it was about beating OS/2.

Most of the other UNIX’s weren’t designed to run on 80x86 platforms, so they were never in any real contention with Microsoft. AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Dynix (which was Intel based but had a special architecture separate from PCs) — none of these were in the same market as Windows.

No, Microsoft’s target was OS/2 — which had a bigger resource footprint, but was also a vastly superior OS, with real pre-emptive multitasking, a (by 90’s standards) modern high performance file system, the ability to pre-emptively multitask Windows 3.x and DOS apps well before Windows 95, and a superiors desktop environment (a modern Workplace Shell would still absolutely slay). It was here that Microsoft introduced Win32s and kept changing it every few weeks to break OS/2 compatibility for newer Windows apps. It was here that the per-processor agreements were put into place with systems manufacturers to make selling OS/2 on systems more expensive (for those too young to know, in these agreements the manufacturer paid and charged for a Windows license with every system sold — even if it didn’t come with Windows. So if you wanted an OS/2 system you were paying for both OS/2 and a Windows license you didn’t actually get).

UNIX wasn’t even on Microsoft’s radar in the 90’s — it just wasn’t a PC operating system, and was mostly targeted to systems that didn’t compete with Microsoft. If you wanted a UNIX system, you had to buy your hardware from your OS vendor (much like with macOS today) — virtually nobody (except some of the early cool kids running Linux and *BSD) was buying white-box Intel systems and running UNIX — the numbers were too small for Microsoft to care. OS/2 was their real target — and in the end, it worked.

Yaz

(Comment I also added to the register article - but I like /. too :-).

I offered to go with Linus to Sao Paulo zoo once to help him avoid having to meet Lula, the president of Brasil which he really didn't want to do :-). I did so only on the condition he do an interview with me. I was fed up of people asking Linus about Linux, so I only asked him questions about the Sinclair QL, which both he and I enjoyed. Interview is still available on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Workers who were given the opportunity to do charity or volunteer work"

Guess what, all workers have that because they can do it while they're not at work.

I don't get why people want their job to structure their non-job lives.

This seemed like it mostly dealt with people outsourcing R&D.

If you have engineers doing stuff on staff, this doesn't affect you(from what I found)

aren't rules about plagiarism.

Absolutely copying chunks that aren't your actual research and just describe the current state should be copyable with attribution.

And I don't know what English as a first language has to do with this -- you don't need to speak English well to know you can't copy without attribution.

And obviously you should be allowed to have a ghost grammar corrector for your papers - this isn't about the scientist's writing style, it's about communication of science.

That just points to how far behind the US is in decarbonizing its electrical infrastructure. That’s not really a knock on EVs.

Here in Canada, ~80% of our electricity is from hydroelectric sources, and ~90% is from non-carbon emitting sources (hydro, solar, wind, nuclear).

The good thing about running an EV in a jurisdiction which still uses CO2 emitting fuels for electrical generation is that you can knock down the CO2 emissions by just replacing the power plant, and not both the power plant and the vehicles. The EV effectively gets the upgrade “for free”.

Yaz

This goes back a very long way, but back when I was publishing The Sound Blaster Digest (early 90’s) I eventually started publishing using Windows Write on Windows 3.1 specifically because of OLE — I could package an “e-zine” with audio, graphics, fonts, and better formatting than the hand-formatted ASCII I was previously using. I continued with the ASCII format as well every month (which was a good deal of work) and released in both formats, but the Write version (being published at a time when HTML wasn’t accessible to the regular user) was always very popular for that reason. Embedding the media straight in a document every Windows user could use felt groundbreaking at the time.

Yaz

Well, if you want to talk about millions of people being killed by atheists, you should lookup what Stalin did. Ostensibly atheist state, plenty of genocide/holocaust.

People need to suck less. Arguing that people with this or that label doesn't address the suck.

You mean "raises the question"

Begs the question is when you assume something true without showing that it is in order to come to a conclusion based on that assumption.

No one wants an overpriced mediocre EV from a company that didn't invest into them when they have an alternative that's better and cheaper.

This shouldn't be a surprise

This has long been an issue where people just count "problems" without talking about the severity of the problems.

Problems that stop you from getting from point A to point B are the problems I care about, and those don't seem to be higher on EVs.

Or, the better way to look at this is the surveys about how happy people are with their cars. Little problems don't affect that opinion, so it's a great proxy.

EVs from good EV companies tend to have very high satisfaction numbers.

Well, ok, but that problem was addressed a century ago with photovoltaic cells. Here's a wiki link for you to read:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

So, not a problem. Just logistics we've been working on for a century.

and presumably the people voting read it, right?

The source is irrelevant, the contents are what matter.

China has rampant construction (among others) corruption. Nothing is ever made to spec and the extra money is siphoned off.

This sometimes is just inconvenient, but with a nuclear reactor, it's a bit more than inconvenient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The tesla workers don't want to strike. Everyone else is sort of forcing it on them.