My guess would be that 24 bit address space for the MMU, and that this worked better with the Z80.

There were ways to extend the 6809 space by a couple of bits, but not by eight.

The greater abundance of registers on the Z80--including an entire second set of the 8080 registers, which could be toggled between--sounds like a likely reason. IIRC, the 6809 didn't have any extra data registers as compared to the 6800.

hawk

America last. Right?

Oh sure, your job is gone, along with your house, marriage, retirement, family and dignity, but it's a global market now.

You're competing with teenage workers hiding behind a manipulated currency who live eight to a room while you have to stack four figures a month for a crackerbox apartment 70 minutes from work and go pedal to the floor seven days a week to keep your credit score above 600.

If you listen real careful-like, you'll hear your neighbors. They're living eight to a room too. They're all paid in cash and the "extended family" is pulling seven grand a week. That's why they have two brand new cars and effortlessly haul 200 pounds of groceries through the door every 72 hours while your "living room" floor is covered in coupons.

It's illegal as hell, but everyone gettin paid except you: cops, landlord, code enforcement, health department, bank.

They've taken your job, your women and your house. Next up is your currency and your vote.

But everything's going to be just fine. Just ask Reddit. They'll be happy to list 100 reasons why you should fuck off.

Maybe while they got all this women into high paying careers they could have convince them to donate back to them so they could continue operating.

The conservation laws are statistical, at least to a degree. Local apparent violations can be OK, provided the system as a whole absolutely complies.

There's no question that if the claim was as appears that the conservation laws would be violated system-wide, which is a big no-no.

So we need to look for alternative explanations.

The most obvious one is that the results aren't being honestly presented, that there's so much wishful thinking that the researchers are forcing the facts to fit their theory. (A tendency so well known, that it's even been used as the basis for fictional detectives.)

Never trust results that are issued in a PR statement before a paper. But these days, it's increasingly concerning that you can't trust the journals.

The next possibility is an unconsidered source of propulsion. At the top of the atmosphere, there are a few candidates, but whether they'd impart enough energy is unclear to me.

The third possibility is that the rocket imparted more energy than considered, so the initial velocity was incorrectly given.

The fourth possibility is that Earth's gravity (which is non-uniform) is lower than given in the calculations, so the acceleration calculations are off.

When dealing with tiny quantities that can be swamped by experimental error, then you need to determine if it has been. At least, after you've determined there's a quantity to examine.

>Of course the VTOL development division can be a completely discrete
>entity from the commercial jet manufacturing side of the business.

[nods]

Yes, ind of like they separate the doors and airframes now . . .

you're both halfway there.

you strap the toast *to* the cat, and it not only can't land, thus elevating, but spins, generating free energy!

I don't know about real Macs, but I have a Hackintosh that's ... um, OSX 10.8, on a midrange i7 with 8GB RAM and a fast SSD, and even doing nothing much (file manager, system settings and the like, no browser) it was sluggish to occasionally painful. Gave the system 32GB and suddenly it was much better.

If a version of OSX however-many-years-old is that bad with 8GB, I can't imagine current-OSX being pleasant.

I've been using Linux as my daily driver for 30 years. Oh sure, I had to dual boot from time to time to use the very last of the straggling applications, until I finally found quality equivalents for all of them.

Intuit, Adobe and all the incumbents spent billions upon untold BILLIONS to keep users like me trapped. And they lost.

Games run like a Swiss clock factory on Linux.

And as an added bonus: no progress bars, obscure meaningless error messages or popups.

They'll wring the last few cents out of their accidental deal with IBM, and then Linux and its equivalents will sweep DOS aside for good. The world will be a much better and happier place.

I escaped. I no longer need Windows for anything. Including:

1. Adobe Creative Cloud (I use free equivalents)
2. Quicken (I wrote my own equivalent).
3. Games, including Microsoft's OWN games (they run smooth with all the graphics options turned on with Wine, Proton, Lutris, Steam, etc.)
4. Development (nobody develops anything on Windows anyway)
5. Writing (Emacs for an author is incredibly powerful)
6. Video creation (faster and more stable on Linux)

All those billions spent on lock-in

I suppose I could keep a potato around with the billywindows installed on it, but it can't disrupt my work or interfere with my schedule any more. It can't destroy my work either. I also don't have to endure six progress bars every time I try to do something.

As far as this little gray duck is concerned the OS wars are over, and Microsoft lost huge. Good riddance.

that.

And I'll be even blunter: the problem here seems to be the choice of a notoriously inefficient browser.

It's as if the folks that used to design word & excel to use a maxed out machine from three years in the future were brought back out of retirement to build a browser.

I've been putting 16gb+ into machines over a decade, but this 8gb m3 is doing just fine--but I'm no longer doing massive compile jobs, don't need VMs, and loathe video. I was leery, hashed it out heavily with other folks, and just grabbed the base. for that matter, I didn't even get the 15" model, and not over price, but because of weight; the 12" is just fine for one-handed use, and I could feel the difference.

The RAM being on-die doesn't bother me. As long as you choose the right amount when you buy the machine, that's okay. I'm currently using an Intel iMac, one of the older models where you can replace the RAM, and a) I haven't ever needed to upgrade it, plus b) it's DDR3 RAM anyway and I can no longer find any at the same speed anyway. Just out of interest, I'm running 32GB RAM and the machine typically uses 18GB for my use cases, maybe more if I'm doing video encoding. On the Apple Silicon Macs the RAM doubles as VRAM so you really want as much as you can afford. 8GB is probably okay for web browsing but if you wanted to play pretty much any game, trying to share 8GB between system memory and graphics is going to be a struggle. The SSDs are way overpriced though, but happily you can just run cheap NVMe via a Thunderbolt RAID enclosure.

It does not become a "work" until it is copyrightable. Slapping a few words together does not constitute a "work" as it is understood in Title 17.

I do intellectual property for a living. Give it a rest.

So are Stanford researchers:
https://youtu.be/HaaZ8ss-HP4

There is no such thing as a "non-copyrightable work."