Because Woz was the kind of guy who could do the whole design using just TTL gates and a little glue logic, then simplify it down to the fewest possible parts. On a dinner napkin.
The use of the 6502 was a horrendous choice, it's the 8 bit chip with the worst architecture of the possible parts they had to pick from. But it was cheap and easier to sample at the time.
The TRS-80 ran memory and data bus right up into the keyboard matrix. Almost completely non-buffered. It was a horrendous kludge in that regard. I wouldn't call the memory mapping of the TRS-80 'correct.' It could only address 16K of memory without using kludge multiplexing.
In the '1984' commercial that launched the Mac? The big face on the screen was Steve Jobs.
He grew up watching the Wizard of Oz once a year on television (we all did from that generation.) He identified with 'The Great and Powerful Oz' scene the most.
To extend the metaphor a little, your homework assignment is to figure out who Toto is.
Real slashdotters punch out their comments on paper tape before inserting them into the paper tape reader to upload them. There's a ratchet on the paper tape reader, the paper can't go backwards.
You're one of the most outspoken pro-Microsoft shills on Slashdot. And you're trying to define what is a 'win for Linux'??
The school incident cited could have been a learning experience. The kids could have been gathered up and they could have talked about respect for other people's systems, and to ask Dad before wiping the hard drive on the family computer. The kid giving out the Linux CDs could have been given an opportunity to demo how to use the disks without wiping out whatever else was on the system.
The problem at that time (1976) was that personal computers were centered on user group communities. Every city or region had a user group. And they shared their software freely. I'm not talking just about the software they themselves created. Microsoft found that they could only sell one copy of Microsoft BASIC to each user group.
It was a problem, and the thrust of Gates' letter was that unless something changed, nobody would ever be able to produce any commercial software.
Getting rid of Julian would be the best thing Wikileaks could do. It's an organization with a mission, right? Not the support group for a personality cult.
Actually, in Nuclear Power Plants most connectors and any interference-fit electrical connections at all are pronibited. If you need a lamp on a desk, electricians are employed to run condit and all the connections along the way are soldered.
100% is an expensive figure to be throwing around.
Do you have the source code for the multiple embedded controllers in your hard drive? How about the ones in your nic and your graphics card? What about the ones in your keyboard and mouse?
What killed OS/2 was that it had Win16 compatability, which let a lot of air out of the tires of any vendor tempted to build a native port of their app to OS/2. Then Win32 came along and the apps that would run on OS/2 slowly aged and faded away.
When the SI system was established, back during the French Revolution, they also started the calendar over at year one again. And did further irrelevant things. You know, all the sorts of things you do when you've achieved total power and can be arbitrary.
Are you really, seriously going to maintain that voting for Kucinich would have been a vote more for 'a new center' than Obama. Kuninich is a left-end kook.
(*here in the region where I live, the Crown Royal is kept up behind the counter by the cash registers. The regular booze is out on the shelves. Crown Royal is the white trash beverage of choice)
The problem with that scenario, is that the poor man went out and spent $18 Friday night getting drunk. And did the same the last two Fridays in a row.
Really, it's no coincidence that stupid people are often poor, nor that poor people often make pitiful choices that lead to them... continuing to remain poor.
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Because Woz was the kind of guy who could do the whole design using just TTL gates and a little glue logic, then simplify it down to the fewest possible parts. On a dinner napkin.
The use of the 6502 was a horrendous choice, it's the 8 bit chip with the worst architecture of the possible parts they had to pick from. But it was cheap and easier to sample at the time.
Oh my god.
The TRS-80 ran memory and data bus right up into the keyboard matrix. Almost completely non-buffered. It was a horrendous kludge in that regard. I wouldn't call the memory mapping of the TRS-80 'correct.' It could only address 16K of memory without using kludge multiplexing.
Well MacOS didn't do any kind of multitasking at all until OS X, whereas Windows was Protected Mode long before XP.
He stepped out of the spotlight, but seemingly left a void there....
But Kentucky Fried Chicken survived the death of Colonel Sanders, so maybe Apple will be alright, too.
Well, you have to consider that you're on the apple.slashdot.org domain. That matters more than many people think.
This isn't real slashdot.
Obama better hope he doesn't need a organ transplant. *ducks*
He could while away the hours Conferring with the flowers Consulting with the rain...
In the '1984' commercial that launched the Mac? The big face on the screen was Steve Jobs.
He grew up watching the Wizard of Oz once a year on television (we all did from that generation.) He identified with 'The Great and Powerful Oz' scene the most.
To extend the metaphor a little, your homework assignment is to figure out who Toto is.
Real slashdotters punch out their comments on paper tape before inserting them into the paper tape reader to upload them. There's a ratchet on the paper tape reader, the paper can't go backwards.
Many, many people of considerably more wealth and power than Steve Jobs have died. It's kinda inevitable.
There's only so much that money can buy, and someone like Jobs has that to face in the end. Just like the rest of us.
That's not medication, and probably the only reason you have a subscription for them is that way your insurance will pay for them.
The word 'revolutionized' in the sense that you're using it is pure marketing hype.
Drill down a little further and explain what you mean by the term. You aren't giving us enough to do anything with except stand in awe, or whatever.
This one is more apt.
That is not a win for Linux.
You're one of the most outspoken pro-Microsoft shills on Slashdot. And you're trying to define what is a 'win for Linux'??
The school incident cited could have been a learning experience. The kids could have been gathered up and they could have talked about respect for other people's systems, and to ask Dad before wiping the hard drive on the family computer. The kid giving out the Linux CDs could have been given an opportunity to demo how to use the disks without wiping out whatever else was on the system.
The problem at that time (1976) was that personal computers were centered on user group communities. Every city or region had a user group. And they shared their software freely. I'm not talking just about the software they themselves created. Microsoft found that they could only sell one copy of Microsoft BASIC to each user group.
It was a problem, and the thrust of Gates' letter was that unless something changed, nobody would ever be able to produce any commercial software.
Is that link to a site associated with the radio program Democracy Now?
I used to enjoy listening to Democracy Now, which is produced, or was produced, by Pacifica.
It's kind of the diametrical opposite of Rush Limbaugh, in other words the functional equivalent.
Getting rid of Julian would be the best thing Wikileaks could do. It's an organization with a mission, right? Not the support group for a personality cult.
Actually, in Nuclear Power Plants most connectors and any interference-fit electrical connections at all are pronibited. If you need a lamp on a desk, electricians are employed to run condit and all the connections along the way are soldered.
100% is an expensive figure to be throwing around.
Do you have the source code for the multiple embedded controllers in your hard drive? How about the ones in your nic and your graphics card? What about the ones in your keyboard and mouse?
What killed OS/2 was that it had Win16 compatability, which let a lot of air out of the tires of any vendor tempted to build a native port of their app to OS/2. Then Win32 came along and the apps that would run on OS/2 slowly aged and faded away.
Only if they build a Mausoleum on the Apple Campus.
Not meaning to be ghoulish. Just sayin'.
When the SI system was established, back during the French Revolution, they also started the calendar over at year one again. And did further irrelevant things. You know, all the sorts of things you do when you've achieved total power and can be arbitrary.
Are you really, seriously going to maintain that voting for Kucinich would have been a vote more for 'a new center' than Obama. Kuninich is a left-end kook.
Sorry that we had to focus from communism to drugs to terrorism. Uh, I mean, we have always been at war with terrorism.
They're all kind of the same threat. Lenin and other 'founding Communist ideologues' openly advocated terrorism as a tactic to work toward Communism.
Are you implying that Zeke's weekly investment in Crown Royal* isn't a good one?
(*here in the region where I live, the Crown Royal is kept up behind the counter by the cash registers. The regular booze is out on the shelves. Crown Royal is the white trash beverage of choice)
The problem with that scenario, is that the poor man went out and spent $18 Friday night getting drunk. And did the same the last two Fridays in a row.
Really, it's no coincidence that stupid people are often poor, nor that poor people often make pitiful choices that lead to them... continuing to remain poor.