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Comment the app store rules and 30% cut is why mac os is n (Score 2) 121

the app store rules and 30% cut is why mac os is needed.

If ios allowed full firefox then you don't need mac os to run real firefox.
if ios allowed emulators (now more allowed) then you don't need mac os to run them on your iPad and it needs to be able to load roms from an folder.
if they allowed side loading then less of an need for mac os.

Comment Legacy systems (Score 1) 96

I used to be peripherally involved with a legacy system that had, with some effort, been converted recently from 8" floppies to those new-fangled 3.5" gadgets. It used a unique file system that required a particular format. I figured out a way to use Linux to format the floppies and write disk images. We noted a sharp drop in floppy quality after about 2008.

The system used more modern storage at runtime, but making it boot off something more modern (e.g. USB) would have required a boot ROM upgrade. This was within our technical capability - the people who had written the original boot ROM were long gone by then, of course - but it was more cost-effective to scrap the system and make something new to replace it. So we did.

...laura

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