Well, if they don't mention it, maybe it will just go away. On Feb 5, 9:07 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Aaaaand the purity continues: > > http://www.eurodroid.com/2010/02/power-crazed-apple-demands-developer... > > On Feb 4, 10:25 pm, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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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