What have been some of Brady Forrest's successes? Why is he 'selling books' if he is successful at startups? Why isn't he a billionaire running a company?
I have a number of AMD based computers and devices. However, I mostly remember AMD as the company that made a second-sourced 80286 processor. They also made 8088 processors, I think.
The first time I installed Windows 95 it was a beta version on a CD-ROM that I'd been handed at a Microsoft Developer's event of some sort. (I promptly took it to work and installed it over my Windows for Workgroup and discovered via the 'Network Neighborhood' that there was tons of stuff out there on the Work servers that we were't supposed to be able to casually 'browse.')
I didn't encounter floppy versions of Win95 until significantly later, when I bought a laptop that didn't have a CD drive. You had to make an 'install set' with your own floppies back then, though Toshiba kindly provided nice professional looking stickers for each diskette. (When I produced my set [stupidly not buying new high quality media to use for that purpose] it had a defective disk #17 if I remember right. You just had to make sure not to install the optional components on #17 to get a clean install without it crashing.)
Also, the 3 buttons in the window, that's as much to do with XWindows as Microsoft. Remember MacOSX has roots in NeXT which has roots in UNIX. It's odd to attribute to Windows when there's a direct line to XWindows.
There were competing GUI choices on UNIX. The X Window System (*ahem*) wasn't even the leading choice during the early period. Sun had a couple GUIs, SGI had a gui, etc. The X Window System came along later.
NeXT and their display-postscript scheme came significantly later.
I was using an ASR-33 in High School. But sometimes we had permission to use the Silent 700 terminal, or even the CRT terminal. Those were faster, at 300 baud, though you couldn't save your program to paper tape on them.
Except you're forgetting Windows Paint and Windows Write.
But I had In-A-Vision and later Micrografx Designer. I ran In-A-Vision (which came with a Windows 1 runtime installer) on my 8088 machine with Windows 2. It made Mac Paint look like a turd.
I always wanted to drag the hard drive icon to the trash and have it make the hard disk version of that stupid noise the floppy eject motor made, and spit the hard drive out.
(If you've never run MacOS on floppy diskettes, esp. on a one drive Mac, you've not had the opportunity to grow really really sick of that eject sound)
Apple mainly succeeded in the legal realm. They sued all the GUI OS companies out of business. The GEM desktop is gone, for one example. Geos was driven out of the market.
In actuality, what Apples legal muscle succeeded in doing was run all of Microsoft's competitors on the PC Clone platform out of business. Then Microsoft had the resources to defeat Apple's 'Look and Feel' lawsuit (which everybody involved in Free Software, in particular people like RMS actively campaigned against) and Windows owned the desktop.
Microsoft has a lot to thank Apple for. Apple plowed their field for them.
Also, Mac users have never wanted their OS to be the dominant platform. Why should the rabble get to use their cool 'elite' stuff?
I ran Windows 2000 long into the XP era, and lots of other people did as well. In fact, I've never owned a 'legal' XP installer, because I didn't do XP until we were essentially forced to (and when XP Corporate iso images were commonly available.)
Before XP and before the 'activation' era I bought a full retail-box copy of every Microsoft OS. It just made sense to 'own' a copy that I'd be able to use where I wanted. Since 'activation' I've never bought a Microsoft OS.
Well, on a 386 or better processor, Windows 3.1 would run in protected mode or '386 enhanced mode' and provide virtual DOS environments to run many MS-DOS programs, and also use 32-bit system calls to access the hard drive. So it was in a sense a 'shell' that ran on top of MS-DOS but also enhanced the performance of DOS programs run with it. I ran Windows 3 for years before I could afford a 386 though. A good old 8088 machine with a Hercules graphic card, and later an IBM EGA card in mono-graphics mode (there was a way to plug a 'digital' monochrome display into a real IBM EGA card that was jumpered correctly and get a pretty nice Windows display- much better than Hercules.)
You could also produce a 'bootable Windows 95 diskette' and use it to format and sys a hard drive and copy all the command-line utilities into an install and have an "MS-DOS Windows 95 edition." Which lost you all the Protected Mood goodness and thus wasn't really very useful.
If you had the Windows 95 5-1/4" floppy diskette version, no CD key was required, and the installer wasn't fingerprinted.
If you used the 3-1/2" version, it 'fingerprinted' diskette one with your user name, etc.
Copying all the contents of the 5-1/4" diskette version of the Windows 95 installer to a folder and burning it to a CD-ROM produced a copy of Windows 95 that didn't require a CD key or any form of 'validation.' It is also an extremely primative first-out version of Windows 95. From before they knew much about the Internet, actually. That was the MSN days when Microsoft thought they were competing with CompuServ and America Online.
The only way to get the 5-1/4" version was to send in a coupon to Microsoft requesting it on 'alternative media' and they sent it to you for free.
Later on, they also would send a free set of 5-1/4" diskettes for Windows 98. I requested that too and for some reason they sent me two massive sets of all those diskettes.
I wouldn't call Android a 'fork' of Linux. Linux is just a kernel, a plug-in component used in many different operating systems, i.e. Debian, Slackware, SuSE, Ubuntu. Android didn't 'fork' from any of those operating systems. It just incorporated the Linux kernel. It isn't a linux 'distribution' because it's for the most part a unified whole, not a dogs-breakfast of misc. userland programs from all over, which is what most (all?) of the operating systems that call themselves 'Linux' are.
One time I installed NetBSD on a box and configured and used it as my desktop machine. A few weeks later I needed to reboot it and was confused why it didn't have a hostname. It turned out that it was because I had installed it, done the first boot after install, and configured everything, but had never booted it a second time and had forgotten to add a hostname in the/etc/rc.d/rc.conf file. In other words it ran for weeks as a useful desktop machine but had only been booted a single time.
NetBSD is that easy to install, configure, and use, if you understand the classic startup sequence for BSD UNIX.
Apple killed Darwin. I ran it for a little while, though I prefer NetBSD. Darwin wasn't very interesting compared to an OS that has a vibrant active user/developer community.
Regular OS updates to the whole install base. Affordable hardware. An app firewall of sorts that makes it easier for users to be aware of and in more control of the Android apps on their device.
Also a "for the rest of us" ethos that signals to the preening salescritters in the Apple Stores that they're just modern day diamond sellers.
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What have been some of Brady Forrest's successes? Why is he 'selling books' if he is successful at startups? Why isn't he a billionaire running a company?
A 5/16" drill through the CPU works, too, but is just as off topic..
it's possible the car was stalled and the driver had their nose in the phone to call for help.
There needs to be an edit history function that records what they did and gets them banned.
I have a number of AMD based computers and devices. However, I mostly remember AMD as the company that made a second-sourced 80286 processor. They also made 8088 processors, I think.
And Wolfenstein 3D came on an installer that fit on a single floppy diskette.
It's amazing how larded-up FPSs have become since then.
The first time I installed Windows 95 it was a beta version on a CD-ROM that I'd been handed at a Microsoft Developer's event of some sort. (I promptly took it to work and installed it over my Windows for Workgroup and discovered via the 'Network Neighborhood' that there was tons of stuff out there on the Work servers that we were't supposed to be able to casually 'browse.')
I didn't encounter floppy versions of Win95 until significantly later, when I bought a laptop that didn't have a CD drive. You had to make an 'install set' with your own floppies back then, though Toshiba kindly provided nice professional looking stickers for each diskette. (When I produced my set [stupidly not buying new high quality media to use for that purpose] it had a defective disk #17 if I remember right. You just had to make sure not to install the optional components on #17 to get a clean install without it crashing.)
Also, the 3 buttons in the window, that's as much to do with XWindows as Microsoft. Remember MacOSX has roots in NeXT which has roots in UNIX. It's odd to attribute to Windows when there's a direct line to XWindows.
There were competing GUI choices on UNIX. The X Window System (*ahem*) wasn't even the leading choice during the early period. Sun had a couple GUIs, SGI had a gui, etc. The X Window System came along later.
NeXT and their display-postscript scheme came significantly later.
Claiming that OSX is copying the task bar with its dock is a bit of an overstatement.
My observation would be that OSX is copying the OS/2 dock with it's dock.
I was using an ASR-33 in High School. But sometimes we had permission to use the Silent 700 terminal, or even the CRT terminal. Those were faster, at 300 baud, though you couldn't save your program to paper tape on them.
Wasn't NCSA Mosaic the program produced by the University of Illinois that Marc Andreesen stole, and ran to California to commercialize?
Except you're forgetting Windows Paint and Windows Write.
But I had In-A-Vision and later Micrografx Designer. I ran In-A-Vision (which came with a Windows 1 runtime installer) on my 8088 machine with Windows 2. It made Mac Paint look like a turd.
I always wanted to drag the hard drive icon to the trash and have it make the hard disk version of that stupid noise the floppy eject motor made, and spit the hard drive out.
(If you've never run MacOS on floppy diskettes, esp. on a one drive Mac, you've not had the opportunity to grow really really sick of that eject sound)
Apple mainly succeeded in the legal realm. They sued all the GUI OS companies out of business. The GEM desktop is gone, for one example. Geos was driven out of the market.
In actuality, what Apples legal muscle succeeded in doing was run all of Microsoft's competitors on the PC Clone platform out of business. Then Microsoft had the resources to defeat Apple's 'Look and Feel' lawsuit (which everybody involved in Free Software, in particular people like RMS actively campaigned against) and Windows owned the desktop.
Microsoft has a lot to thank Apple for. Apple plowed their field for them.
Also, Mac users have never wanted their OS to be the dominant platform. Why should the rabble get to use their cool 'elite' stuff?
I ran Windows 2000 long into the XP era, and lots of other people did as well. In fact, I've never owned a 'legal' XP installer, because I didn't do XP until we were essentially forced to (and when XP Corporate iso images were commonly available.)
Before XP and before the 'activation' era I bought a full retail-box copy of every Microsoft OS. It just made sense to 'own' a copy that I'd be able to use where I wanted. Since 'activation' I've never bought a Microsoft OS.
Well, on a 386 or better processor, Windows 3.1 would run in protected mode or '386 enhanced mode' and provide virtual DOS environments to run many MS-DOS programs, and also use 32-bit system calls to access the hard drive. So it was in a sense a 'shell' that ran on top of MS-DOS but also enhanced the performance of DOS programs run with it. I ran Windows 3 for years before I could afford a 386 though. A good old 8088 machine with a Hercules graphic card, and later an IBM EGA card in mono-graphics mode (there was a way to plug a 'digital' monochrome display into a real IBM EGA card that was jumpered correctly and get a pretty nice Windows display- much better than Hercules.)
You could also produce a 'bootable Windows 95 diskette' and use it to format and sys a hard drive and copy all the command-line utilities into an install and have an "MS-DOS Windows 95 edition." Which lost you all the Protected Mood goodness and thus wasn't really very useful.
If you had the Windows 95 5-1/4" floppy diskette version, no CD key was required, and the installer wasn't fingerprinted.
If you used the 3-1/2" version, it 'fingerprinted' diskette one with your user name, etc.
Copying all the contents of the 5-1/4" diskette version of the Windows 95 installer to a folder and burning it to a CD-ROM produced a copy of Windows 95 that didn't require a CD key or any form of 'validation.' It is also an extremely primative first-out version of Windows 95. From before they knew much about the Internet, actually. That was the MSN days when Microsoft thought they were competing with CompuServ and America Online.
The only way to get the 5-1/4" version was to send in a coupon to Microsoft requesting it on 'alternative media' and they sent it to you for free.
Later on, they also would send a free set of 5-1/4" diskettes for Windows 98. I requested that too and for some reason they sent me two massive sets of all those diskettes.
I worked at a place once where whole floors of the QA building had Sparc Workstations. I guess we know why Sun failed on the desktop, now.
I happen to be a chimp who is allergic to bananas.
Why did you post your hateful comment without a prominent 'Trigger Warning' at the top?
I wouldn't call Android a 'fork' of Linux. Linux is just a kernel, a plug-in component used in many different operating systems, i.e. Debian, Slackware, SuSE, Ubuntu. Android didn't 'fork' from any of those operating systems. It just incorporated the Linux kernel. It isn't a linux 'distribution' because it's for the most part a unified whole, not a dogs-breakfast of misc. userland programs from all over, which is what most (all?) of the operating systems that call themselves 'Linux' are.
One time I installed NetBSD on a box and configured and used it as my desktop machine. A few weeks later I needed to reboot it and was confused why it didn't have a hostname. It turned out that it was because I had installed it, done the first boot after install, and configured everything, but had never booted it a second time and had forgotten to add a hostname in the /etc/rc.d/rc.conf file. In other words it ran for weeks as a useful desktop machine but had only been booted a single time.
NetBSD is that easy to install, configure, and use, if you understand the classic startup sequence for BSD UNIX.
Apple killed Darwin. I ran it for a little while, though I prefer NetBSD. Darwin wasn't very interesting compared to an OS that has a vibrant active user/developer community.
Regular OS updates to the whole install base. Affordable hardware. An app firewall of sorts that makes it easier for users to be aware of and in more control of the Android apps on their device.
Also a "for the rest of us" ethos that signals to the preening salescritters in the Apple Stores that they're just modern day diamond sellers.
I know how to use the pip command in CP/M too.