Applesoft, TRS-80 Level 2, and most of the other built in were version 2 of Microsoft BASIC (or the 6502 port of that).

Until version 5, iirc, memory was searched serially, rather than using a table.

So jump to a high line number for setup, then back to midrange for general execution, with frequently used subroutines at low line numbers.

Version 4.52, then later 5, were common on CP/M.

BASICA/GWBASIC was pretty much an 8086 port of 5 with extensions.

>and also headache-causing, horribly obfuscated code in any language.

"A good programmer can write bad FORTRAN in *any* language!"

imagine a world in which 70% to 80% of the political *middle* in the house was choosing a speaker, the rules committee, and chairmen, shutting out the Dingbat Caucus on the democrats' left, and the Arson Coalition on the republican left.

Oh, wait, we don't have to imagine it--it worked this way for most of US history, for which party line votes were the exception, not the rule.

This wouldn't be nearly so funny if GM hadn't been sued *for* making radios standard equipment, and forced to provide the "delete for credit" option to "protect" third party radio manufacturers . . .

> I mean, who buys new thermostats every 15 years?

I'll take "Honeywell Customers" for $200.

Oh, and try *reading* the license on their smart ones . . . it basically says "we can do anything we want with your data, and disclose it to whomever we choose, especially if they're going to pay us."

viing for puns, are we?

This was gitlab, not github.

What I'm saying is that Christians are taught to do good because they'll go to Hell if they don't; Jews are taught to do good simply because it's right.

I believe Model 2 used an actual ALU rather than table lookup.

No. It also used the table lookup. Our computer had 20,000 decimal digits of individually adressable core memory and you could clear it to all zeros with one instruction. I wrote a little program that fit inside the 80 digits of input that cleared core one digit at a time and stopped when it hit the record mark at the end of the arithmetic tables. It took 30 seconds.

It's been a long time since I ran across anybody who knew what core memory was, let alone had used it. I started out on an IBM 1620, Mod 2, way back when. Now, can you tell me what cardimages were and why they were once important?

My guess is that whatever's causing this isn't doing it directly. If so, nobody in what MS pretends is its quality assurance department saw any reason to test VPNs to see if there are any side effects. Just another example of MS's carelessness. I'm glad, though, that I haven't allowed any form of Windows on any of my computers for almost twenty years.

Pushing all children to go to college whether they could benefit from it or not wasn't always the way things were done. Back in the late '30s through the mid-40s there was a series of 16 very popular films centering on the adventures of Andy Hardy. For most of the films, Andy was a high school student in the Midwest. Andy's big ambition was to become an automobile mechanic and eventually own his own shop. His father was a judge, and was completely OK with that. Can you imagine that happening today?

haven't you studied relativity?

that extra juice lets the ship move so fast that the 270 miles appears to be just 195 to outside observers!

If Microsoft wants to treat their OSs like a chromebook, I'm not buying more than one for the household.

Why so many? What is there that only runs in Windows 11 and not under Wine that you need so badly that you're willing to buy an extra computer just for that?

I can give them two more: Catastrophe and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.