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.

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Admit they got caught flat-footed during COVID and ditched Skype and made this instead, and theyâ(TM)re still a distant second to Zoom? The way to compete with Zoom is to make a better product, not to inundate operating systems with reminders about Teams.

â¦from two people who make software solutions and streaming video lessons. Ignores much if not most of what teaching and learning actually is, but hey, thereâ(TM)s money to be made at the top.

Creativity, originality, and personal responsibility? To paraphrase a comment in a recent New York Times article âoedonâ(TM)t let your imagination shrink to the size of a mouseclickâ.

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”.

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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.

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Crichton wrote the same prometheus story with a different tea cozy over it each time. Andromeda Strain. Rising Sun. Terminal Man. Congo. Airframe. Next. Sphere. Prey. Jurassic Park⦠Gripping, no doubt, but his other worthy works are eclipsed by these.

Do you know why we donâ(TM)t have flying cars? Not because itâ(TM)s technologically insurmountable, but because of people. People who canâ(TM)t drive cars stuck to the ground by gravity, with lots of lines and signs and lights to tell them exactly what to do, without dying at the rate of a major war. Imagine everybody having the freedom to navigate in 3-D space with no lines or lights or roads to stick to. Thatâ(TM)s the barrier to flying cars. Now, imagine those same people are floating in a giant sphere and drinking. The only thing bending this a bit towards safety is that people mostly no longer use lighters to silently cheer at concerts, they use their phones now. Also, get off my lawn.

AT article says Apple has patched this vulnerability on all platforms.

Mostly through distraction, plus reduced initiative to investigate information, which dulls their efforts to create a thru line to new information. In that regard, they are much like the current vaunted AI systems, which are mostly regurgitating and remixing existing information. At least thereâ(TM)s fewer hallucinations in the classroom. Cogitation is being supplanted by âoeI'll just Google itâ. Which would not be horrible if Google was in the business of steering you to primary sources. But it is not, it is now in the business of selling you something with a screen printed meme of Eratosthenes. Several pages later, you might get something about the size of the earth.

Space lasers also need to be fixed to their mounts with genuine Saskatchewan sealskin bindings. Accept no substitutes.

Use them at schools, theyâ(TM)re basically disposable in the hands of kids. Google sold a huge bunch of these when the SBAC required all students to complete their test online, and another boatload for COVID. Browser-as-computer is interesting but not really robust for file management, backup, etc. outfitting an iPad with real resident storage, all three popular ecosystems (aapl, msft, goog) and work suites is a far more forgiving solution.

you're not enough of a customer for us. Buh-bye.

Apple isn’t installing additional RAM chips — the RAM in the M-Series processors is baked directly into the CPU die. It’s SiP, and IMO it’s not exactly unusual that that is going to cost more than commodity RAM sticks.

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IMO the ones they need to worry about are the likes of Amazon. If you’re an AWS customer (and let’s face it — let’s of big orgs are these days) then using Amazon Linux 2 is a no brainer. Binary compatible with RHEL, regularly updated by Amazon, fully supported, and the Yum repos live inside the AWS infrastructure. A fully containerized image is also available.

If you’re already using AWS for your cloud infrastructure, using AL2 is a no brainer. It may not be something your average home user is installing for local use and may not be on the radar in orgs that aren’t AWS customers, but it’s who I would be worrying about if I were RedHat (along with other big cloud providers doing the same).

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