The days when "soft scrolling" was an impressive feat. But working with
some guys who started with punch cards and soldering irons I don't try
to pull the "been here for long" card anymore :-)
One day I might go to Warpstock, though -- after all that is still an
annual conference, so OS/2 just can't be dead.
Peter
On 04/02/10 19:50, Christian Catchpole wrote:
You think talking MS-DOS TSR's dates you? How about 8 bit Commodore
64, assigning the vertical blanking interrupt to a SID player or
similar.
On Feb 4, 4:36 pm, RogerV<[email protected]> wrote:
On Jan 30, 9:12 pm, Christian Catchpole<[email protected]>
wrote:
But as I think about it, I'm taking a new perspective. We all think
that "in the future" we will have simpler, cleaner easier to use,
"Minority Report" devices. But until that happens, we all *need* unix
shells and root access to get anything done. Progress in computing is
limited by our attachment to the past. I believe Apple are trying to
get us closer to the future. Obviously, the geekier of us who are
used to total control over a system will revolt against it.
Sadly I date myself but we've lived all this before - back in the day
of MS-DOS TSR (terminate and stay resident) applications.
Those were eventually deemed too limiting relative to an OS offering a
true multi-processing and multi-tasking approach.
Is rather strange to see Apple steering the 21st century of computing
back to the 1980s.
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