Yes. A really big tent. And under that big tent is a bazzar unlike the one Raymond celebrated. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of haggling small-time merchants, all with their own interests at stake.
A government that is so hostile and polarized that nothing at ALL comes out of congress except for rhetoric is a weakened government that doesn't have the power to meddle in the affairs of the people.
So let's hear it for a congress neatly split exactly 50%/50% by the two leading 'bands' of buffoons called 'politicians.'
"Why is 'voting fraud' being waved in people's faces like a red flag in front of a bull? Because the matador wants to deflect attention from the life-blood being drained from the economy in the form of top-down Federal mandates and out-of-control taxes."
The 2000 Florida vote was counted and recounted numerous times by various organizations all with differing agendas and approaches. Each time algore lost.
The 8088 is only a 'real ugly CPU' if you embrace it the way the market did.
If you were to start completely over, the 8088 can do some really neat things with the small memory model, with lots of hardware memory bank switching. You only get to grab onto 64K of memory at a time, but you can jump all over a 1M memory map using register-based memory bank switching techniques.
Sadly, most people have only ever used it in the horrible crippled ways that IBM implemented it on the PC motherboard. You can't even use the DOS-based tools to do any of the cool things that I describe above.
CP/M was generally for the 8080 processor, though lots of people ran it on Z80 chips, too.
The 8086 port, called CP/M-86, was available for the IBM-PC but never captured the market share that it had on the 8 bit processors. Saying it was 'used with the 8088 processor back before IBM thought of selling PCs' is just completely wrong. IBM sold a 'PC' back then called the IBM 5100 for about $10,000 (which was a lot more money back in 1976 that it is now) that had a big toggle switch on the front to select APL or BASIC and sported a tape cartridge. It was a completely personal computer that you could lift if you had a strong arm.
But anyways, you may just be forgetting some of the relevant details. Not sure why you're comparing the command line interface of computers back then to Windows XP, though. Windows XP actually has a rather powerful command interface compared to any 8-bit machine. There's no 'net' command on a 'Morrow Microdecision' for instance. No 'ftp' command either. 'rundll32' is one HELL of a powerful command-line call from Windows XP on a system sporting the right DLLs.
But anyways. I like my TRS-80 Model 100. And my CP/M systems. Not sure what computer I own is my favorite, but maybe the HP-95LX or my little TRS-80 pocket computer (It's a PC-7, which is still using the same battery, and retaining a BASIC program, that it had when I bought it, used, about five years ago.) For sheer usefulness on the processing-power-required basis, my copy of WordStar 3.3 for MS-DOS is probably the winner, or VisiCalc.
I once brought a package of condoms up to the checkout at a local Walgreens. The cashier, a late-middle-age woman, just left the checkstand and disappeared.
Yes, but this boat will (apparently) have no sails. It's sort of a 'look at me, no hands' exercise carried forward to spending a 1/2 million dollars to say so.
No, I think he is saying that articles like this shouldn't be of much interest to the Slashdot community, since we're not stuck using IE. All these topics are for is to poke fun at Microsoft.
I don't agree that this is the only reason the articles are published (for one thing, Slashdot is stacked with people who claim to be OSS-advocates who are probably browsing the site on their Mom's computer running Win Me and they get sent to their room if they install anything they downloaded on it).
Well, if you want to think that way, everything a chain-saw needs, a motor scooter has. Don't look for motor scooters with a chain-saw bar out front anytime soon...
Wrong. The Blue Background Crash screen in NT 4.0 is what the vast majority of people were referring to. Windows 98/ME do not 'crash' to a blue screen. There are error states where a blue-background screen is displayed, they are all warnings that the machine will exit from (press key to continue.) When Windows 95/98/Me crashes, there's no recovery and there's no debug screen. It's just bye-bye.
It doesn't matter what a bunch of ignorant people say who never ran an 'NT' derived version of Microsoft Windows until XP.
My first generation POWER architecture RS/6000 box boots up for several minutes just displaying status numbers on the alphanumeric LED readout on the box. Since it has no framebuffer in it at all, you simply have to watch the codes as it boots up. Eventually you get an AIX login prompt on the terminal you've connected to the serial console port. If it never gets there you start it again and watch the codes to figure out what's going on.
POWER 1 boxes have a CPU card in them. It's a card with the cluster of chips that make up the CPU.
Windows ME, and 98, and 95 do not have a blue screen of death. There is a blue background crash screen for those 'Operating Environments' but there is near-zero debug information on that screen.
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Yes. A really big tent. And under that big tent is a bazzar unlike the one Raymond celebrated. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of haggling small-time merchants, all with their own interests at stake.
That's what people are calling 'balkanization.'
Hear, hear.
A government that is so hostile and polarized that nothing at ALL comes out of congress except for rhetoric is a weakened government that doesn't have the power to meddle in the affairs of the people.
So let's hear it for a congress neatly split exactly 50%/50% by the two leading 'bands' of buffoons called 'politicians.'
Pick your own example if you don't like mine.
Okay, here's mine:
"Why is 'voting fraud' being waved in people's faces like a red flag in front of a bull? Because the matador wants to deflect attention from the life-blood being drained from the economy in the form of top-down Federal mandates and out-of-control taxes."
I think mine is pretty good.
The 2000 Florida vote was counted and recounted numerous times by various organizations all with differing agendas and approaches. Each time algore lost.
Ummm. Get.
Over.
It.
Well, they can give back a bunch of the money they sucked out of the local coffers, that is.
And people wonder why the need to cut off Big Government at its knees...
That's what capitalism is all about. Too many flies and you die.
So, to bring it all to a head, you are saying that 'capitalism is all about' governments suing 'bad' companies and running them out of business??
The 8088 is only a 'real ugly CPU' if you embrace it the way the market did.
If you were to start completely over, the 8088 can do some really neat things with the small memory model, with lots of hardware memory bank switching. You only get to grab onto 64K of memory at a time, but you can jump all over a 1M memory map using register-based memory bank switching techniques.
Sadly, most people have only ever used it in the horrible crippled ways that IBM implemented it on the PC motherboard. You can't even use the DOS-based tools to do any of the cool things that I describe above.
CP/M was generally for the 8080 processor, though lots of people ran it on Z80 chips, too.
The 8086 port, called CP/M-86, was available for the IBM-PC but never captured the market share that it had on the 8 bit processors. Saying it was 'used with the 8088 processor back before IBM thought of selling PCs' is just completely wrong. IBM sold a 'PC' back then called the IBM 5100 for about $10,000 (which was a lot more money back in 1976 that it is now) that had a big toggle switch on the front to select APL or BASIC and sported a tape cartridge. It was a completely personal computer that you could lift if you had a strong arm.
But anyways, you may just be forgetting some of the relevant details. Not sure why you're comparing the command line interface of computers back then to Windows XP, though. Windows XP actually has a rather powerful command interface compared to any 8-bit machine. There's no 'net' command on a 'Morrow Microdecision' for instance. No 'ftp' command either. 'rundll32' is one HELL of a powerful command-line call from Windows XP on a system sporting the right DLLs.
But anyways. I like my TRS-80 Model 100. And my CP/M systems. Not sure what computer I own is my favorite, but maybe the HP-95LX or my little TRS-80 pocket computer (It's a PC-7, which is still using the same battery, and retaining a BASIC program, that it had when I bought it, used, about five years ago.) For sheer usefulness on the processing-power-required basis, my copy of WordStar 3.3 for MS-DOS is probably the winner, or VisiCalc.
I never bought the LOTR trilogy set. I have my sister's copies, which I read back in about 1974. I liked it and probably will read it again. Some day.
I once brought a package of condoms up to the checkout at a local Walgreens. The cashier, a late-middle-age woman, just left the checkstand and disappeared.
Yes, but this boat will (apparently) have no sails. It's sort of a 'look at me, no hands' exercise carried forward to spending a 1/2 million dollars to say so.
bullshit. there's a setting in the preferences to default your comments to 1, and turn off the +1 for 'karma'.
(and you thought you were gonna bait me into using the +1 to reply to your troll, huh?)
It depends on if you're using a 'portable' 5600 rpm drive, or the higher performance 12000 rpm drive.
What the hell is this 'vim' crap? vi is a 30K binary on my system (NetBSD) not some bloated third-party clone.
No, I think he is saying that articles like this shouldn't be of much interest to the Slashdot community, since we're not stuck using IE. All these topics are for is to poke fun at Microsoft.
I don't agree that this is the only reason the articles are published (for one thing, Slashdot is stacked with people who claim to be OSS-advocates who are probably browsing the site on their Mom's computer running Win Me and they get sent to their room if they install anything they downloaded on it).
You won't be trying what? Posting off-topic side comments with your +2 enabled? You just did it twice in a row.
People: check on 'No Karma Bonus' when posting side comments. Your every word does NOT warrant being made at +2.
Well, to be fair, PCs only exist as limp parodies of the real thing in MacWorld and other Mac-only publications.
How did they get a cool domain like that, anyway?
Any details available on where this ATM with money hanging out of it is located? ;)
Well, if you want to think that way, everything a chain-saw needs, a motor scooter has. Don't look for motor scooters with a chain-saw bar out front anytime soon...
Granted Windows and Linux allow any old binary third-party driver into the kernel that strikes the user's fancy.
None of the others you list are that shoddy.
Wrong. The Blue Background Crash screen in NT 4.0 is what the vast majority of people were referring to. Windows 98/ME do not 'crash' to a blue screen. There are error states where a blue-background screen is displayed, they are all warnings that the machine will exit from (press key to continue.) When Windows 95/98/Me crashes, there's no recovery and there's no debug screen. It's just bye-bye.
It doesn't matter what a bunch of ignorant people say who never ran an 'NT' derived version of Microsoft Windows until XP.
Is the tag a little bitmap of Tipper Gore's face?
My first generation POWER architecture RS/6000 box boots up for several minutes just displaying status numbers on the alphanumeric LED readout on the box. Since it has no framebuffer in it at all, you simply have to watch the codes as it boots up. Eventually you get an AIX login prompt on the terminal you've connected to the serial console port. If it never gets there you start it again and watch the codes to figure out what's going on.
POWER 1 boxes have a CPU card in them. It's a card with the cluster of chips that make up the CPU.
Windows ME, and 98, and 95 do not have a blue screen of death. There is a blue background crash screen for those 'Operating Environments' but there is near-zero debug information on that screen.
It is NOT a BSOD.