If you really look HARD you can probably find a Pentium daughterboard that will plug into your 80286 processor socket.
However, that means you would need to have a pin-grid-array '286 motherboard, whereas most '286 processors shipped with PQFP.
Sorry.
But good luck. You can probably fit one of those ITX motherboards in your Leading Edge Model D case. You'll have to rewire the power supply connector, though.
The Linux emulation layers are in pkgsrc. It's really easy to install them for that reason.
I haven't messed around with Linux in a few years. I do know there are twisty passages in all directions (so damned many 'distros',) and that xyzzy won't bring me anywhere useful.
if display space in Fry's is a measure of interest and systems moved, then Intel's current 80% number is only going to fall as their old systems die and people go out to replace them.
Display space at Fry's, however, is not a good measure.
Most people who purchase computers never look inside the box. That the component sellers promote AMD parts, and have for years, is part of AMD's success. But the real statistic that matters is the number of chips are being shipped market-wide. And AMD is still far behind there.
My two newest motherboards have AMD processors, but it was a 'blah' decision, made because those are the motherboard/processor combos that Fry's 'blows out the door' for $79. I viewed my most-recent-before-that purchase of AMD processors a grave mistake, they were K6-2s.
Why? Is the box with the AMD processor easier to pull a graphics card out of? Why are you picking choosing a graphics card already installed in someone else's computer?
I bought ApplixWare, too. Back in the day, to celebrate the Windows 98 release, I bought as many commerical Linux software packages as I could find. I got boxed ApplixWare, and also SWiM Motif. I used both for quite awhile. I haven't tried, but it would probably be possible to install that old ApplixWare on top of a Linux emulation layer on my main Desktop (NetBSD) now. Which is an irony, as it would be MUCH more work to get the Applix binaries to run on a modern Linux.
I would love to live in the world where I could simply believe in Santa Claus, and not have to carry around keys and maintain locks and other security measures...
Sounds like a messy migration, though, with layers of crap and croft, and never the certainty that the 'active X' is gonna work through all the emulation layers. And it sounds marvelously easy for Microsoft to 'break' every six months with 'further evolution' of 'active X' and their always-changing APIs.
I live in the Midwest in the United States. While my house is made of wood, not bricks, it was build before 1900. When the guys came to install the satellite dish, they were astounded at how long it took them to drill through the baseboard to run the cable through. Old growth timbers, man, and thick ones.
No way I am gonna live in a flakewood house made of glueboard, with formaldyhide from the glue wafting through the air.
Please leave the programming to the programmers and not any average joe who thinks that being big on sourceforge makes em cool.
You are letting your 'inflated ego' concept of 'cool hacker coder' get the best of you. In a perfect world, kids would be hacking code by the third grade, and contributing to Open Source software projects would be like volunteering to help clean up litter, or any other community service practice.
'Leave the programming to the programmers' sounds like someone trying to defend the notion of 'a profession.'
People ARE buying windows because of IE - if it didn't have a web browser, and all the competition did, more people would probably be using other operating systems.
'come with the operating system' can mean a browser that is far less tightly bundled with the OS. With Windows 95, for instance, the IE browser was often 'bundled' with Win95 on a separate CDROM.
You are saying that if Windows didn't have a default-installed Web Browser, people wouldn't 'buy' it? The browser could trivially be de-linked. There could be six icons in the default Windows install that each prompted the installation of various Web Browsers from third parties.
The other Operating Systems options don't include a tightly integrated impossible-to-strip-out web browser. They have the various browsers made available to them that are separate apps. Just as Windows would if IE wasn't an integrated component. So your arguement doesn't hold.
Microsoft is undoubtedly a nasty company in many regards, a bully in the software industry. But Netscape, in the way the company was evolving, was just another nasty company with the smug assuption that they 'owned' the web market. Andreessen got up at the podium on a number of occasions and 'waved a red flag' at the Microsoft bull, boasting that web apps would take away Microsoft's desktop dominance. And Netscape was moving in that direction, adding proprietary tags and features to their browser that were tightly integrated with their Web Server technology.
In one sense, Microsoft stomping Netscape saved us from the Monster that Netscape was becoming. Which is an obvious mixed blessing, because of the Monster Microsoft already was.
But let's get over the warm-fuzzy feelings for Netscape. They were not a non-profit, and their code was very closed. In actuality, we probably have Microsoft to thank for the open-sourcing of Netscape (which, of course, just served as a base and impetus for Mozilla, as the rotting Netscape code had mostly to be thrown away).
Some of us like walking alone in the dark, though.
(disclaimer- this past weekend I mowed myself about a quarter mile running path in the field out behind the house because I want to get into shape by running a little)
I wasn't going to brand a whole 'genere' of popular music as bad. In fact, I once purchased a Neneh Cherry album (on vinyl) and remember liking it. And I like 'Yellowman' who is a Jamaican rapper, though not anything at all like modern 'rap' music.
You're just trying to be 'totally modern.' Here's a hint:
There are and always will be just scads and scads of good material published in the past that nobody takes the time to digitize.
Most of the 'paperless office' flakes in business have dried up and blown away. Thank goodness, though I do hate the chore of swamping out all the paper debris from my cubicle. I'd hate it more if the IT 'tards could discard important stuff at will because it was 'captive' on their lousy Windows servers.
I have recordings of music that 'sound good' that are encoded on acetate disks that I have to spin at 78 rpm to listen to. If you're listening to a genere of music where the playback has to be absolutely squeaky perfect for you to enjoy it, it's debatable if you're even listening to the music. You're just admiring the technique.
Added to which, some of the really GREAT music of the past can be enjoyed without listening to it at all. L. Beethoven was stone deaf by the time he composed his Ninth Symphony. Don't you think he could 'hear' the music in his head just by scanning the score visually? Some of the rest of us can 'play back' music that way as well.
It's just crappy music, if it can't be enjoyed on many levels.
but since my research area is not Operating Systems, it is unlikely that I will ever write an OS book. I would advise you to think before you make such claims, it makes you look like you really don't know what you are talking about.
Most first-year Calculus professors aren't engaged in research of the concepts taught in first year calc courses. Yet where possible many of them teach from their own book. I would advise you to think before you make your claims. It makes you look like you're an entrenched part of a profiteering interest group.
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*ix ??
What the hell? You're a big Minix fan? Or is it Irix you're praising??
Staying on top of things, doing your best to be brutally honest, and contributing, is the way forward.
Whoah! Did you construct that sentence by hitting three or four macro keys??
Also, well-written books on COBOL will sell for more on eBay than well-written books on Java.
What about my NetBSD/mac68k machine? How about my NetBSD/mips machine? I won't even raise the possibility of my SGI IRIX machine.
Nope. Go ahead and praise the virtues of java if you like. Don't pooh-pooh the issue of it's closed nature and think you will get away with it.
You can defeat a 'dictionary search' cracking bot that way, too.
I guess.
Telnet is deprecated as insecure.
Even on your home network, there could be a spyware sniffer.
At certain points in history. At other points in history, businesses had to pay for the Netscape browser.
If you really look HARD you can probably find a Pentium daughterboard that will plug into your 80286 processor socket.
However, that means you would need to have a pin-grid-array '286 motherboard, whereas most '286 processors shipped with PQFP.
Sorry.
But good luck. You can probably fit one of those ITX motherboards in your Leading Edge Model D case. You'll have to rewire the power supply connector, though.
The Linux emulation layers are in pkgsrc. It's really easy to install them for that reason.
I haven't messed around with Linux in a few years. I do know there are twisty passages in all directions (so damned many 'distros',) and that xyzzy won't bring me anywhere useful.
if display space in Fry's is a measure of interest and systems moved, then Intel's current 80% number is only going to fall as their old systems die and people go out to replace them.
Display space at Fry's, however, is not a good measure.
Most people who purchase computers never look inside the box. That the component sellers promote AMD parts, and have for years, is part of AMD's success. But the real statistic that matters is the number of chips are being shipped market-wide. And AMD is still far behind there.
My two newest motherboards have AMD processors, but it was a 'blah' decision, made because those are the motherboard/processor combos that Fry's 'blows out the door' for $79. I viewed my most-recent-before-that purchase of AMD processors a grave mistake, they were K6-2s.
Why? Is the box with the AMD processor easier to pull a graphics card out of? Why are you picking choosing a graphics card already installed in someone else's computer?
I bought ApplixWare, too. Back in the day, to celebrate the Windows 98 release, I bought as many commerical Linux software packages as I could find. I got boxed ApplixWare, and also SWiM Motif. I used both for quite awhile. I haven't tried, but it would probably be possible to install that old ApplixWare on top of a Linux emulation layer on my main Desktop (NetBSD) now. Which is an irony, as it would be MUCH more work to get the Applix binaries to run on a modern Linux.
Me, I like being able to tweak my .Xresources as deeply and fully as I desire.
xterm*scrollbar:
versus
Xterm*scrollbar:
and all that.
Oh, sorry. I shouldn't be in this conversation, I guess.
I would love to live in the world where I could simply believe in Santa Claus, and not have to carry around keys and maintain locks and other security measures...
Sounds like a messy migration, though, with layers of crap and croft, and never the certainty that the 'active X' is gonna work through all the emulation layers. And it sounds marvelously easy for Microsoft to 'break' every six months with 'further evolution' of 'active X' and their always-changing APIs.
I live in the Midwest in the United States. While my house is made of wood, not bricks, it was build before 1900. When the guys came to install the satellite dish, they were astounded at how long it took them to drill through the baseboard to run the cable through. Old growth timbers, man, and thick ones.
No way I am gonna live in a flakewood house made of glueboard, with formaldyhide from the glue wafting through the air.
Please leave the programming to the programmers and not any average joe who thinks that being big on sourceforge makes em cool.
You are letting your 'inflated ego' concept of 'cool hacker coder' get the best of you. In a perfect world, kids would be hacking code by the third grade, and contributing to Open Source software projects would be like volunteering to help clean up litter, or any other community service practice.
'Leave the programming to the programmers' sounds like someone trying to defend the notion of 'a profession.'
Nuh-uh. It isn't that hard.
People ARE buying windows because of IE - if it didn't have a web browser, and all the competition did, more people would probably be using other operating systems.
'come with the operating system' can mean a browser that is far less tightly bundled with the OS. With Windows 95, for instance, the IE browser was often 'bundled' with Win95 on a separate CDROM.
You are saying that if Windows didn't have a default-installed Web Browser, people wouldn't 'buy' it? The browser could trivially be de-linked. There could be six icons in the default Windows install that each prompted the installation of various Web Browsers from third parties.
The other Operating Systems options don't include a tightly integrated impossible-to-strip-out web browser. They have the various browsers made available to them that are separate apps. Just as Windows would if IE wasn't an integrated component. So your arguement doesn't hold.
Microsoft is undoubtedly a nasty company in many regards, a bully in the software industry. But Netscape, in the way the company was evolving, was just another nasty company with the smug assuption that they 'owned' the web market. Andreessen got up at the podium on a number of occasions and 'waved a red flag' at the Microsoft bull, boasting that web apps would take away Microsoft's desktop dominance. And Netscape was moving in that direction, adding proprietary tags and features to their browser that were tightly integrated with their Web Server technology.
In one sense, Microsoft stomping Netscape saved us from the Monster that Netscape was becoming. Which is an obvious mixed blessing, because of the Monster Microsoft already was.
But let's get over the warm-fuzzy feelings for Netscape. They were not a non-profit, and their code was very closed. In actuality, we probably have Microsoft to thank for the open-sourcing of Netscape (which, of course, just served as a base and impetus for Mozilla, as the rotting Netscape code had mostly to be thrown away).
Some of us like walking alone in the dark, though.
(disclaimer- this past weekend I mowed myself about a quarter mile running path in the field out behind the house because I want to get into shape by running a little)
Whereas I am actually The Great And Powerful Oz . (pay no attention to that man behind the curtain)
(and I am sure that you're the Emporer of Rome) This is slashdot, hint, hint.
I wasn't going to brand a whole 'genere' of popular music as bad. In fact, I once purchased a Neneh Cherry album (on vinyl) and remember liking it. And I like 'Yellowman' who is a Jamaican rapper, though not anything at all like modern 'rap' music.
Here's some middle ground: I downloaded and played it. It was a little boring after the first few seconds.
You're just trying to be 'totally modern.' Here's a hint:
There are and always will be just scads and scads of good material published in the past that nobody takes the time to digitize.
Most of the 'paperless office' flakes in business have dried up and blown away. Thank goodness, though I do hate the chore of swamping out all the paper debris from my cubicle. I'd hate it more if the IT 'tards could discard important stuff at will because it was 'captive' on their lousy Windows servers.
I have recordings of music that 'sound good' that are encoded on acetate disks that I have to spin at 78 rpm to listen to. If you're listening to a genere of music where the playback has to be absolutely squeaky perfect for you to enjoy it, it's debatable if you're even listening to the music. You're just admiring the technique.
Added to which, some of the really GREAT music of the past can be enjoyed without listening to it at all. L. Beethoven was stone deaf by the time he composed his Ninth Symphony. Don't you think he could 'hear' the music in his head just by scanning the score visually? Some of the rest of us can 'play back' music that way as well.
It's just crappy music, if it can't be enjoyed on many levels.
but since my research area is not Operating Systems, it is unlikely that I will ever write an OS book. I would advise you to think before you make such claims, it makes you look like you really don't know what you are talking about.
Most first-year Calculus professors aren't engaged in research of the concepts taught in first year calc courses. Yet where possible many of them teach from their own book. I would advise you to think before you make your claims. It makes you look like you're an entrenched part of a profiteering interest group.