Sure it is, if you want to only listen to it on iTunes approved hardware and/or go through one or two levels of conversion to get it to a format (i.e. true unencumbered MP3) that you can use.
Some of us like to archive all our content in unemcumbered formats from the start.
That has sadly not been my experience. Many very valuable programs are bigger than a one-person porting effort. Everybody is out 'scratching their own itch' and team efforts do not magically appear. There are a lot of useful programs that don't even port well from one freenix to another.
I'm not sure if it's even 'getting better,' with all the frenzied competing efforts at many and varied packaging schemes and 'ports' collections.
Hell, it's Sunday morning. You should have changed the channel from the religious programs to the 'public affairs' shows. You could have watched Elanor Clit and a whole bunch of her ilk flap her big wide yaw around. Maybe even Jesse Jackson or Ted Kennedy would have been on.
Search down through chapter seven here on the word password, to get a very colorful view of Stallman's strong aversion to passwords, and the hackers' fight against passwords at MIT.
This link, BTW, is to THE definitive book on Richard Stallman. If you have interest in the man read the whole thing. Buy a copy, even. It's really important stuff.
Huh? CP/M on the microbee was an 8-bit OS, for the 8080 microprocessor. MS-DOS was a 16-bit OS for the 8086 processor. You were bound to a 64K memory space. The 8086 has a 1M memory space.
It would be helpful if you would enumerate some of these 'every respects' in which it was vastly superior.
I liked CP/M mostly because it loaded so fast. There were several tracks at the front of each diskette that were reserved for the operating system (so you might as well run SYSGEN and have the OS on every program diskette.) My practice with my two-drive system was to keep data in the second drive, and switch programs in the first drive. The technique was: insert program disk. Push reset button to reboot system and load new program.
Bill Gates coded the Word Processor, written in 8085 Assembly Language, in the Tandy Model 100, arguably the first mainstream Laptop computer ever produced. I understand he hasn't touched code since then, but since this means he was hacking assembly language before a lot of the people reading this forum had even been born......
Now, if you want to talk about a 'Personal Computer Wunderkid' who has never, ever, written a line of code, you want Steve Jobs.
Gary Kildall had created CPM/86, and it was an outstanding product that incorporated modern techniques of operating systems.
Quite possibly it is better-engineered than PC-DOS was, but CP/M-86 does NOT 'incorporate modern techniques of operating systems.'
I've installed CP/M-86 on one of the old Kaypros in my collection of Old hardware. It's functionally about as 'powerful' as PC-DOS, though there are darn few binaries to run on it. It doesn't have subdirectories, and hard drive partitions are limited to 6 MB. Which is better than PC-DOS 1.0 which didn't have default support for a hard drive at ALL.
But where do you get this 'incorproated modern techniques of operating systems' notion from? Neither were very leading-edge in that regard. Remember, Xenix was already on the market. I even have an 8086 Xenix machine in my collection that's from the same era. Now *that* system incorporated modern techniques for the time...
Remember, there's more pornographic films sold to households than non-porn films.
Weird. I have a bunch of tapes around the house. The only one close to 'porn' is a 'Playboy Playmates' tape that I believe showed up in a box from an auction.
I don't think I'm that unusual a guy, either. Is it that the porn-dogs buy ten times as many titles as the rest of us?
I can't see *anything* that could be done in Linux should take much time at all to port to a Mac, since both systems are variants of Unix.
Fine, but if it were an application bound to a GUI, it would then only run on the minority of Macs that have the X Server installed, and then not with the 'look and feel' guidelines and Interface finesse that Mac users are accustomed to. There is little or nothing 'Unix' about the GUI layer on MacOS X. It's Apple's whole proprietary ballgame there, and there's no easy 'conversion' over from Linux. It would take as long, or longer than getting the app on Windows (since GTK and the QT libraries that KDE use are both already natively ported to Windows).
Beyond the above, Richard Stallman was one of the loudest advocates AGAINST passwords on accounts on the old Timesharing system (which was not UNIX) at MIT. It was considered antisocial to put a password on your account. What if somebody needed to use it?!?
A ton of the embedded controllers on the market have less than a K of read/write memory. None that I have coded for have had more than that, and my embedded code is running in probably at least a million devices by now.
The cheapest 'operating system' on the IBM-PC when it first came out was Cassette Basic. Turn on an IBM-PC with no floppy disk controller installed, or no diskette in the A: drive, and it boots up to a BASIC prompt similar to that seen on a Commodore. The earliest PC models even had a Cassette Port next to the keyboard jack so you could save and load back in your BASIC programs from Cassette Tape.
That was the 'cheapest' OS available. Any other cost extra.
Big chunks of the 'embedded controller' world work with that level of resources. Have you ever written enough assembly code yourself to eat up 4K? That's a LOT of functionality on most modern microcontrollers. However, that's for a dedicated task machine, which is what the Atari 2600 was. Comparing such a machine to one running a multitasking OS is apples/oranges.
Believe it or not, there was a day and time when Unix security was considered a bad joke, and Unix machines were academic or research boxes for the most part. That ended with the entry of Unix powerhouses like Sun, but there was an earlier era. Technically you are right, because in the bare beginning Unix was essentially a time-sharing system with users connected by dumb terminals, and Unix was ONLY a server OS.
It's erroneous to call Linux 'the latest version of Unix.' The BSD OSes are direct decendents (through layers of evolutiona and re-write which excised all the code that 'evil' entities now 'own' and wield like a weapon, of course). Linux is a clone, similar to Coherent, QNX, or OS-9.
There are many types of 'servers' and hence many segments to the 'server market' to consider. The fact that linux is slinging out a lot of html and related data on the Internet falsely distorts it's share of the 'server market.' Many businesses use a LOT of non-linux servers in critical areas of their infrastructure. There are places with an integrated Windows server solution on a corporate intranet makes a lot of good sense. Also scads and scads of non-linux, non-Windows servers out there that NEITHER os is really equipped to touch.
How much Stalin do you have in your library? How much have you read? I am still missing two volumes of his Collected Works. I don't subscribe to that particular political economy, but I also don't have a schoolboys fascination with it, or any other 19th century scheme of political economy.
Have you even read Stalin's book on political economy? Have you read anyboy elses'?
Stallman originally proprosed Lignux, which would have been no longer than Linux itself. And putting gnu smack in the middle of the name would be appropriate.
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Of _course_ Stalin wasn't much of an economist. But under Communism a lot of 'works' came from him that weren't necessarily his original works.
The tone you use in discussion indicates you're not very serious about any of this anyway, so it doesn't matter how much further this goes.
Stick to your armchair ideology. It'll be amusing to look back on with embarassment later in life.
Sure it is, if you want to only listen to it on iTunes approved hardware and/or go through one or two levels of conversion to get it to a format (i.e. true unencumbered MP3) that you can use.
Some of us like to archive all our content in unemcumbered formats from the start.
The only problem, then, will be coaxing the game animals into range of the dog's chain.
Seems like one hell of a good troll, and in the Original Story itself.
That has sadly not been my experience. Many very valuable programs are bigger than a one-person porting effort. Everybody is out 'scratching their own itch' and team efforts do not magically appear. There are a lot of useful programs that don't even port well from one freenix to another.
I'm not sure if it's even 'getting better,' with all the frenzied competing efforts at many and varied packaging schemes and 'ports' collections.
Does that pinky toe hinder your ability to breed? If not, then why should 'evolution care'?
Because people keep ramming it into door jambs, which:
1. Spoils the mood tremendously.
2. Causes the toe to become infected, subject dies before breeding can commence.
Hell, it's Sunday morning. You should have changed the channel from the religious programs to the 'public affairs' shows. You could have watched Elanor Clit and a whole bunch of her ilk flap her big wide yaw around. Maybe even Jesse Jackson or Ted Kennedy would have been on.
Big mouths, indeed.
Actually, what were doing with antibiotics is evolving the infection. Rather unintelligently.
Thanks to 'medical progress' at the end of a dollar bill, to a large degree.
Sounds like you consider wanking around at raves 'evolutionary progress.'
Hmm..
Google: stallman passwords MIT
Search down through chapter seven here on the word password, to get a very colorful view of Stallman's strong aversion to passwords, and the hackers' fight against passwords at MIT.
This link, BTW, is to THE definitive book on Richard Stallman. If you have interest in the man read the whole thing. Buy a copy, even. It's really important stuff.
Huh? CP/M on the microbee was an 8-bit OS, for the 8080 microprocessor. MS-DOS was a 16-bit OS for the 8086 processor. You were bound to a 64K memory space. The 8086 has a 1M memory space.
It would be helpful if you would enumerate some of these 'every respects' in which it was vastly superior.
I liked CP/M mostly because it loaded so fast. There were several tracks at the front of each diskette that were reserved for the operating system (so you might as well run SYSGEN and have the OS on every program diskette.) My practice with my two-drive system was to keep data in the second drive, and switch programs in the first drive. The technique was: insert program disk. Push reset button to reboot system and load new program.
Bill Gates coded the Word Processor, written in 8085 Assembly Language, in the Tandy Model 100, arguably the first mainstream Laptop computer ever produced. I understand he hasn't touched code since then, but since this means he was hacking assembly language before a lot of the people reading this forum had even been born......
Now, if you want to talk about a 'Personal Computer Wunderkid' who has never, ever, written a line of code, you want Steve Jobs.
Gary Kildall had created CPM/86, and it was an outstanding product that incorporated modern techniques of operating systems.
Quite possibly it is better-engineered than PC-DOS was, but CP/M-86 does NOT 'incorporate modern techniques of operating systems.'
I've installed CP/M-86 on one of the old Kaypros in my collection of Old hardware. It's functionally about as 'powerful' as PC-DOS, though there are darn few binaries to run on it. It doesn't have subdirectories, and hard drive partitions are limited to 6 MB. Which is better than PC-DOS 1.0 which didn't have default support for a hard drive at ALL.
But where do you get this 'incorproated modern techniques of operating systems' notion from? Neither were very leading-edge in that regard. Remember, Xenix was already on the market. I even have an 8086 Xenix machine in my collection that's from the same era. Now *that* system incorporated modern techniques for the time...
Remember, there's more pornographic films sold to households than non-porn films.
Weird. I have a bunch of tapes around the house. The only one close to 'porn' is a 'Playboy Playmates' tape that I believe showed up in a box from an auction.
I don't think I'm that unusual a guy, either. Is it that the porn-dogs buy ten times as many titles as the rest of us?
There was/is plenty of piracy on the Mac.
I remember the 'don't copy that floppy' advertisement as being produced by Apple Computer.
I can't see *anything* that could be done in Linux should take much time at all to port to a Mac, since both systems are variants of Unix.
Fine, but if it were an application bound to a GUI, it would then only run on the minority of Macs that have the X Server installed, and then not with the 'look and feel' guidelines and Interface finesse that Mac users are accustomed to. There is little or nothing 'Unix' about the GUI layer on MacOS X. It's Apple's whole proprietary ballgame there, and there's no easy 'conversion' over from Linux. It would take as long, or longer than getting the app on Windows (since GTK and the QT libraries that KDE use are both already natively ported to Windows).
And because of F/OSS all aplications created for Linux will be available for Windows or anything else.
Because it's F/OSS, it will be magically cross-ported to any and all other OSes???!!!???
Beyond the above, Richard Stallman was one of the loudest advocates AGAINST passwords on accounts on the old Timesharing system (which was not UNIX) at MIT. It was considered antisocial to put a password on your account. What if somebody needed to use it?!?
Security was a misnomer back then.
A ton of the embedded controllers on the market have less than a K of read/write memory. None that I have coded for have had more than that, and my embedded code is running in probably at least a million devices by now.
The cheapest 'operating system' on the IBM-PC when it first came out was Cassette Basic. Turn on an IBM-PC with no floppy disk controller installed, or no diskette in the A: drive, and it boots up to a BASIC prompt similar to that seen on a Commodore. The earliest PC models even had a Cassette Port next to the keyboard jack so you could save and load back in your BASIC programs from Cassette Tape.
That was the 'cheapest' OS available. Any other cost extra.
Big chunks of the 'embedded controller' world work with that level of resources. Have you ever written enough assembly code yourself to eat up 4K? That's a LOT of functionality on most modern microcontrollers. However, that's for a dedicated task machine, which is what the Atari 2600 was. Comparing such a machine to one running a multitasking OS is apples/oranges.
Unix has always been used for servers.
Believe it or not, there was a day and time when Unix security was considered a bad joke, and Unix machines were academic or research boxes for the most part. That ended with the entry of Unix powerhouses like Sun, but there was an earlier era. Technically you are right, because in the bare beginning Unix was essentially a time-sharing system with users connected by dumb terminals, and Unix was ONLY a server OS.
It's erroneous to call Linux 'the latest version of Unix.' The BSD OSes are direct decendents (through layers of evolutiona and re-write which excised all the code that 'evil' entities now 'own' and wield like a weapon, of course). Linux is a clone, similar to Coherent, QNX, or OS-9.
There are many types of 'servers' and hence many segments to the 'server market' to consider. The fact that linux is slinging out a lot of html and related data on the Internet falsely distorts it's share of the 'server market.' Many businesses use a LOT of non-linux servers in critical areas of their infrastructure. There are places with an integrated Windows server solution on a corporate intranet makes a lot of good sense. Also scads and scads of non-linux, non-Windows servers out there that NEITHER os is really equipped to touch.
How much Stalin do you have in your library? How much have you read? I am still missing two volumes of his Collected Works. I don't subscribe to that particular political economy, but I also don't have a schoolboys fascination with it, or any other 19th century scheme of political economy.
Have you even read Stalin's book on political economy? Have you read anyboy elses'?
Stallman originally proprosed Lignux, which would have been no longer than Linux itself. And putting gnu smack in the middle of the name would be appropriate.