that then therefore Windows 10 is not a "decent" OS. ... some people argue that Win NT was one, or that XP was not so bad ... As far as I can tell there never was a decent Windows, but NT and 95/98 was at least useable.
Of course windows 10 is no decent OS
There hardly is any "cosmic ray" damage outside of the solar system.
But feel free to make an guesstimation.
(Yes, cosmic rays are something completely different than radiation from the sun ... but they are rare and hardly hit a microbe more than once in their "lifetime")
The file manager on Mac OS was "Finder" and still is on Mac OS X and on macOS. ...
No idea what you are talking about
Carbon is a GUI library, not a file manager, same for Cocoa (seeing your other post).
Unless you are trying to claim that bacteria will be able to survive 40,000 years in the vacuum and cosmic radiation between now and then.
You don't know much about the topic.
The bacteria don't move there as bacteria, but as dried out spores.
As we already found billion years old really living bacteria inside of rocks on earth, I have no doubt that space faring spores/dried out bacteria can survive 40,000 in a vacuum. Why would they not?
The opinion of a guy who does not really know the various names of taxes (hint: a company/corporation does not pay "income tax") is most likely not very trusted in the merits of his opinions.
Suppose the US loses a million jobs as a result of the trade war. Now imagine saying to those million people who are out of work, "It's OK because China lost two million jobs. We won." Now further imagine China gets to decide exactly in which Congressional districts those one million jobs will be lost -- because for practical purposes they do.
But you do know that this is utter nonsense, or don't you?
A american worker who loses his job is soon: homeless, poor, no longer a member of the society.
A Chinese worker still has free housing, free education for his kids, free health care and a basic income to pay for his cloth and food. And on top of that he can always go home to his family and simply live of the land.
How many american jobless have a relative who has a farm? A friend who lets them live for free? A government that puts the kids in school regardless?
Why did the US win out over the Soviet Union [if we follow your logic]?
Because the elected leaders in the SU, Gorbatschow and later Jelzin changed the system.
In 1991 the army made a coup to dethrone Gorbatschow, mass protests made the coup fail.
The US did not win anything, nothing to see here.
Claiming the US won the cold war is just idiotic, considering that we are again in a cold war because the "democratic reforms" in the SU are on the level of the "democracy" in the US around 1800.
Putin is the new Stalin, just behind a fake democracy (and Trump is in no way better). US and SU even wage war in the same country ... business as usual, I guess.
Chinas economy is not centrally planned since over 25 years.
It is a capitalist economy, where only the important targets, like housing, schools, health care are "semi central planned".
Let's suppose it's true, as you claim, that China will suffer greater damage in a trade war measured in dollars; that's a secondary point.
People don't know much about China.
That is the main "problem". Chinese this, Chinese that. Most is simply nonsense.
Who is building infrastructure in Africa? Rails, Schools, Hospitals? China is.
Which country has the most savings in "foreign" currency? And actually a positive government budget since nearly half a century? China.
America going into a "trade war" is the most ridiculous thing that happened after WW2 ... good luck. You will need it.
But there are quotas that forbid member nations from producing more than X units of all sorts of products. ...
Har har har har
There is inbuilt protectionism for French agriculture and German manufacturing for example.
That is complete nonsense.
Guess what it is how we defeated the Soviets and as china grows it is how we will defeated them too.
China is probably the most Capitalist country on the world, followed directly by Russia.
You have no clue what you are talking about because you are not grasping that "economic system" and "political system" are two more or less orthogonal concepts.
Hint: you can have a regulated free market, capitalism, multi party political system and health insurance
If you think only predator capitalism, retarded two party system, no health insurance is the real thing, you are mistaken.
Get together with other markets that face a similar problem. The EU for example.
The EU has no similar problem, or do you mean the tariffs the US want to put on european steel and aluminium?
The EU does not import much from China ...
And actually it was mostly germany and partly sweden (IIRC) that put the Chinese (and indonesian) steel plant into place. We just sold them our old plants. They came here, dismantled them and put numbers on each piece and rebuild them in their country.
Italy was also involved, that started in the 1980s. European steel is 95% recycling steel, I doubt there is a single plant left in Germany that imports raw ore and cooks its own fresh steel.
The problem with the US is always the same: predator capitalism. Not willing to pay a wage a man can feed his family from. Looking at the bottom line and thinking: "hey! It brings more money next 2 years if we lay off all workers and sell the plant!"
And when one says something I said above, he gets defamed as "socialist" or "communist" while he simply points out that company owners in the US have no moral, and the society is at the verge of collapse since decades.
Well,
why don't you simply admit that you have no clue about computing?
That is all wrong ... sorry.
Sure they do. ... unless you are experienced and use tricks.
And how exactly do you address the "CPU problem" then, or the OS?
A front-end running inside of a browser is CPU and OS agnostic.
How much RAM you use is hardly under your control
Oh, interesting.
So I'm poorly informed? By what metric?
They are only radioactive at places where they can collect enough potassium ... simple as that. ... considering the absurd low percentage of radioactive potassium anyway.
So: the general idea that all bananas would be radioactive is just nonsense
Following your idea everything is radioactive.
Yeah, I guess in german it makes more sense as looking at an empty shelf and asking a clerk "Habt Ihr kein Brot mehr?" (You have no bread anymore?) is a kind of idiom. Obviously not very smart when you look at a empty shelf in a bakery.
For an assault rifle, yes it is.
In Germany you can not buy ammo at all without a license. Sure, you can smuggle it from some eastern countries into Germany or Switzerland. However I doubt that you can make so much money with it that people take that risk.
For facebook groups, yes.
For individuals I don't think so.
(Also, close that porn window, your boss just locked his screen and he's coming over to talk to you. You're welcome.)
That is not porn! That is my grandma you insensitive clod!
BTW: the last porn pic was filtered by FB :(
The US has always had lots of guns in civilian hands. It's one of the reasons Japan never invaded in WW2.
Congratulations, you made it into the club "Dumbest comment ever", welcome.
Thats a myth.
Weapon ownership is more or less the same ratio in USA and Switzerland.
In Switzerland members of the militia have an assault rife at home, but since 2007 no ammunition.