that corporations and governments are watching your every move, putting it into databases to penalize you over it's content later. As to if it's accurate, well forget that! You are always guilty before the corporate overlords.
think of it as a new 'convenience charge'.
all you have to remember is what changed, no different than differencing disks in the virtualization world.
Take a look at this, a 'text mode' version of elite.
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net...
Elite was of course a procedural universe on a 6502 back in the early 1980s.
And if you want to be 1990's wowed, check out Frontier Elite II...
http://www.frontierastro.co.uk...
This time Elite grew up to include multiple planets, star, even asteroids... It's amazing! and ran on a 68000 or 80286 without a maths coprocessor. David Braben is the go to guy when it comes to procedural universes!
elite had it's procedural universe, frontier expanded on it vastly... and now there is going to be frontier deadly, which oddly enough is going to be much like this 'no mans sky'... except David Braben has been doing this for decades.
I'll drink to that!
since nobody wrote or used symbian in the android era anyways.
I too am a victim of the office space life.
I always thought it was math & magic. But more so magic.
Nothing like the battle cry of "it worked in the lab!" in the morning.
But it's always been about "and more"
Kids may be young and a bit naïve, but they aren't dumb. All those big headlines about moving everything to India, Philippines over the last 20 years, and the utter lack of entry positions in big companies IT departments in the west would lead to this.
Honestly how can anyone be surprised?
That is the joke of STEM, all those jobs are quickly, and easily outsourced, so why bother?
Great, so use a RS232 terminal with a paper tty?
Well the 80386 brought us the best stuff from the IBM 370 (which was way cooler than the 360) to the masses. First we got v86 mode, so we can run 8086 virutal machines at full 386 speed! And demand paging, for virtual memory!
It really was a major shift in computing power, as now the pc was capable of doing things that Mainframes, and mini's could only do. Look at Windows/386 and Xenix for the 386 in action. Virtual machines and a 32bit UNIX on the desktop. awesome stuff.
Well 64kb for the BIOS+BASIC, 64KB for video, and then people wanted network card ROMS's, SCSI ROMS, EMS pages, and even more crap. The 384kb window was pretty small too.
1MB was too small for a 16bit processor, it's more so Intel's fault. And IBM for not selecting the 68000 processor which had a much larger 24bit (16MB) address space capability. But knowing IBM, they would have gone with the 68008, which had an 8bit data bus for those glorious 8bit ISA slots, and was available in a 20bit address variant, because 1MB is more than enough.
But heck in CP/M land we were trying to squeeze by in 64kb. 640kb a 10x improvement seemed astronomical.
The move from 32bit to 64bit hasn't felt as earth shattering though, I mean it's nice having 16GB of ram directly accessible, but I just wind up running a bunch of 32bit stuff that can get a full 2GB of space (since the 640kb grew into 64MB with early 386's, then 512M, now Windows NT split the 4GB 50/50 and when 2GB wasn't enough 'enterprise' gave us 3GB, and shrunk hardware to a single GB, now in 64bit space we can have 128GB of ram (and growing). But people want to map their video cards 100% into processor space, which grows just as fast. Considering VGA worked in 64kb (EGA/CGA/MDA in much less), now video cards with 4GB aren't that uncommon.
It's a never ending race.
You are leaving out the A20 gate bug aka the HMA, the top 64kb of the 1MB space, and of course 286/386 protected mode, VCPI and DPMI.
DOS Extenders were far more useful than EMS ever was. As the memory access was 100% transparent.
What is even more crazy is that 16bit 286 based dos extenders are still for sale! (http://www.tenberry.com/dos16m/index.html). Clearly there is a market for 16bit programs with a large address space. Oddly enough the same company also made DOS4/GW which was royalty free for Watcom users. This gave us DOOM, and Duke3d!
PharLap had a much nicer extender, but it was more expensive and you had to pay royalties for ever unit shipped.
Windows 3.0 ended up being the most popular dos extender of them all, as everyone had it, and it had a much more feature rich runtime environment.
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