For example, I don't think I've seen much discussion about the raw data about the health effects of mercury, lead, etc, yet I don't really see anyone arguing that we should halt all consideration of pollution laws precisely for that reason
Arsenic is a better substance to examine. Shortly before Dubya become president, new methods of measuring even smaller amounts of arsenic were devised. Everybody knows that this means that new even more restrictive standards for arsenic amounts in drinking water should thus be established. A few people asked how much was enough, but they were obvious shills for the dubya and nobody needs to pay them any mind.
Asbestos is another example. It's bad stuff and shouldn't be used anymore. But the opportunists used the frenzy about asbestos exposure to develop a whole new industry of moon-suit companies to go and whip all the asbestos up into the air. It could have been identified, contained, and dealt with as buildings became obsolete or needed renovation. But those big cleanup operations saw the opportunity to 'clean up' and so thousands of public buildings were condemned. Representatives from the Building Trade are always eager to find new business, so it's a win-win for everybody but the taxpayers.
Yes, in a future where we are 'in a room full of twisty passages' they unfortunately won't be all alike. Or they will, but only at the lowest possible layer.
Where 'things are going' better not be mandatory implants. But they likely won't need to be mandatory. The little brats can be properly conditioned to walk everywhere with something running Linux cupped to their ear....
OS/2 1.0 was from Microsoft (not IBM, though I think there may have been an IBM-branded version, too) and a text-only system.
I worked in a major company in 1998 that still had a lot of development going on in embedded OS/2. By then it was an aging, stinking corpse. The software engineers had to have two PCs in their cubes, old OS/2 boxes to develop on and 'doze machines to work with the rest of the company.
You hit 'Y' that many times to confirm all the directory recursion as you felt your regret? Or did you just have the entire filesystem in the root directory of C:?
You mean that the BASIC interpreter that Microsoft coded and sold to MITS, they stole back from MITS? Or did they just have a more open license, as was kinda typical in that day.
If anybody back then was stealing BASIC, it was the computer clubs. Microsoft found themselves selling one copy of BASIC to each User Group, i.e. one copy to each major metropolitan area.
The problem with the Amiga was that it wasn't really a single-processor machine. It had the 68xxx processor, but the rest of it was a big cluster of custom silicon, that bunch of chips with girl's names. That doesn't scale well in the world of the period of the demise of the Amiga, when megahertz kept stepping up incrementally. When a 233 MHz processor came out from Intel, Commodore couldn't roll out Ruth, Wanda, and Stella chips with a corresponding speed increase. (I am certain these aren't the girlish names for the chips, I wasn't enough of an Amiga fan to remember the real names.)
The Amiga was special-purpose with much more special-purpose silicon than anybody could clone. And lord help us if something with specialized chips like that HAD become the dominant platform. We'd all be stuck on some single-sourced monopoly platform. Warren Buffet or some other greedy fuck would have bought Commodore and we'd be dancing his tune.
What are you talking about? The Hercules card was a third-party addon. The Monochrome card on a true-blue IBM is text-only. It has just the amount of memory needed to display 80 x 25 characters. The memory map area you write character data into is exactly the same memory that the 6845 chip uses to throw the characters up on the raster display. Back then memory was really really expensive, so the card only had the 4K of memory required for the 80 x 25 display.
Many people forget that the original IBM-PC motherboards were populated with from one to four rows of 9 16K x 1 DRAM chips. The base configuration was the first row of 16K soldered on the motherboard, the extra three rows were to expand to 64K. You could torque it out to 384K with plug-in cards, but there were only 5 ISA slots so you had to be conservative.
The original MDA (Monochrome Display Adapter) card was multifunction, though. It also had a parallel printer port!
What computer did you have that had an 8086 processor and a CGA monitor?
One of the early 8086 systems, the AT&T 6300, didn't have a CGA monitor. It had a double-res workalike with 400 lines, but it wasn't CGA.
Very few machines in that era except for the AT&T 6300 had an 8086 processor. Most had the 8088, which IBM selected because the 8-bit wide data path keep costs considerably lower in the initial rollout. There's no equivalent to the 8255, 8237, etc. for the 16-bit data bus.
FDISK didn't take long. The low-level formatting you had to perform before FDISK, though, could take quite awhile. If you were using one of the original HD controllers in a real IBM-XT there wasn't even anything displayed on the screen to tell you it was completed... You just had to wait until the light went out on the Hard drive and issue a debug command to read the status register on an I/O port to see if it completed properly. It was easier with the later Western Digital 8-bit controllers that the young whippersnappers had, with the built in text/graphical low-level formatting menu.
No, the biggest part of the reason why CP/M wasn't the default IBM-PC operating system was specifically because of Kildall's personality. He was both laid back and a little arrogant. It took a hustler like Gates to win the deal from IBM. Kildall wouldn't be a borg icon for both reasons: he really couldn't have stricken a deal with IBM, and if he had, his company's output wouldn't have spawned the 'clone wars' the way Microsoft did. We'd probably all still be running shitty PS/2 machines that were crippled 'smart terminals' plugged into IBM mainframes.
I loaded the high speed paper tape reader from a switch-panel bootstrap on a PDP-8 system to get my first college-level programming assignments completed. It was to load the FOCAL interpreter.
I have PC-DOS 1.0. Not just copies of the disks. Original disks and the boxed manual.
And as I've run it, I think that $25,000 was about what Microsoft should have paid for it. They put a whole lot of improvement into 2.1 and 3.1, etc. Never use a dot zero release. 2.0 had weird bugs. 4.0 was an abomination.
A 555 and a handful of capacitors and resistors is significantly more expensive than an 8 pin PIC controller with internal RC clock. All you need is the PIC chip itself, and it replaces the whole messy 555 circuitry.
555 chips are bush-league in the first place. It's a part for chumps to use, because it's ALWAYS more expensive than a dual op-amp (dual op-amps are a penny or so.) When you see a 555 in a chip you know someone clueless was involved.
There are 27 degrees of Freemasonry. Clearly he was a weirdo who just dabbled in it. Freemasonry today is a fairly mainstream community organization. Probably he was only 3rd degree because his fellow Masons had figured out he was a nut and shunned him. The sad thing is, if they had been better Masons they would have helped him out of his social alienation. But there's only so much society can do for isolated weird cranks.
"Terrorist" describes a tactic, not a motivation. For instance, Lenin and Stalin and the Communists before, during, and after the Russian revolution actively discussed, promoted, and engaged in terrorism. You can read it right in their "Collected Works" as officially published.
Terrorism is a tactic, and sometimes becomes an ideology in and of itself.
I fail to what, at all, it has to do with a motivation.
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I think they meant the people like you.
Arsenic is a better substance to examine. Shortly before Dubya become president, new methods of measuring even smaller amounts of arsenic were devised. Everybody knows that this means that new even more restrictive standards for arsenic amounts in drinking water should thus be established. A few people asked how much was enough, but they were obvious shills for the dubya and nobody needs to pay them any mind.
Asbestos is another example. It's bad stuff and shouldn't be used anymore. But the opportunists used the frenzy about asbestos exposure to develop a whole new industry of moon-suit companies to go and whip all the asbestos up into the air. It could have been identified, contained, and dealt with as buildings became obsolete or needed renovation. But those big cleanup operations saw the opportunity to 'clean up' and so thousands of public buildings were condemned. Representatives from the Building Trade are always eager to find new business, so it's a win-win for everybody but the taxpayers.
Common sense never wins in these sort of issues.
It should be legal to brain racists with a fungo bat.
Why should it be legal to hit Al Sharpton with a bat?
You're thinking more about the Zynga side of things. Though the zuck has his thumb in that pie as well.
Yes, in a future where we are 'in a room full of twisty passages' they unfortunately won't be all alike. Or they will, but only at the lowest possible layer.
Where 'things are going' better not be mandatory implants. But they likely won't need to be mandatory. The little brats can be properly conditioned to walk everywhere with something running Linux cupped to their ear....
Really? You mean all the new OSes run on widely varied platforms? And Apple didn't actually give up and switch over to x86?
We don't pray to the same gods, I guess.
OS/2 1.0 was from Microsoft (not IBM, though I think there may have been an IBM-branded version, too) and a text-only system.
I worked in a major company in 1998 that still had a lot of development going on in embedded OS/2. By then it was an aging, stinking corpse. The software engineers had to have two PCs in their cubes, old OS/2 boxes to develop on and 'doze machines to work with the rest of the company.
You hit 'Y' that many times to confirm all the directory recursion as you felt your regret? Or did you just have the entire filesystem in the root directory of C:?
You mean that the BASIC interpreter that Microsoft coded and sold to MITS, they stole back from MITS? Or did they just have a more open license, as was kinda typical in that day.
If anybody back then was stealing BASIC, it was the computer clubs. Microsoft found themselves selling one copy of BASIC to each User Group, i.e. one copy to each major metropolitan area.
The problem with the Amiga was that it wasn't really a single-processor machine. It had the 68xxx processor, but the rest of it was a big cluster of custom silicon, that bunch of chips with girl's names. That doesn't scale well in the world of the period of the demise of the Amiga, when megahertz kept stepping up incrementally. When a 233 MHz processor came out from Intel, Commodore couldn't roll out Ruth, Wanda, and Stella chips with a corresponding speed increase. (I am certain these aren't the girlish names for the chips, I wasn't enough of an Amiga fan to remember the real names.)
The Amiga was special-purpose with much more special-purpose silicon than anybody could clone. And lord help us if something with specialized chips like that HAD become the dominant platform. We'd all be stuck on some single-sourced monopoly platform. Warren Buffet or some other greedy fuck would have bought Commodore and we'd be dancing his tune.
What are you talking about? The Hercules card was a third-party addon. The Monochrome card on a true-blue IBM is text-only. It has just the amount of memory needed to display 80 x 25 characters. The memory map area you write character data into is exactly the same memory that the 6845 chip uses to throw the characters up on the raster display. Back then memory was really really expensive, so the card only had the 4K of memory required for the 80 x 25 display.
Many people forget that the original IBM-PC motherboards were populated with from one to four rows of 9 16K x 1 DRAM chips. The base configuration was the first row of 16K soldered on the motherboard, the extra three rows were to expand to 64K. You could torque it out to 384K with plug-in cards, but there were only 5 ISA slots so you had to be conservative.
The original MDA (Monochrome Display Adapter) card was multifunction, though. It also had a parallel printer port!
What computer did you have that had an 8086 processor and a CGA monitor?
One of the early 8086 systems, the AT&T 6300, didn't have a CGA monitor. It had a double-res workalike with 400 lines, but it wasn't CGA.
Very few machines in that era except for the AT&T 6300 had an 8086 processor. Most had the 8088, which IBM selected because the 8-bit wide data path keep costs considerably lower in the initial rollout. There's no equivalent to the 8255, 8237, etc. for the 16-bit data bus.
Fortunately, there is Linux on most devices these days.
Linux is just a continuation of 'good enough' actually. There's no top-to-bottom redesign there. Just kludging together something kinda like ol' UNIX.
FDISK didn't take long. The low-level formatting you had to perform before FDISK, though, could take quite awhile. If you were using one of the original HD controllers in a real IBM-XT there wasn't even anything displayed on the screen to tell you it was completed... You just had to wait until the light went out on the Hard drive and issue a debug command to read the status register on an I/O port to see if it completed properly. It was easier with the later Western Digital 8-bit controllers that the young whippersnappers had, with the built in text/graphical low-level formatting menu.
No, the biggest part of the reason why CP/M wasn't the default IBM-PC operating system was specifically because of Kildall's personality. He was both laid back and a little arrogant. It took a hustler like Gates to win the deal from IBM. Kildall wouldn't be a borg icon for both reasons: he really couldn't have stricken a deal with IBM, and if he had, his company's output wouldn't have spawned the 'clone wars' the way Microsoft did. We'd probably all still be running shitty PS/2 machines that were crippled 'smart terminals' plugged into IBM mainframes.
I loaded the high speed paper tape reader from a switch-panel bootstrap on a PDP-8 system to get my first college-level programming assignments completed. It was to load the FOCAL interpreter.
I have PC-DOS 1.0. Not just copies of the disks. Original disks and the boxed manual.
And as I've run it, I think that $25,000 was about what Microsoft should have paid for it. They put a whole lot of improvement into 2.1 and 3.1, etc. Never use a dot zero release. 2.0 had weird bugs. 4.0 was an abomination.
That's right. Everything in life is subjective.
Pass me that bong, dude.
Cue a gazillion posts by depressed old farts noticing that they are, in fact, old farts.
Who'd depressed? I got to be an adult through the 80's, 90's and the 00's. You young punks get to clean up the shit from our partying.
Perhaps the fine folks at Altium can provide a free copy of OrCAD to the developers and/or the documentation needed.
In 'the professional world' would anybody even be allowed to share their schematics?
A 555 and a handful of capacitors and resistors is significantly more expensive than an 8 pin PIC controller with internal RC clock. All you need is the PIC chip itself, and it replaces the whole messy 555 circuitry.
555 chips are bush-league in the first place. It's a part for chumps to use, because it's ALWAYS more expensive than a dual op-amp (dual op-amps are a penny or so.) When you see a 555 in a chip you know someone clueless was involved.
Sounds like a typical conservative Christian politician to me
Such ignorance. Grow up, and acknowledge that your ideological opponents are not the 'bad guys' in some comic book fantasy.
There are 27 degrees of Freemasonry. Clearly he was a weirdo who just dabbled in it. Freemasonry today is a fairly mainstream community organization. Probably he was only 3rd degree because his fellow Masons had figured out he was a nut and shunned him. The sad thing is, if they had been better Masons they would have helped him out of his social alienation. But there's only so much society can do for isolated weird cranks.
"Terrorist" describes a tactic, not a motivation. For instance, Lenin and Stalin and the Communists before, during, and after the Russian revolution actively discussed, promoted, and engaged in terrorism. You can read it right in their "Collected Works" as officially published.
Terrorism is a tactic, and sometimes becomes an ideology in and of itself.
I fail to what, at all, it has to do with a motivation.
Fox news scares me even more than any type of terrorist combined.
I take it you live in a henhouse.