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My Windows 11 machine still has mspaint.exe installed. Does this mean mspaint has outlasted its supposed successor? HOORAY!

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Last week, or seven days ago, Vsevolod Kokorin, also known online as Slonser, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that he found the email-spoofing (also known as forgery) bug (or vulnerability) and reported or disclosed it to Microsoft, formerly known as Micro-Soft.

What I meant was that the hardware you bought stays working -- you don't have to junk it because the software is full of unpatched, known security holes (or has just stopped working because somebody switched off a server somewhere). You're right that newer, better hardware becomes available, but that doesn't mean the old one is obsolete, if it does what you need. (One exception might be older wireless standards, for example if the 3G network is switched off in your country.) The biggest failing of older hardware is that the battery gets old and tired, as you noted.

Maybe a little unfair. No phone is particularly great, but iPhones since launch have generally suffered less from obsolescence (planned or otherwise) than Android or other competitors. Apple keeps producing security updates for several years and makes sure you can always install them. That can't always be said for Android devices.

Thanks. I misunderstood what the hardware does. I saw it as "a bucket of Pentium chips on a PCIe card" but really those are just an interface to the vector units, which is what you really paid for. And I guess even if Intel crammed 80 Pentium cores onto the card, it would still be outperformed by a pair of 40-core processors designed thirty years later.

But you could, in principle, parallelize your kernel build across the numerous x86 processors in a Xeon Phi. You can't use the GPU to speed up gcc. It seems like there ought to be some application of the technology for integer code that needs to go fast and is parallelizable, but not vectorizable. Intel never found it though.

On second thoughts, it would be hard to get enough memory. The IBM 8580 I mentioned could take 64 megabytes and perhaps more (I had 56 megabytes in mine, scattered across several weird upgrade cards). But the PC-AT... I don't know that even with a 486 upgrade installed you'd be able to install and directly address more than a megabyte.

I used to have an IBM 8580 system which originally used a 386DX processor (the top spec model was clocked at 25MHz). IBM had a licensed clone of the 486 called Blue Lightning, and produced a CPU upgrade. It was a small daughterboard fitting into the 386 socket. The Blue Lightning was clock-tripled (like the Intel 486DX4, which came a couple of years later) so ran internally at 75MHz. That means I could now run Windows XP on that machine from 1987, if my parents hadn't sadly junked it. (It ran NT 3.51 very well so I'd hope enough of the old device drivers are still there in XP.) I expect the Blue Lightning upgrade would work in any 386DX system.

It's possible to go further back. Cyrix produced a 486SLC which had a 16-bit external data bus (like the 386SX) and could be fitted as an upgrade to 386SX systems, but also to 286 ones. There were upgrade kits for the IBM PC-AT. So you could in principle get Windows XP running on a machine from 1984.

Hmm, you're right, it's not "on-die". But it is part of the same chip package. Not on the motherboard. That's one of the main changes when they switched to the M series ARM processors away from Intel.

And then the elephant in the room is on-die memory, which Slashdotters hate because it's not upgradeable, but has allowed Apple to jump ahead of PC performance. It's surprising that PC manufacturers and Intel haven't come up with their own offering in the past four years.

Ah, I see you can hover over the characters in the chart to see their equivalents. Iggy is equivalent to Luigi and Kamek.

So what are the characters that differ only in appearance? I normally play as Iggy, but he doesn't appear in the article's charts, so I assume his stats are identical to some other character.

Many browsers have a reading mode which simplifies out the excessive styling. But Firefox's reading mode (F9) loses the images too.

Your Apple Watch will be obsolete in five years and perhaps the whole product category obsolete in twenty. It doesn't help much that a leather strap could last centuries.