In the worst case, she will have a happy life, and that is much more than most of people can say. In the best, she can be happy, make a living and maybe make other people happy.
Think that a motorola 68000, way back in the day was better than the old 286s it compared to.
Not quite right, IMHO: the memory protection, multitasking and 4 rings of execution levels in the 286 leave the 68000 in the dust. Xenix, TopView and some others in the era benefited from these enhancements.
OTOH, if your only experience with a 286 was using MS-DOS, you only saw it as a 'fast 8088', and I have to agree with you.
Popularity: Both Apple and Sun saw the writing on the wall, Sun saw it too late, Apple saw it early (or saw what happened to Sun). They both shifted from a proprietary processor and chipset to a more common and popular platform. Both platforms had specific benefits over x86 until x86 scaled far and beyond what they both offered.
Did you mean: 'Apple suffered from a PowerPC processor shortage, while Sun added x86-64 to their lines of workstations and servers'?
Get you facts right: Sun didn't shift to being an x86 shop, and Oracle hasn't, too. In fact, the SPARC architecture is so alive, that is used in some of the Top 500 Supercomputers... as IBM's PowerPC.
I started using Forth back in 1984 with my ZX Spectrum and with a Jupiter Ace. My master thesis was about a Forth-like language for PC in 1989. Since then, I have regularly returned to Forth for inspiration. I even have an unfinished but operational project of an optimizing native code Forth compiler for PIC microcontrollers.
I have always thought that Forth has a certain Taoist approach to the issue of computer programming and problem solving (not to mention that binary computers do all their magic by means of the interaction of the 0 and the 1, like the Yin and Yang). Note that, while I don't consider myself as a Taoist, I try to see the metaphysical and the practical side of things. In an interview about retrocomputing for the Spanish magazine Arroba, I said just that Forth could help in understanding the Universe, as everything in it is an active process, much like in Forth everything is an executable word, even variables.
Now, my question is: What kind of metaphysical/philosophical implications do you think Forth has, and what are your inspiration sources? Thank you.
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Great series, 'Space: 1999', season one. It shaped my taste for technology (an aesthetics!) back then.
A bit off-topic, there is a kind of reboot in the making: http://www.space2099theseries.com/
If it will be an epic win or an epic fail, it remains to be seen...
This.
In the worst case, she will have a happy life, and that is much more than most of people can say. In the best, she can be happy, make a living and maybe make other people happy.
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Wow, that was quite a load of tests.
We just saw the last one, though.
I take you mean hunter.
After all, the profession most people think of as the oldest one needs some kind of payment... if not, it would be just a hobby.
Think that a motorola 68000, way back in the day was better than the old 286s it compared to.
Not quite right, IMHO: the memory protection, multitasking and 4 rings of execution levels in the 286 leave the 68000 in the dust. Xenix, TopView and some others in the era benefited from these enhancements.
OTOH, if your only experience with a 286 was using MS-DOS, you only saw it as a 'fast 8088', and I have to agree with you.
Popularity: Both Apple and Sun saw the writing on the wall, Sun saw it too late, Apple saw it early (or saw what happened to Sun). They both shifted from a proprietary processor and chipset to a more common and popular platform. Both platforms had specific benefits over x86 until x86 scaled far and beyond what they both offered.
Did you mean: 'Apple suffered from a PowerPC processor shortage, while Sun added x86-64 to their lines of workstations and servers'?
Get you facts right: Sun didn't shift to being an x86 shop, and Oracle hasn't, too. In fact, the SPARC architecture is so alive, that is used in some of the Top 500 Supercomputers... as IBM's PowerPC.
I'm counting you guys in the US as a third world country. Sorry, but you are.
Well, in a certain sense, every country in this planet is a third world country. Third from the Sun, of course.
Please, return your Geek ID card if you don't catch the reference and/or the ha ha only serious mood. Thank you.
I wonder if it's an extrovert/introvert thing.
I am positive it is.
Ob. reference: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/about-the-book/
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way related to the author, just liked her book.
Actually, the RESET key had a stronger spring than the others and required pressing simultaneously the SHIFT key for it to have effect, IIRC.
I have always thought that Forth has a certain Taoist approach to the issue of computer programming and problem solving (not to mention that binary computers do all their magic by means of the interaction of the 0 and the 1, like the Yin and Yang). Note that, while I don't consider myself as a Taoist, I try to see the metaphysical and the practical side of things. In an interview about retrocomputing for the Spanish magazine Arroba, I said just that Forth could help in understanding the Universe, as everything in it is an active process, much like in Forth everything is an executable word, even variables.
Now, my question is: What kind of metaphysical/philosophical implications do you think Forth has, and what are your inspiration sources? Thank you.