That's my ROM! :D

Unfortunately apparently the floppy disk bootstrap code is broken on metal (I don't have a floppy drive to test with yet). I don't know anything about the FD1797, and damn little about the Z80 - so all this together means I'm having some trouble figuring out where to even start.

But there's the source code, if anyone can fix it.

The head end can be emulated - there's 5 different implementations that I know of. Booting from floppy requires a ROM upgrade.

A variation of the old Door in the Face strategy.

I thought Mexico was region 4, like Brazil. o.o;

-uso.

A friend of mine refers to some of our servers as running "Linux" when in fact they run FreeBSD. (Others do run Linux, but not the ones he uses.)

"The more you tighten your grip, Governor Tarkin..."

I think I've seen more Ford tractors around than John Deere. With this, I expect that to become even more true.

MS gets too aggressive with updates, and people who wouldn't mind less aggressive updates get annoyed and turn off auto-updating altogether, for better or worse...

I did that with my tablet after an automatic update left me stuck at the login screen until I figured out how to roll back the update.

-uso.

Let's hope.

I had mixed feelings about him before (figured he was a blowhard with honest intentions) but now that it seems he's in Putin's pocket, I remain convinced that Ecuador did the right thing.

-uso.

Part of the problem is that there's a push to put as many high school students into college (even 2-year college) as possible, even those who would be better served going to vocational schools.

Protip: You can't outsource blue collar work.

-uso.

I thought 2 was a worthy successor.

QBASIC was in MS-DOS 5 and later, and PC DOS 5.0 throught 5.02.

In MS-DOS, it replaced GW-BASIC; IBM continued to keep their BASICA (which GW-BASIC was functionally equivalent to but did not depend on the Cassette Basic in ROM) around to the end.

How Orwellian of them to say so...

I remember them singing a much different tune a few years ago - back about the same time Time Warner started playing with the idea, they were only too happy to institute caps, and when in Rochester, NY you had Frontier with caps, and TWC threatening them, people got so pissed off we nearly had them pushing for a law against data caps in Congress.

VBDOS is a descendant of QuickBasic Extended 7.1, and QBasic is a nerfed version of QuickBasic 4.5. I'm well aware of the history of Microsoft BASIC on MS-DOS.

For the record, a buildable source tree to QBasic 1.1 is out there.