Comment Re:Typical Stupidity (Score 1) 72
and if it was coming from you I'd still ask the worst possible AI to verify your claims
OK bot. There isn't even a "you".
and if it was coming from you I'd still ask the worst possible AI to verify your claims
OK bot. There isn't even a "you".
Due to this news, I suggest we refer to it from here on out as "fauxpilot".
Uranium is not a nuclear weapon. HTH, though I know it won't.
The software is already written.
Yes it's already written. Use a kernel with the code still there. It's not like your 486 will have any application that requires the latest kernel, if your system even manages to boot at all.
The problem with written code is that if it remains "supported" it places a burden on all other code changes made to the product. Someone needs to do regression testing to make sure it's not broken. Someone needs to do security auditing and potential bug fixing. And above all, these are not reasonable requirements for hardware that old. Hence "not supported" means "not supported" i.e. the programmer won't or in some cases actually can't support it.
Software is not hardware, you can run old software. It's still there. It's not like the network switch example above.
and even 486 could go beyond 64M of RAM.
Could and Did are two distinct words in the English language. Very few 486 machines ever existed with more than 64MB of RAM. They were for insanely niche applications. Now we change the debate from do we support what is today an incredibly rare architecture, to do we support what is today an incredibly rare architecture for the purpose of a niche that almost certainly doesn't exist anymore on that platform?
We can keep going down this rabbit hole of "but it did support", only to find there's a single machine on the planet that actually had that hardware config, and Bob hasn't used that machine in decades.
Almost all IoT devices work by phoning home. They call some remote server, and do some API stuff, send some message poll for new messages / instructions. They tend to have very little if anything listening.
Are you talking about professional well made IoT devices designed for corporate management? Because holy shit are you wrong about general consumer IoT devices doing no listening. There's a reason for the running joke that the S in IoT stands for security.
In fact much of the community driven IoT interfaces for tinkerers rely on the fact that someone has hacked a device almost universally via an active open listening port to force it to work with something other than it's Cloud service.
Your best beat at security: Isolate them on your network and firewall your inbound connections.
From the most current OS/2 release:
"Hardware Requirements
Intel Pentium Pro or higher, or an AMD Athlon or higher. 64 Bit CPUs are supported (however ArcaOS will run in 32-bit mode). Computers with ARM CPUs are not supported. Apple Computers are not supported (regardless of CPU). The Vortex86 CPU is not sufficiently compatible to run ArcaOS and is not supported."
i.e. minimum hardware requirements are a 686 instruction set.
Linux isn't suitable as a real-time OS now either strictly speaking. In fact that one of the top hits from a search on Linux RTOS is a paper from NASA (from a comparatively recent 2019) discussing the performance of Linux with every RTOS relevant kernel feature set into the most ideal position. Their conclusion was... well you probably will hit your event deadline if you throw fast enough hardware at it, but it is still nothing like a true RTOS.
well they're not a threat if you keep stopping them from making nukes.
Netanyahu, is that you? Was this lie about nukes they never had promised to you 3,000 years ago?
I see you've run out of intelligent things to say.
I admit that it's not intelligent to continue to waste time talking to someone like you, who thinks you can't do things I've done because you have no practical experience.
I didn't say anything about which user you are or how much permissions you have. The fact that these OSes allow even *root* to make changes to the OS, is insecure in itself. By contrast, Android and iOS strictly limit what installers can do.
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
Even if you do have "god" permissions, an Android or iOS installer can't update the OS itself.
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA
Keep going, this is precious
wonder who the good guys are...
Not anyone who is bombing schools, Nazi.
I will remind you that the Nazis were inspired by the USA. There is no universe in which the USA is the good guys.
if you can't figure that out I can only guess it is probably due to you mixing up M & GB.
Oh, are you one of the stupid clowns I've corrected on b and B? I bet you are.
Plenty of 486 back in the days had more than 16M of ram.
This is bullshit. A percent of a percent of 486s had more than 16MB.
And Iran will be banging rocks together trying to work out fire
Those who would give up freedom and security to attack an adversary who isn't even a threat are stupid fucks.
The "cutting edge" is getting rather dull. -- Andy Purshottam