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by gt0 15d ago
Tcl/Tk was the first "grown up" language I used after using variants of BASIC up until the mid to late nineties. I bought a used Sun Ultra 1 and Tcl/Tk was like a vision of the future compared to BASIC. I still sort of w
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by gt0 21d ago
Fujitsu replaced their SPARC CPUs with ARM, I think they were pretty good, but last I read about them was a few years ago.
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by gt0 1mo ago
An amazing thing I was reminded of just yesterday is that COD4:Modern Warfare ran on the PS3, with 256MB RAM.
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by gt0 1mo ago
I think "Code was never the hardest part" is more fair. Code itself can absolutely be difficult, but it's seldom the most difficult part of a project. Generally the hard part is actually figuring out what you want, and how
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by gt0 1mo ago
It seems to me that some companies are looking to move off COBOL and mainframes to say Linux and Java, because that is what someone was employed to do, not because it's necessarily a good idea. I think COBOL systems would be plenty mai
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by gt0 2mo ago
I think there has probably always been gaps between what marketing wants to sell, what management wants to prioritise, what programmers want to make, what customers say they want, and what customers actually want. Those gaps are getting big
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by gt0 3mo ago
Realistically only macOS runs on Macs, Linux worked on the early M series but not later models, as far as I know.
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by gt0 3mo ago
In Australia, it wouldn't even need to be a used PC. The Steam Machine is $1600 AUD here, you can get a brand new gaming PC for that. Not a particularly amazing machine of course, but you can walk into a shop and buy it right now.
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by gt0 3mo ago
Made me think of Breadbox Ensemble, which is GEOS, and was really lovely.
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by gt0 4mo ago
Free OS updates is the norm now though. If you'd bought a Windows PC 7 years ago, or used Linux, or just about any other desktop OS, you'd have had free updates.
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by gt0 4mo ago
The Framework 12 look lovely, I like the design a lot, but like other Framework computers, it's just far too expensive for what it is. The processor inside it is approaching 4 years old and wasn't a good processor at launch. I l
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by gt0 4mo ago
This seems as much like "sleep" as when a laptop "sleeps".
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by gt0 4mo ago
I thought the same. If it had a Kia badge on it, it wouldn't shock me, and I think Kia make some quite nice cars now. I don't like the interior. I think this style can work for some things, it reminds me of a NuPhy keyboard, block
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by gt0 4mo ago
I used RISC OS as my main platform in the nineties and still play with it now. With small screens, I agree with you on how saving works on RISC OS, but it really comes into its own on larger screens (say QHD or above) where you can easily h
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by gt0 4mo ago
Indeed it is subjective, I think the "Krups" was beautiful.
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by gt0 4mo ago
We had this at a job I had many years ago. We had a Sun Niagara system with some Sun Rays attached, and I had a Sun Ray laptop at home, on the other side of the world. Office in London, home in Melbourne. It wasn't even that slow.
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by gt0 4mo ago
If I was going to write something for free, it would some weird itch-scratching thing for Plan 9 or something, it wouldn't be something most people would ever want. Realistically though, I'm not going to build software for free an
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by gt0 5mo ago
That's what I mean, no actual processor model.
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by gt0 5mo ago
Am I missing something or is the article avoiding saying what Intel processor they are using?
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by gt0 5mo ago
They're 18650 cells, a bit bigger than AA.
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by gt0 5mo ago
GPUs existed in the 1960s, but apparently Sony invented the actual term "GPU" in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit#1990s
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by gt0 5mo ago
Glad to see I'm not the only person that noticed the lack of SGI stuff.
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by gt0 5mo ago
Agree, and this is my point. Apple absolutely has a very clear message on how developers should make software, but as you say, developers often do not care. I am a desktop app "believer" I like desktop apps, I like native deskto
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by gt0 5mo ago
When a platform can’t answer “how should I build a UI?” in under ten seconds, it has failed its developers. Full stop. That's fine, except no platform answers this. Obviously Linux doesn't, but the Mac doesn't either. Apple
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by gt0 6mo ago
Safari is a monopoly on iOS and iPadOS, that's a problem if you want to make a bleeding-edge PWA app, in that it's probably not going to work very well on iPad and iPhone and there is no web alternative on those platforms. Firefox
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by gt0 6mo ago
Perhaps not single thread, but Rock was a dead end a while before Oracle pulled the plug, and Sun/Oracle's core market of course was always servers not workstations. We used Niagara machines at my work around the T2 era, a long ti
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by gt0 6mo ago
I haven't used Solaris since the last time I used it for work over 10 years ago. Agree ZFS and Zones are both exceptional, I would still use Solaris now where it made sense.
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by gt0 6mo ago
I don't think anybody suggests Oracle couldn't make faster SPARC processors, it's just that development of SPARC ended almost 10 years ago. At the time SPARC was abandoned, it was very competitive.
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by gt0 6mo ago
I was really surprised by the s390x performance, but I also don't really understand why there are build time listed by architecture, not the actual processors.
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by gt0 8mo ago
Neither were mainframes though, Watson and Deep Blue were both POWER systems.

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