PointCast... memory unlocked. There's a name I haven't heard in like 30 years.

I agree with you that everything old is new again, often something that wasn't as successful as it could have been and companies are trying to make the idea work. VR has been in that category for almost 4 decades, and it still is.

> At some point your UI has reached peak usability and the you can only go downhill.

That point happened in 2009.

Also another case of Microsoft touting a "new" feature that other OS's have had for decades.

There's also the subject-verb disagreement bubble.

The school administrators, unlike the people who actually make the schools work, such as it is, tend to be paid pretty well.

I get so tired of hearing the school systems stress technology so much, because they are inevitably 20-30 years behind in their understanding of how to best utilize it, leave alone secure their systems. I always fantasized about teaching a computer class that didn't even touch a keyboard for the first half year...

I recall Windows 3.51 was quite secure for the time. But once they merged the DOS branch of the OS with the NT branch, things got a lot worse for several years.

It's good to hear AWS has never been hacked because just about every other company with data has been. A lot of people rely on AWS, and what you are saying is accurate and if they are running their systems correctly, there can be a reasonable expectation that they will be secure. That's nice to know.

> What I learned is that teachers have literally no time for anything.

The school system in the U.S. is notorious for this. Teachers get so much stuff dumped on them, much of which has little to do with actual teaching. It's a truly thankless job that cannot be fixed by dumping more money into the system. It's fundamentally broken. There are plenty of good teachers, but their effectiveness becomes more and more fettered every year.

Source: father of 4, and husband to a school teacher

In my experience the two worst things to combine are "education system" and "technology".

If the script kiddies are hacking your system, you've got bigger problems.

Is "script kiddies" still a thing?

I'm so old.

Was there much overlap between the 6502 version and the 8088 version, or did it need to be completely rewritten?

I could see them having a higher level design, which could in theory actually be C code, which just needed to be rendered, er, compiled down to the specific instruction sets. I'm assuming all this assembly was written as assembly, but there could still be a higher-level design, rendered as flowcharts or whatever that was translated for each architecture.

It's a fascinating part of computer history. I miss those days, even though I never actually had my own computer until after I graduated from college.

It's just another catalyst for people who are mentally ill (and probably not very smart) to do harm. It's inevitable with any new kind of technology.

> Also, no one is committing suicide because of ChatGPT

According to the news that is happening, and even if it hasn't, it will.

There is nothing society creates, good or bad (and I think AI is mostly good) that will not have some terrible side effects.

/. isn't what it used to be, but more importantly, the world in which /. was great also isn't what it used to be.

Well, that and no CmdrTaco.

I, for one, have a lot of two-digit numbers to factor, so I'm waiting impatiently for quantum supremacy.

Or a /. editor who didn't bother to read it...

Wow. I thought they'd only factored 15. I need to keep up with the latest news.

This is hitting the level where it's competing with yafu.