Why the hell would anybody dual boot? All that means is having to reboot all the time. It means having part of the software you use unavailable at any time. Run the alternate oses you need infrequently out of VMs. For your desktop, get a good KVM and multiple boxes.
Dual boot is the kind of thing I thought had died out long ago.
Stac: why ahould I bemoan that a company that produced a kludge to compress data on my hard drive found their technology absorbed into DOS so that I could use it for free?
OS/2: IBM tried to take back what they had given away for free (the open PC arcitecture) and failed because Microsoft wouldn't partner with them to do so.
Those are just the oldest two. Microsoft also stopped Netscap from turning the web into something they owned with their propritary Netscape web servers.
There is a black and white checkered history of every entity involved in the modern history of computing. If you back away from specific instances and quit drinking one side or the other's koolaide, the black/white check pattern transforms into gray.
No, the space program of the '60s was a way to spend a lot of money in a way the public would find acceptable, to develop the technology needed for precision warhead delivery.
Intel doesn't care much. The 'opponent' AMD may produce a fine product, but not in a significant enough market segment for Intel to bother caring about. I am not some big Intel fan saying this, just a disinterested observer (the first x86 processor that I can remember noticing I was running that was an AMD part was an 8088 chip).
AMD/Intel fanboys in threads like this are like dogs in the street chasing motorcycles. Get a clue, just get on an Intel or AMD bike and go for a ride. It's much more fun than huffing tailpipe fumes.
I accidentally overclocked my first 486 motherboard, back when a 486 motherboard was leading edge hardware. Basically, I hadet up the ISA bus clock multiplier wrong, so that the ISA bus was running at 12 Mhz. Because the cards I happened to have in my system worked, it made my system run with much faster bus i/o. (This was back in the era when motherboard settings had to have adjustments so that the isa bus would run at the correct 8 Mhz with varying CPU clocks)
Eventually I acquired a card where it crashed the system and I had to figure out why and fix it.
I sold my original Pentium 75 chip after I upgraded to a 133mmx processor. It went to a guy at work who was an overclocking enthusiast. A 'just becuz' enthusiast who could easily afford the latest faster tech. That was my first contact with 'overclocking' enthusiasts. Kind of like people who enjoy getting the most out of a 3.5 horsepower engine in a go cart. Have fun, people.
PHBs seldom are buying from the 'tip' of the leading edge of processors. They buy what the PC vendors are integrating at a reasonable price, and based on a long term track record.
It's a shame Toyota can't just buy Tesla and inject their experienced staff into Tesla to get the job done. S.V. geeks can buy all the gear, but they can't instantly know what to do with it.
Apple can barely write Mac software that works. If they needed to put together a team to write the Android and Windows Facetime client, people would fight to stay off that project, which would be located in some shitty warehouse far away from the Heavens Gate spaceship building.
The result would be terrible shit, like Windows Itunes or qUicktime and the mess that Windows Safari was.
Apple's coders can barely code for the hardware directly controlled by their own teams.
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Why the hell would anybody dual boot? All that means is having to reboot all the time. It means having part of the software you use unavailable at any time. Run the alternate oses you need infrequently out of VMs. For your desktop, get a good KVM and multiple boxes.
Dual boot is the kind of thing I thought had died out long ago.
Yeah, uh, no.
Any more throwaways to contribute?
Stac: why ahould I bemoan that a company that produced a kludge to compress data on my hard drive found their technology absorbed into DOS so that I could use it for free?
OS/2: IBM tried to take back what they had given away for free (the open PC arcitecture) and failed because Microsoft wouldn't partner with them to do so.
Those are just the oldest two. Microsoft also stopped Netscap from turning the web into something they owned with their propritary Netscape web servers.
There is a black and white checkered history of every entity involved in the modern history of computing. If you back away from specific instances and quit drinking one side or the other's koolaide, the black/white check pattern transforms into gray.
Pony up the money, then. Or you're not risking anything.
The ghost of Marvin Minsky says: "Come join me."
No, the space program of the '60s was a way to spend a lot of money in a way the public would find acceptable, to develop the technology needed for precision warhead delivery.
Intel doesn't care much. The 'opponent' AMD may produce a fine product, but not in a significant enough market segment for Intel to bother caring about. I am not some big Intel fan saying this, just a disinterested observer (the first x86 processor that I can remember noticing I was running that was an AMD part was an 8088 chip).
AMD/Intel fanboys in threads like this are like dogs in the street chasing motorcycles. Get a clue, just get on an Intel or AMD bike and go for a ride. It's much more fun than huffing tailpipe fumes.
You definitely have NOT tasted shit, if you think it's only 10% worse than a fart.
I accidentally overclocked my first 486 motherboard, back when a 486 motherboard was leading edge hardware. Basically, I hadet up the ISA bus clock multiplier wrong, so that the ISA bus was running at 12 Mhz. Because the cards I happened to have in my system worked, it made my system run with much faster bus i/o. (This was back in the era when motherboard settings had to have adjustments so that the isa bus would run at the correct 8 Mhz with varying CPU clocks)
Eventually I acquired a card where it crashed the system and I had to figure out why and fix it.
I sold my original Pentium 75 chip after I upgraded to a 133mmx processor. It went to a guy at work who was an overclocking enthusiast. A 'just becuz' enthusiast who could easily afford the latest faster tech. That was my first contact with 'overclocking' enthusiasts. Kind of like people who enjoy getting the most out of a 3.5 horsepower engine in a go cart. Have fun, people.
PHBs seldom are buying from the 'tip' of the leading edge of processors. They buy what the PC vendors are integrating at a reasonable price, and based on a long term track record.
The same hysterical bullshit when Reagan was president.
But have your fun.
Playing go is just abstract logic. It's entirely software. Building cars doesn't scale out in any way similar.
It goes against all the modern quality initiatives. You don't test quality into your product, you design it into your product.
'Driverless cars' is a ridiculous moving target. Maybe Tesla should stick to their original mission: electric cars with steering wheels.
It's a shame Toyota can't just buy Tesla and inject their experienced staff into Tesla to get the job done. S.V. geeks can buy all the gear, but they can't instantly know what to do with it.
You don't really live in the vibrant metropolis known as Stockholm. You just suffer from a syndrome that makes you think you do.
Now yer drooling, culty creep.
Only Apple zealots and Scientologists refer to the people who disagree with them as 'haters.'
Yer a frickin' culty creep, dood.
Apple can barely write Mac software that works. If they needed to put together a team to write the Android and Windows Facetime client, people would fight to stay off that project, which would be located in some shitty warehouse far away from the Heavens Gate spaceship building.
The result would be terrible shit, like Windows Itunes or qUicktime and the mess that Windows Safari was.
Apple's coders can barely code for the hardware directly controlled by their own teams.
The morons all woot and cheer for one brand or another.
I am UC. Watch out for phimosis.
You have also grown older.
Can I mine bitcoins on my Vodoo3 2000?
True, but the Altair made the cover of Popular Electronics.
Don't you have more than that to contribute to the discussion?