My first home computer was also an Apple ][+ clone, a Basis 108. Came with 64K RAM, two floppy drives, onboard Z80 card, and a beige case that was built to withstand the MOAB. Total price of the computer and a small monochrome monitor: $2,000.
My first quarter in college:
8 AM E&M
9 AM Linear Algebra
10 AM Russian
11 AM English
Except for the physics lab one afternoon a week, I was done by noon, and could get my homework completed before the noisy masses returned to the dorm mid-afternoon
US route numbering is fairly consistent. However, you might want to travel US 52. Sometimes it's signed north south; other times it's signed east-west.
My Acer Aspire One AOA150 is real netbook - Atom N270, 1GB RAM, 1024x600 screen, 120 GB HDD. Cost me $400 back in September, 2008. Not exactly cheap at the time. My HP Stream 11 is a netbook too (I think) - Celeron N2840, 2GB RAM, 1366x768 screen, 32 GB eMMC. Cost me $179 a year and a half ago plus another $20 for a 64 GB mini flash drive. That I'd call that cheap.
Not everyone starts with BASIC. I actually started with PL/1 (and don't remember any of it). Why PL/1? Because that was what was taught in the intro course for non-engineers (the sections of the intro course that started with FORTRAN were for engineering majors only),
Sorry, I don't have such a picture. He did let me touch it when I saw him last year over the holidays, but wouldn't let me boot the copy of Linux Mint I had on my 8 GB flash drive.
Quite frankly, it's morethan a little arrogant to claim that it is almost inexcusable for someone to be using a 32-bit only CPU in 2016. WTF am I supposed to do with my (admittedly ancient) Acer Aspire One ZG5 netbook? The 120 GB HDD is basically 4x the capacity of the eMMC in my HP Stream 11. And, that 120GB HDD multiboots Win XP, Fedora Mate Rawhide, and Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I happen to prefer Mate to XFCE and LXDE, but those DEs also run just fine. With only 1GB of non-expandable RAM, the ZG5 is somewhat limited in its capabilities. However, as a netbook. I find it adequate.
Running Ubuntu 16.10 on my Stream 11 (N2840 version). Decided to keep Windows (it came with 8.1, I upgraded to 10) so I run Ubuntu off a 64 GB USB3 mini flash drive.
Perhaps they use raw alumina and a source of sodium in their lens glass manufacturing recipe rather than sodic feldspar. That would explain both the "made with sapphire" claim and the hardness of the glass
Although I keep old/current versions of OSs (Windows 7, Ubuntu 16.04, and Fedora 24) on my desktop PC just in case something goes wrong, my prmary OS are Fedora Rawhide, Ubuntu 16.10 dev, and the latest build of Win 10 I've happened to install
You can (or could) get an HP Stream 11. Mine has a Celeron N2840 (not significantly faster than the N2830), and, thanks to the SD card (from which it can't boot) dual-boots Windows 10 (upgraded from 8) and Ubuntu 16.10 (development) Mate (boot sector on the internal eMMC)
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FORTRAN was offered only to engineering students; everyone else took PL/1
My first home computer was also an Apple ][+ clone, a Basis 108. Came with 64K RAM, two floppy drives, onboard Z80 card, and a beige case that was built to withstand the MOAB. Total price of the computer and a small monochrome monitor: $2,000.
My first quarter in college:
8 AM E&M
9 AM Linear Algebra
10 AM Russian
11 AM English
Except for the physics lab one afternoon a week, I was done by noon, and could get my homework completed before the noisy masses returned to the dorm mid-afternoon
US route numbering is fairly consistent. However, you might want to travel US 52. Sometimes it's signed north south; other times it's signed east-west.
My Acer Aspire One AOA150 is real netbook - Atom N270, 1GB RAM, 1024x600 screen, 120 GB HDD. Cost me $400 back in September, 2008. Not exactly cheap at the time. My HP Stream 11 is a netbook too (I think) - Celeron N2840, 2GB RAM, 1366x768 screen, 32 GB eMMC. Cost me $179 a year and a half ago plus another $20 for a 64 GB mini flash drive. That I'd call that cheap.
Not everyone starts with BASIC. I actually started with PL/1 (and don't remember any of it). Why PL/1? Because that was what was taught in the intro course for non-engineers (the sections of the intro course that started with FORTRAN were for engineering majors only),
Now I know where I went wrong. I didn't start with FORTRAN, and never learned APL.
I paid $2,000 for one of these https://deskthority.net/wiki/Basis_108 in 1982. I had a lot of fun with it, whether or not it was cool
Sorry, I don't have such a picture. He did let me touch it when I saw him last year over the holidays, but wouldn't let me boot the copy of Linux Mint I had on my 8 GB flash drive.
My brother-in-law has a Surface Book.
Quite frankly, it's morethan a little arrogant to claim that it is almost inexcusable for someone to be using a 32-bit only CPU in 2016. WTF am I supposed to do with my (admittedly ancient) Acer Aspire One ZG5 netbook? The 120 GB HDD is basically 4x the capacity of the eMMC in my HP Stream 11. And, that 120GB HDD multiboots Win XP, Fedora Mate Rawhide, and Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I happen to prefer Mate to XFCE and LXDE, but those DEs also run just fine. With only 1GB of non-expandable RAM, the ZG5 is somewhat limited in its capabilities. However, as a netbook. I find it adequate.
Running Ubuntu 16.10 on my Stream 11 (N2840 version). Decided to keep Windows (it came with 8.1, I upgraded to 10) so I run Ubuntu off a 64 GB USB3 mini flash drive.
Perhaps they use raw alumina and a source of sodium in their lens glass manufacturing recipe rather than sodic feldspar. That would explain both the "made with sapphire" claim and the hardness of the glass
I'm not senile yet; these are not difficult questions. The answer to each of them is, "yes."
but again we know from experience that given a few million years our ape cousins will evolve to replace us
How do we know that? Bonobos and chimps are just as evolved as we are.
What does any of this have to do with programming languages?
This has absolutely nothing to do with programming languages. Why should it? - this is a slashdot discussion
Nitrogen is more popular than oxygen by a factor of about 3.7
I have signed "Mickey Mouse" on more than one occasion.
I'm a geologist and I drink milk. But how the editors knew of that connection, is beyond me
Although I keep old/current versions of OSs (Windows 7, Ubuntu 16.04, and Fedora 24) on my desktop PC just in case something goes wrong, my prmary OS are Fedora Rawhide, Ubuntu 16.10 dev, and the latest build of Win 10 I've happened to install
My poor old Acer Netbook, 7 years old and going strong, isn't 64 bit, and runs Linux Mint very well.
My ZG5 is currently running Win XP, Fedora 24 and Ubuntu 16.04 Mate. I'n hesitant to try Windows 10 on an Atom N270 with only 1GB RAM.
Jail them for fraud
The eMMC isn't for speed. It's the cheapest way to give you just enough storage to hold Windows and a small browser cache.
You can (or could) get an HP Stream 11. Mine has a Celeron N2840 (not significantly faster than the N2830), and, thanks to the SD card (from which it can't boot) dual-boots Windows 10 (upgraded from 8) and Ubuntu 16.10 (development) Mate (boot sector on the internal eMMC)
AceCalc on a Franklin Ace 1000 wasn't bad. However, I that machine had a whopping 64K RAM.