2manyrocks
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Controlling access to third party apps is probably a step along the road to ongoing OS subscription fees.
Weird. I was already using a flip phone for at least a year prior to 1994.Bought my bag phone in 1994 for $261. There were no cell phone stores then, had to buy from a commercial radio store. Things were changing rapidly then.
Those are the years I was getting my degree in computer engineering, and watching the explosion of development at both Motorola and Intel. You're calling the development of the Pentium a "stall"? What about the PowerPC? Our first non-deterministic operating systems in both MacOS and Win95?There is a 10 year pause in computer development, that I think most people don't know about. This was a 10 year period from "I'm say'en ," 1986 to 1996. Its a lost ten years to get the IBM architecture up to speed. Which people did, eventually and surpassed all the other designs, but there were better ones that just didn't get the market share.
Yeah, the pentium was a stall. It was a 32 bit processor that came out a year or two after DEC Alpha 64 bit processor came out. They didn't hit 64 bit for 10 more years.Those are the years I was getting my degree in computer engineering, and watching the explosion of development at both Motorola and Intel. You're calling the development of the Pentium a "stall"? What about the PowerPC? Our first non-deterministic operating systems in both MacOS and Win95?
Check out ChromeOS Flex : https://www.google.com/search?q=chr...l4j69i60l3.30579j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8I'm still running Win 7, and when that gets too risky, I'll probably switch to one of the distos of Linux.
One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago. Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines. Ten percent of our VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple language, easy to understand, easy to get started with. It's great for students, great for somewhat casual users, and it's great for interchanging programs between different machines. And so, because of its popularity in these markets, we support it. We have good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s. It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming. With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can easily and quickly check that small manual and find out that it's not there. With VMS, no matter what you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of documentation -- if you look long enough it's there. That's the difference -- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is that it's all there. -- Ken Olsen, president of DEC, DECWORLD Vol. 8 No. 5, 1984 [It's been argued that the beauty of UNIX is the same as the beauty of Ken Olsen's brain. Ed.] |
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My old PC is a 2017 refurb from Dell. Nice when new but now it's rather average and outdated.