MS is a minority player now and the source code is not readily available. Linux runs on every phone and almost every consumer router in existence. VMs running Linux now also dominate the server market.

I miss the days when Linux was an unapologetic UNIX clone and BSD wasn't as stale. If I'm going to run a big bloated *NIX desktop environment these days I'm just going to use a Mac. Fuck modern GNOME and KDE.

My typical desktop environment is just WindowMaker and a file manager. If I'm going to use X11, I'm going to use it properly and hand tune an environment I like.

Yeah because we'd still be talking to the Voyager probes if they used solar panels for power.

Fusion HAS worked on Earth, many times. Releasing megatons of energy in the process. Even the Russians pulled it off.

Pfft Amiga 500?

I played Flight Simulator 2 on that machine's dad, the Atari 800.

I guess you can stay on my lawn though. The Amiga was a cool as hell.

I ran it on a 386DX/40 without much hassle. It could get a little sluggish in a couple spots but was actually not a bad experience. The Linux and Novell UNIXWare version was even pretty playable on my replacement 486 though just barely.

The crazy thing is now we can get similar performance in a $1 uC with anemic onboard RAM/ROM and a crippled address bus that's not externally available.

Fuck dude, that sucks. That would probably make any astronomy in general painful for me and hard to continue.

Most people know they beat us to the spacewalk and had several functional space stations over the years.

Mercury and Gemini definitely outclassed Vostok in basically every way but they beat us up there.

So is the next silly maker trend going to be a contest seeing who can build the coolest, weirdest non-x86 machines within those specifications? PLDs are allowed but doing it all with a big FPGA is cheating.

Actually sounds like fun.

I seem to remember getting a lot of work done on a Mac IIci with a 25MHz 68030, 128MB of RAM and a couple SCSI drives. Even drove multiple monitors.

Why do we want to help bolster China's chip fabs with Russian customers? I want to see x86 lose market share to ARM but not this way.

It's not like the math needed for missile guidance is really that complex. We built guided missiles with far less CPU power than the average modern microcontroller.

Isn't that what basically happened with the ARM in China?

No one tried to overthrow the government. They tried to keep someone they didn't like from taking the reigns very loudly while touring the building and a couple of them stole shit. They were deluded, full of shit and wrong....but that wasn't an insurrection. Barely qualifies as a riot.

The Civil War was an insurrection.

The Revolutionary War was an insurrection.

Spartacus led an insurrection.

WW2 vet GI's led an insurrection in Athens, TN.

Often, the difference between insurrection and a revolution is who wins and controls the narrative. We don't need a fucking Ministry of Truth. That will be the beginning of the end no matter how noble the intentions.

The same generation that will literally burst into tears because a "griefer" killed them in an online game without asking first.... then write blog posts and post videos about how awful, traumatic and sexist it was was that the game was played as intended....then have their viewers harass the game publisher....even when a single player mode in the same universe is available. And that's just a space trading sim. Kowtowing to social justice posers and professional victims just results in shitty games.

If you can't handle a fully clothed avatar "touching" your fake character or doing the teabag dance without crying, you are too fragile for an open communications platform or video games. A command to block users is all that is needed. Anything more is just further down the slippery slope. They will never stop until everything is sterile, soulless, unfun and totally "inclusive".

So what's wrong with just calling all the dwarf planets... planets? I think it's awesome we've discovered lots of new planets every bit as significant as Pluto.

Having only a few planets seemed boring anyway.

Yeah because people are dropping like flies after getting the vaccine. It's hard for me to get to work having to step over all those vaccinated bodies. STFU clown ðY

I'm going to assume you meant OS/2.