The Word Processing application built into the TRS=80 Model 100 (the world's first laptop) was personally written by Bill Gates in 8085 Assembly Language. It was Gates' last real 'coding' project at Mircosoft.
The built in BASIC in ROM on all the early TRS-80 machines (and most of the other machines of the era) was by Microsoft.
Being 'the first' has nothing to do with 'ushering in an era.' Being a loser who recovered from the loss by nestling in and becoming a niche player with a curated boutique customer base is a remarkable recovery, of course.
The people who invented the graphical interface were not good at promoting it or implementing it in a fashion that had broad appeal and robustness. So operations like Microsoft, Apple, Digital Research (Gem) and so on had to usher people into the 'room' so to speak.
Big Coal provides people with cheap energy with side effects to kill themselves with. Big tobacco provides a distribution network for a natural insecticide (nicotine) that people kill themselves with. This extortionist? Nobody chooses to be blackmailed.
I bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro, and then an Asus Transformer. Both were more than $100 but they also both came with Office 2013 (home & student) preinstalled. Not a 'trial' edition, and not a subscription. The Venue 8 was $300 and O2013 retails by itself for $139. It was a decent bundle, though I had to get the Transformer Book before the office suite was seriously usable. You can add a bluetooth keyboard to the Venue 8 Pro, but the Asus comes with it, and has a much bigger screen. And the Asus was only $279.
It's entirely possible, though, that Apple could grow up and start putting real CPUs in their tablet line.
I hope nobody was seriously suggesting they put OSX on the existing line of iPads? Apple might do that to kill off the older iPads but they'd never do that and call it a new device. When Apple abandons iOS it will cease to have ever existed. It'll be like the Newton.
Why would you walk around with it. You dock the thing and move stuff in and out of the onboard flash. Or you dock it to do real work, and then can carry it to the meeting with the important info you needed.
Don't get all sulky because Apple and Google told you that you have to use the Cloud. We know, we know. It's far bigger than 3TB.
This is good stuff, though. The White House needs to cast their executive orders ever broader and wider. Soon nobody at all will believe the Executive should have any power to meddle outside the Constitutional mandate. It's a good trend. Keep it up, guys.
I for one am hoping and expecting Mozilla to come to deeply regret abandoning Firefox on Metro. I.E. is pretty nice in Metro on a tablet and when Microsoft comes out with their new non-IE browser with Windows 10 all the third party browsers are going to be caught with their pants down. Apple should probably start porting Safari to Metro as soon as they can, for when the iPad is roadkill.
Yes, and anybody who was dumb enough to buy an RT device is stuck, most likely. But the x86 equivalent to any ARM-based Win8 tablet they bought is almost certainly cheaper than the ARM unit was.
Microsoft is done with the ARM versions of Windows on tablets. Likely they want that whole mess to die in a fire. Because the new line of Atom processors is really good. I forget to plug my Asus Transformer tablet in all the time and it crashes if I leave it that way for a day or so. Because the battery life is good enough that I generally use it unwired to the charger, and the life is long enough that you forget about that. It's not fabulous battery life but it's pretty good battery life. Enough that ARM just isn't important anymore to Microsoft.
There is a broad range of Windows 8.1 tablets now running with x86 processors. Very broad. If you attach a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and run the thing in desktop mode it will run all the Windows stuff going way back. The Win8 on these things is the 32 bit version, so a lot of old legacy 32 bit stuff that breaks on Win 8 desktops will work on these tablets.
I have one of the Asus Transformer Windows 8.1 tablets.
I can plug any external hard drive into it. And it just works. Likewise any other USB peripheral anywhere in the world that works with Windows 8 works.
True, but SystemD grows so complex in the robot that a single variable tweek causes it to collapse into a big mess. Init just restarts independent and robust processes as needed.
Well, theoretically, you wouldn't give a raise of 10 million to the executives for a savings of $10 million on automation. You're forgetting the shareholders.
Once a robust capital base has been created, the shareholders are done away with.
Actually, the employees become the shareholders. Weird idea, no?
I have an RS/6000 box that runs AIX. A few years ago I reinstalled AIX on it using an external CD-ROM drive over a serial console. One of the Microchannel cards in it has the Power1 Chipset. It also has Microchannel SCSI and various other I/O cards on it. It's not joke hardware running OS/2 with an x86 processor. It's the real thing, not a run-to-proprietary-becuz-we-had-to PC clone.
It's totally different from IBM shoveling their 'IBM PC' business onto proprietary hardware and x86 on a microchannel buss design. They did that with the 'PC' to run away from the ISA buss which they had lost control of. They could have gone EISA, they could have done any number of other things. They chose to run off onto a proprietary path because they were afraid of the competition.
You weren't supposed to use it like a '101 Electronics Projects' cookbook.
I've never used anything but the first edition. It did become a 'rockstar' book, and it's possible later editions went south.
It's a 'survey' book similar to taking a 'survey' course in any topic.
It may be sometimes slightly overpraised. Hacks aren't sneered at here on Slashdot, btw.
What do you recommend? It's a book targeted at non-electronics people, i.e. scientists who need a good survey course in applied electronics for practical use in the lab. There aren't many other books like it.
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The Word Processing application built into the TRS=80 Model 100 (the world's first laptop) was personally written by Bill Gates in 8085 Assembly Language. It was Gates' last real 'coding' project at Mircosoft.
The built in BASIC in ROM on all the early TRS-80 machines (and most of the other machines of the era) was by Microsoft.
The Lisa was a monumental failure.
Being 'the first' has nothing to do with 'ushering in an era.' Being a loser who recovered from the loss by nestling in and becoming a niche player with a curated boutique customer base is a remarkable recovery, of course.
Ushering in does not mean inventing.
The people who invented the graphical interface were not good at promoting it or implementing it in a fashion that had broad appeal and robustness. So operations like Microsoft, Apple, Digital Research (Gem) and so on had to usher people into the 'room' so to speak.
Why the fury about this?
Big Coal provides people with cheap energy with side effects to kill themselves with. Big tobacco provides a distribution network for a natural insecticide (nicotine) that people kill themselves with. This extortionist? Nobody chooses to be blackmailed.
You mean, like the freaks obsessing over sex lives (both sides in the matter) in Indiana this past week?
I took the photo for my wallpaper in the back yard. A small patch of wild strawberries.
It'd suck to live in a place where my 'lawn' hasn't been continuously growing for about a century.
I bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro, and then an Asus Transformer. Both were more than $100 but they also both came with Office 2013 (home & student) preinstalled. Not a 'trial' edition, and not a subscription. The Venue 8 was $300 and O2013 retails by itself for $139. It was a decent bundle, though I had to get the Transformer Book before the office suite was seriously usable. You can add a bluetooth keyboard to the Venue 8 Pro, but the Asus comes with it, and has a much bigger screen. And the Asus was only $279.
It's entirely possible, though, that Apple could grow up and start putting real CPUs in their tablet line.
I hope nobody was seriously suggesting they put OSX on the existing line of iPads? Apple might do that to kill off the older iPads but they'd never do that and call it a new device. When Apple abandons iOS it will cease to have ever existed. It'll be like the Newton.
Why would you walk around with it. You dock the thing and move stuff in and out of the onboard flash. Or you dock it to do real work, and then can carry it to the meeting with the important info you needed.
Don't get all sulky because Apple and Google told you that you have to use the Cloud. We know, we know. It's far bigger than 3TB.
They needed to post a few dumber April Fools jokes, you know.
Slashdot isn't just nerds anymore. There are IT types here, too. The kind with certs.
Maturity is about knowing when to stop, and I think we've way beyond reason...
The clock is about knowing when to stop, and here where I am it's still only 10:40PM on April 1.
You need to research the meaning of the term 'troll.'
The trolls are the posts on the front page of /. today.
The people who you refer to as 'trolls' are rough fish. Flippin' around in the bottom of the boat, no less.
That was somebody from Apple. They screwed up. They were going for your pancreas.
This is good stuff, though. The White House needs to cast their executive orders ever broader and wider. Soon nobody at all will believe the Executive should have any power to meddle outside the Constitutional mandate. It's a good trend. Keep it up, guys.
The revered author Brian Herbert has been found dead in his home.
There are no plans for anybody to continue his writing projects.
I for one am hoping and expecting Mozilla to come to deeply regret abandoning Firefox on Metro. I.E. is pretty nice in Metro on a tablet and when Microsoft comes out with their new non-IE browser with Windows 10 all the third party browsers are going to be caught with their pants down. Apple should probably start porting Safari to Metro as soon as they can, for when the iPad is roadkill.
Yes, and anybody who was dumb enough to buy an RT device is stuck, most likely. But the x86 equivalent to any ARM-based Win8 tablet they bought is almost certainly cheaper than the ARM unit was.
Microsoft is done with the ARM versions of Windows on tablets. Likely they want that whole mess to die in a fire. Because the new line of Atom processors is really good. I forget to plug my Asus Transformer tablet in all the time and it crashes if I leave it that way for a day or so. Because the battery life is good enough that I generally use it unwired to the charger, and the life is long enough that you forget about that. It's not fabulous battery life but it's pretty good battery life. Enough that ARM just isn't important anymore to Microsoft.
There is a broad range of Windows 8.1 tablets now running with x86 processors. Very broad. If you attach a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and run the thing in desktop mode it will run all the Windows stuff going way back. The Win8 on these things is the 32 bit version, so a lot of old legacy 32 bit stuff that breaks on Win 8 desktops will work on these tablets.
I have one of the Asus Transformer Windows 8.1 tablets.
I can plug any external hard drive into it. And it just works. Likewise any other USB peripheral anywhere in the world that works with Windows 8 works.
Cruddy walled garden stuff is gonna die.
This isn't your grandma's Atom.
The Windows Tablets are going to eventually kill the iPad unless Apple comes to their senses and tears down that wall.
"Apple, Tear Down This Wall!"
(they won't, the long chain of fart apps will drag them under)
True, but SystemD grows so complex in the robot that a single variable tweek causes it to collapse into a big mess. Init just restarts independent and robust processes as needed.
Well, theoretically, you wouldn't give a raise of 10 million to the executives for a savings of $10 million on automation. You're forgetting the shareholders.
Once a robust capital base has been created, the shareholders are done away with.
Actually, the employees become the shareholders. Weird idea, no?
I have an RS/6000 box that runs AIX. A few years ago I reinstalled AIX on it using an external CD-ROM drive over a serial console. One of the Microchannel cards in it has the Power1 Chipset. It also has Microchannel SCSI and various other I/O cards on it. It's not joke hardware running OS/2 with an x86 processor. It's the real thing, not a run-to-proprietary-becuz-we-had-to PC clone.
It's totally different from IBM shoveling their 'IBM PC' business onto proprietary hardware and x86 on a microchannel buss design. They did that with the 'PC' to run away from the ISA buss which they had lost control of. They could have gone EISA, they could have done any number of other things. They chose to run off onto a proprietary path because they were afraid of the competition.
You weren't supposed to use it like a '101 Electronics Projects' cookbook.
I've never used anything but the first edition. It did become a 'rockstar' book, and it's possible later editions went south.
It's a 'survey' book similar to taking a 'survey' course in any topic.
It may be sometimes slightly overpraised. Hacks aren't sneered at here on Slashdot, btw.
What do you recommend? It's a book targeted at non-electronics people, i.e. scientists who need a good survey course in applied electronics for practical use in the lab. There aren't many other books like it.