Bought as a kit in early '77. I had 16K of RAM in 4 4K boards (yes, I know that was too much for the time), the TVTypewriter (1200-baud serial16 x 64 character upper AND lower-case display) and a cassette recorder for 300-baud mass storage. It was pretty advanced for the time, on power up it booted to the PROM debugger, instead of needing to toggle in a boot loader like on the Altair boxes.
I've carried a pager for over 25 years (systems programmer, then systems admin(VMS, Linux, SAN...)). I like the pager for several reasons: 1) after so many years it is guaranteed to wake me up (and more importantly, it doesn't wake up my wife). 2) it will respond in places that my phone won't reliably get a signal. 3) battery life. 4) clips to my belt and forget it's there.5) if I go on vacation, I can leave it behind.
Most paging systems will pass email notifications to the pager; at this point most of my pages are one system or another crying for daddy to help.
One thing that can really hold it back though is its file system.
What would happen if you put a case sensitive file system? How much would break? Or did they do that in the intervening years?
ODS-5 has been case-sensitive w/long filenames since version 7 came out around the turn of the millennium. Not much of anything breaks; you just need to be a bit careful.
Yeah, it's using a lot more CPU. My 2.6GHz dual-core MacBookPro shows Firefox running at 50% - 80% (out of 200%) usage just reading this article. Used to run about 15%-20%. (Firefox 3.6.13, AdBlock+ disabled for slashdot, Mac OS X 10.6.6).
You still have a broken threshold adjustment on iPad's Safari. The new slider is completely non-functional. What's worse, going back to D1 doesn't work at all.
Another thing that Google might do would be to throw out the BigTable source (maybe a generation or two behind) to poison the commercial big database market.
My 55+ year old eyes work fine hour after hour on my 17" MacBookPro at the native 1920X1200 resolution. Typically, I run 6-9 virtual screens at time.
The machine is fast, utterly reliable (uptimes only limited by time between major s/w updates), light, cool running and has one of the best keyboard and trackpad sets around.
The real reason for the change to variable prices was that in return *ALL* the labels moved to DRM-free tunes.
That was a huge concession by the labels.
I'm kinda the same kind of guy (30+ years experience) -- however the way I characterize it is "Jack of all trades, master of what's in working set".
I'll get as deep as I need to for a particular area, but I don't feel I need to become expert beyond what's needed. The more experience you have in seemingly diverse areas the better because you can cross-correlate your knowledge. For example, as I was tackling Oracle DBA stuff, the OS management and systems programming I've done really helped get a feel for what was happening underneath the surface. Conversely, the Oracle knowledge has made me better able to manage my systems.
command-down arrow also works
This is basic Finder navigation - command-up arrow moves you up,
command-down arrow moves down into the selected folder. If what you've
got selected is an application, it opens it. It worked about the same
in System 6.
I'll try to get technical details tomorrow from the Citrix team (I'm on the VMS end of things), but we're a large healthcare system running a moderately large Citrix farm (~100 servers) for our clinical systems. We've got 4 DL-585's (IIRC) running 2k3 and six VMWare Citrix instances per server in production. User loading is about 20-25 users / "server". Once we got through some initial headaches, it's been quite solid. One very nice thing is that if a "server" gets bollixed up, we don't go through the usual Ghost re-imaging process to restore the server, but just copy over the VM disk image again.
If you don't like ObjectiveC, use Carbon with C++ in XCode. Can't second your recommendation on CodeWarrior since as soon as Apple makes the x86 switch CodeWarrior will be as dead as the proverbial Norwegian Blue Parrot. Nothing you write using CodeWarrior will port to x86 without a major effort.
Idea is the best IDE I've ever used -- and usually every year around the holidays they offer personal licenses for (IIRC) $250. I picked up a license out of my own pocket several years ago and it's one purchase (+ upgrades:) I've never regretted.
Mac backward compatibility is pretty damned good.
I have a copy of the *original* Missle Commander (v2.3 August 18, 1984) which runs just fine -- including playing speed -- on my PBook 17" w/OS X 1.4.3.
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Bought as a kit in early '77. I had 16K of RAM in 4 4K boards (yes, I know that was too much for the time), the TVTypewriter (1200-baud serial16 x 64 character upper AND lower-case display) and a cassette recorder for 300-baud mass storage. It was pretty advanced for the time, on power up it booted to the PROM debugger, instead of needing to toggle in a boot loader like on the Altair boxes.
I've carried a pager for over 25 years (systems programmer, then systems admin(VMS, Linux, SAN...)). I like the pager for several reasons: 1) after so many years it is guaranteed to wake me up (and more importantly, it doesn't wake up my wife). 2) it will respond in places that my phone won't reliably get a signal. 3) battery life. 4) clips to my belt and forget it's there.5) if I go on vacation, I can leave it behind. Most paging systems will pass email notifications to the pager; at this point most of my pages are one system or another crying for daddy to help.
One thing that can really hold it back though is its file system.
What would happen if you put a case sensitive file system? How much would break? Or did they do that in the intervening years?
ODS-5 has been case-sensitive w/long filenames since version 7 came out around the turn of the millennium. Not much of anything breaks; you just need to be a bit careful.
Lets start with being able to get source code for the OS or any of the apps.
Please point me to the OS source for AIX or HP/UX - a couple of other UNIXes.
I think you're missing a subtlety here, Linux users DO want to mess with command line settings and tools.
Apple users don't, and therefore they don't get them. No one tool is best for all jobs or all users.
Actually, Mac OS X is a *certified* UNIX, along with Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX. What command line tools do you think it doesn't have?
Linux isn't a UNIX, it's a unix-like system.
Can I get the old one back?
You still have a broken threshold adjustment on iPad's Safari. The new slider is completely non-functional. What's worse, going back to D1 doesn't work at all.
OMG, fucking is a myth?!
This is Slashdot after all.
Wouldn't Larry like that?
The machine is fast, utterly reliable (uptimes only limited by time between major s/w updates), light, cool running and has one of the best keyboard and trackpad sets around.
The real reason for the change to variable prices was that in return *ALL* the labels moved to DRM-free tunes. That was a huge concession by the labels.
Oh, so sorry -- none of your POS cheap PCs have moved out of the 1980's.
I'll get as deep as I need to for a particular area, but I don't feel I need to become expert beyond what's needed. The more experience you have in seemingly diverse areas the better because you can cross-correlate your knowledge. For example, as I was tackling Oracle DBA stuff, the OS management and systems programming I've done really helped get a feel for what was happening underneath the surface. Conversely, the Oracle knowledge has made me better able to manage my systems.
Don't sell your varied experience short.
You misspelled "a bad copy of OS X"
command-down arrow also works This is basic Finder navigation - command-up arrow moves you up, command-down arrow moves down into the selected folder. If what you've got selected is an application, it opens it. It worked about the same in System 6.
Quoth CmdrTaco "Less space than a tape. No write-protect ring. Lame."
I'll try to get technical details tomorrow from the Citrix team (I'm on the VMS end of things), but we're a large healthcare system running a moderately large Citrix farm (~100 servers) for our clinical systems. We've got 4 DL-585's (IIRC) running 2k3 and six VMWare Citrix instances per server in production. User loading is about 20-25 users / "server". Once we got through some initial headaches, it's been quite solid. One very nice thing is that if a "server" gets bollixed up, we don't go through the usual Ghost re-imaging process to restore the server, but just copy over the VM disk image again.
Oh, c'mon -- John Dvorak's made a career out of just that!
If you don't like ObjectiveC, use Carbon with C++ in XCode. Can't second your recommendation on CodeWarrior since as soon as Apple makes the x86 switch CodeWarrior will be as dead as the proverbial Norwegian Blue Parrot. Nothing you write using CodeWarrior will port to x86 without a major effort.
If I can't fix it, it ain't broke!
Idea is the best IDE I've ever used -- and usually every year around the holidays they offer personal licenses for (IIRC) $250. I picked up a license out of my own pocket several years ago and it's one purchase (+ upgrades :) I've never regretted.
Or install current XCode and get the WebObjects developer kit for slightly less (i.e., *free*).
Mac backward compatibility is pretty damned good. I have a copy of the *original* Missle Commander (v2.3 August 18, 1984) which runs just fine -- including playing speed -- on my PBook 17" w/OS X 1.4.3.