Narishma

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631.
by Narishma 3y ago
> I thought that people anyway don't use the scroll bar that much It's hard to do when every popular platform seems intent on making it unusable.
632.
by Narishma 3y ago
They said unethical, not illegal.
633.
by Narishma 3y ago
Two other issues are that it is commercial/proprietary and only available on MacOS.
634.
by Narishma 3y ago
At the expense of vertically squished fonts, which I hated the look of. I would have been more likely to use it if it had a similar increase in the number of columns to keep the font at the correct aspect ratio.
635.
by Narishma 3y ago
Turbo Pascal for Windows did have a GUI designer, but it was a separate application from the code editor. It wasn't as integrated as VB.
636.
by Narishma 3y ago
Probably orders of magnitude less than the amount of wasted energy and greenhouse gases emissions of needlessly compiling the same javascript software over and over again on the billions of devices used to access the web.
637.
by Narishma 3y ago
> But CDOS/286 depended on a feature of the development versions of the 80286 which Intel removed from the final shipping version. So, when IBM launched the first 286 PC, CDOS didn't work. What feature was that?
638.
by Narishma 3y ago
Those look more like cash register keyboards than membrane.
639.
by Narishma 3y ago
This is K&R C, which predates the 89 standard.
640.
by Narishma 3y ago
I think zswap is better than zram in general.
641.
by Narishma 3y ago
It's about finding those bugs in the first place. Working on a different implementation is one way of doing that.
642.
by Narishma 3y ago
One can dream.
643.
by Narishma 3y ago
It's mentioned in the article.
644.
by Narishma 3y ago
Only beginners tends to complain about that. It's usually extremely easy to deal with people who spam a single move.
645.
by Narishma 3y ago
The article is about the 6800, not the 6809.
646.
by Narishma 3y ago
> IMHO the biggest blocker for Rust inside OpenBSD is that the project already has killed C developers and moving (some stuff) to Rust will need time and effort that could be put into other problems. I'm all for dropping C in favor
647.
by Narishma 3y ago
It looks more like Windows 95 to me.
648.
by Narishma 3y ago
That's with the Epson matrix printer emulation. You can also use the Postscript printer and get a .ps or .pdf file.
649.
by Narishma 3y ago
That version is the one (or one of the ones) affected. I'm guessing that's why they froze it, though why they didn't replace it with a newer one, or even the old safe version I'm not sure.
650.
by Narishma 3y ago
It's explained in the article.
651.
by Narishma 3y ago
It makes sense to me. Computers and phones are used for many things, so if they're filled with bad games, you can just ignore that one use-case. A console's main, or even only up until recently, use case is games.
652.
by Narishma 3y ago
That might be because VGA ran at 70Hz rather than 60 in its 256 color mode.
653.
by Narishma 3y ago
No, they're just bad at software.
654.
by Narishma 3y ago
That's what I was saying. Turbo Pascal didn't support generating EXE files until version 4.
655.
by Narishma 3y ago
It looked like that until version 4 where they switched to the more common interface with windows, menus and whatnot.
656.
by Narishma 3y ago
It's biggest downside was that it was limited to producing 64KB .COM files until version 4 or 5.
657.
by Narishma 3y ago
> which is in the same processor family as the CPU in the TRS-80 That would be the TRS-80 Color Computer. The TRS-80 used a Z80 CPU.
658.
by Narishma 3y ago
This is not old software being open sourced. It's a cross-platform re-implementation of BBC BASIC, and it's been around for years.
659.
by Narishma 3y ago
Ok but you don't need WebGPU for those things, WebGL should be fine.
660.
by Narishma 3y ago
IBM PCs too used to boot into BASIC ROM if you didn't have a bootable floppy in the drive.

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