Unlike most commercial Unixes, it's never really had any cutting edge features (unless you consider "runs on x86 hardware" to be cutting edge, which it may have been twenty-odd years ago)
Well, 30 years ago Microsoft Xenix supported five users concurrently on an 8086 processor with 512K of RAM. The users connected to serial ports on the box and used dumb terminals. It's a somewhat impressive accomplishment. I still have one of them, an Altos 586.
Microsoft sold Xenix, actually, they didn't buy it. Xenix was originally a Microsoft product. They ported Unix to the 8086 processor back in the late 70's and marketed it as Xenix. But they quit selling it entirely and split SCO off to be a separate company. The story goes that they were tired of selling a 'licensed' product and paying Unix royalties. I have a machine here that runs Microsoft Xenix, an Altos 586 box.
The people who Madoff ripped off thought they were participating in a 'hush hush get rich' scheme. Basically, they thought they were part of the 'winning' group in the hustle. They are no more worthy of our sympathy than any other rich investor who thinks they can throw their money into a market and reap huge profits with little effort on their own part.
Actually, there is a sound theory out there that people with mid-level intelligence and education are the most prone to zealous ideology. Not your doctorates, not the top people in any field, it's the middle people. Hack technicians and second-rate engineers live frustrating lives, and are prone to fall into belief systems that simplify life and explain everything. Hence the rise of Marxism, the Klan, the John Birch Society among the mediocre.
If you're flunking out of calculus, going out onto the mall and actually reading the crap on those leaflets they are handing out has it's appeal. Soon you may be one of the people handing them out, then you're part of a 'movement' that gives your life new meaning, etc.
Not really because the IT guys have to go out their way to do just that,
They have to go out of their way to set up the mouse/mousepad anywhere at all. It's no more or less an effort to put it on one side or the other. Naturally, for me, it should go on the left side.
If a Windows developer can write the tools, a Linux user given time and the accounting insight could clone them
Get back to us when it's happened, not while it's wishful thinking.
I've run Linux off and on since 1993, though I went BSD for my freenix needs for the most part before the Millenium.
People don't care about holy wars and crusades. Also the most important data on a PC, the part that can't be reinstalled off read-only media, is a user's home directory. Which is just as vulnerable on any system where users are allowed to make productive use of a desktop system.
Not really 'friends' in the sense we learned of as children. Not even 'friends' in the sense of running into the same guy selling cool test equipment at the swapmeet each year. More the all Zucked up kind of faux-friends.
You know what's really not fair? Letting the students who don't know shit pass without knowing how to write or do arithmetic without electronic aids. It's not fair to the other students who have a fucking clue, and it's not fair to the students who apparently have coasted along doing the bare minimum that the past teachers thought was acceptable. Both groups of students deserve better. Most colleges have remedial courses for those who were 'severely disadvantaged' by 'the system' or whatever excuse they're using for not being up to snuff.
Not that I'm an MS fan but people who pirate software these days when there are usually very good legally free alternatives are hypocrites who deserve all they get.
What makes them hypocritical? To be hypocritical they'd have to start their own software company and loudly complain when other people pirated their product.
Nope. Attitudes like ours is what started the American and French revolutions.
The French Revolution rapidly degenerated. It got really, really stinky. The American Revolution wasn't really a revolution. More of an anti-colonial thing.
What is Norton Commander (Midnight Commander) a clone of?
I know those old DOS shells, my favorite was DirMagic which came on a free floppy from ZD.
But Midnight Commander is just a direct clone of Norton Commander.
The whole GNU toolchain is nothing more than replication with a few extra features pasted on. Which is fine, though usually not as good as the BSD variant.
I'm not aware of any vintage calculators, anywhere, that used an 8008 or 6502 processor and ran on a 9 volt battery. They all used dedicated calculator chips way back into the mid 70's. The first digital desktop calculators did use microprocessors (that's what the 4004 was designed for) but were definitely NOT battery operated.
You could buy 'Four Function Calculator' chips at Radio Shack back then.
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Unlike most commercial Unixes, it's never really had any cutting edge features (unless you consider "runs on x86 hardware" to be cutting edge, which it may have been twenty-odd years ago)
Well, 30 years ago Microsoft Xenix supported five users concurrently on an 8086 processor with 512K of RAM. The users connected to serial ports on the box and used dumb terminals. It's a somewhat impressive accomplishment. I still have one of them, an Altos 586.
Microsoft sold Xenix, actually, they didn't buy it. Xenix was originally a Microsoft product. They ported Unix to the 8086 processor back in the late 70's and marketed it as Xenix. But they quit selling it entirely and split SCO off to be a separate company. The story goes that they were tired of selling a 'licensed' product and paying Unix royalties. I have a machine here that runs Microsoft Xenix, an Altos 586 box.
The people who Madoff ripped off thought they were participating in a 'hush hush get rich' scheme. Basically, they thought they were part of the 'winning' group in the hustle. They are no more worthy of our sympathy than any other rich investor who thinks they can throw their money into a market and reap huge profits with little effort on their own part.
Dude, you misspelled 'Southern Democrat' up there.
Actually, there is a sound theory out there that people with mid-level intelligence and education are the most prone to zealous ideology. Not your doctorates, not the top people in any field, it's the middle people. Hack technicians and second-rate engineers live frustrating lives, and are prone to fall into belief systems that simplify life and explain everything. Hence the rise of Marxism, the Klan, the John Birch Society among the mediocre.
If you're flunking out of calculus, going out onto the mall and actually reading the crap on those leaflets they are handing out has it's appeal. Soon you may be one of the people handing them out, then you're part of a 'movement' that gives your life new meaning, etc.
Madoff was a highly skilled social engineer.
Did Paul Graham witness his wife having anal gangbang with Larry Ellison and Bill Gates?
Does she even own the strapon and harness?
Not really because the IT guys have to go out their way to do just that,
They have to go out of their way to set up the mouse/mousepad anywhere at all. It's no more or less an effort to put it on one side or the other. Naturally, for me, it should go on the left side.
Sure, they could write the malware, but they would also have to walk users through apt-get installing it.
Is file execution turned off in all user-writable directories on the various Linux-based OSes these days? How do people run the ls command??
If a Windows developer can write the tools, a Linux user given time and the accounting insight could clone them
Get back to us when it's happened, not while it's wishful thinking.
I've run Linux off and on since 1993, though I went BSD for my freenix needs for the most part before the Millenium.
People don't care about holy wars and crusades. Also the most important data on a PC, the part that can't be reinstalled off read-only media, is a user's home directory. Which is just as vulnerable on any system where users are allowed to make productive use of a desktop system.
Not really 'friends' in the sense we learned of as children. Not even 'friends' in the sense of running into the same guy selling cool test equipment at the swapmeet each year. More the all Zucked up kind of faux-friends.
I remember when Slashdot wasn't assumed to be an 'IT' and 'programming' site. Chips, and Dips, even somtimes chips in DIP packages.
I can go elsewhere for 'IT' news and discussion.
Minix runs in Bochs on my old 486 with NT 4.0 installed.
Doggone it.
I walk away to do some soldering on a breadboard, and come back, thinking I am still reading the Steve Jobs story.
Damn.
Linus Torvalds is not marking scum. For goodness sake.
Let's not do this with programmers. Please.
Steve Jobs isn't a 'programmer.'
He's marketing scum.
The same could be said about charlatans like Barry Sotero.
Back in the 80's while he was dealing coke, he never had any problems.
You know what's really not fair? Letting the students who don't know shit pass without knowing how to write or do arithmetic without electronic aids. It's not fair to the other students who have a fucking clue, and it's not fair to the students who apparently have coasted along doing the bare minimum that the past teachers thought was acceptable. Both groups of students deserve better. Most colleges have remedial courses for those who were 'severely disadvantaged' by 'the system' or whatever excuse they're using for not being up to snuff.
Not that I'm an MS fan but people who pirate software these days when there are usually very good legally free alternatives are hypocrites who deserve all they get.
What makes them hypocritical? To be hypocritical they'd have to start their own software company and loudly complain when other people pirated their product.
Nope. Attitudes like ours is what started the American and French revolutions.
The French Revolution rapidly degenerated. It got really, really stinky. The American Revolution wasn't really a revolution. More of an anti-colonial thing.
What is Norton Commander (Midnight Commander) a clone of?
I know those old DOS shells, my favorite was DirMagic which came on a free floppy from ZD.
But Midnight Commander is just a direct clone of Norton Commander.
The whole GNU toolchain is nothing more than replication with a few extra features pasted on. Which is fine, though usually not as good as the BSD variant.
They should give them a chance at a rare new breed of sheep if they are voluntarily sterilized.
I'm not aware of any vintage calculators, anywhere, that used an 8008 or 6502 processor and ran on a 9 volt battery. They all used dedicated calculator chips way back into the mid 70's. The first digital desktop calculators did use microprocessors (that's what the 4004 was designed for) but were definitely NOT battery operated.
You could buy 'Four Function Calculator' chips at Radio Shack back then.
You're stuck on that track pretty bad, dude. Do yourself a favor and nudge the tone arm.
Or Windows NT 4.0 x86/PPC/Alpha.