Tc/ip networking on Win3 was a driver addon from Microsoft that was free. I think you are referring to a dialup slip/ppp extension, which was a commercial 3rd party thing.
Do I need to add or enable a mod to get the mobs? Because I just started playing minetest last week and am liking it, but want there to be mobs. I guess I'd better just roll up my sleeves and dig around their forum and get more involved...
That just means Apple has to come up with new reasons to obsolete the current-2 versions of devices running their iOS. Which won't be a problem. They're good at that.
I'm sure Apple will be able to come up with artificial means of obsoleting their older hardware when the bottom line demands it. It's something they have an expertise in.
But the flood of older small screen iPhones into the used market will crater Apples general sales. They don't make ANYTHING on the sale of a used iPhone. I guess they'd better accelerate the release of iOS updates to force the 5s into obsolescence faster.
Right now Tesla's Gigafactory does nothing, because it's just some hype that's been used to get funding.
We need to wait for it to be built and see some results. Otherwise, we might as well be discussing the environmental soundness of the warp drive on the starship Enterprise, or the predicted efficiencies from the dreams any other capitalist has spun up.
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Base NetBSD installs just work, too. Actually as good or better than Linux. You just install the 300-500Megs that a base install consists of, then configure your network and X and install packages. And edit your ~/.twmrc file so everything is in the menu.
By being better. Which is something you have to work at. Microsoft is a company filled with persistent bastards who have proven they can eventually Get It Done successfully. They've done so in several markets recently. I don't particularly like Microsoft and my phone and tablets at present are Android. But I'd like them to be better, and Microsoft could be the ones to produce that 'better.' If for no other reason, because they don't have the long-tail legacy that Android is starting to carry.
I wouldn't say Microsoft was 'late to the party with DOS.' There was basically CP/M and lots of little stuff out there. They bought one of the 'little stuff OSes' because they had IBM as a customer and the opportunity to be in charge of the Next Big Thing DOS.
Windows prior to Windows 95 was based on the same GUI standard as OSF/Motif.
Lotus 123 was a latecomer. Visicalc was the breakthrough spreadsheet from the spreadsheet inventor, and ran on the Apple 2 and the IBM PC (among others).
Microsoft is persistent. That sums it up. They'll produce a crappy product if they need a placeholder in a new market. Sometimes they later abandon that market. Other times they succeed.
When you have a relatively small customer base and are highly restrictive about what hardware your OS will run on, you have a lot of freedom to be very VERY controlling of your environment. Apple nearly died in the period when they allowed their OS to run on third party hardware. But they could never scale up with only their own hardware. We don't need a ubiquitous Winston Smith viewscreen common to everyone, either. Diversity is good.
There's only one true Window Manager (Tab Window Manager) TWM but there are a lot of pretenders, too.
Tab is well documented in the O'Reilly X manual set.
If your most recent experience is 'the Windows CE days' you really aren't entitled to an opinion. I have a Windows 8.1 tablet, they're available for no more than a high end Android tablet now, and with a real x86 processor in them so they're not one of those stunted Windows RT things. It's really nice as long as you can stay in Metro. I wish there were more Metro apps, but for what most people do with a tablet the platform is well covered.
I also have a recent 10" Android tablet and an older 7". The thing I'll probably never buy new again is an iOS device. My iPod Touches kept falling 'obsolete' soon after I bought them. They also failed much earlier than anything I've had since.
The most common smartphone in the world is the iPhone!
That's just because there is such a limited model selection of iPhones. Generally one or two models on the market at a time. Even with a midget market share they can claim to be 'most common.'
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
