Narishma

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691.
by Narishma 3y ago
I think you're confusing it with Access, which is the one that was part of Office for a while.
692.
by Narishma 3y ago
They still sell them to the public, though stock availability will vary greatly between resellers and regions.
693.
by Narishma 3y ago
> This is a device driver. It's not, it's an IPC subsystem. It doesn't talk to any hardware.
694.
by Narishma 3y ago
> The Pi Zero is the only model they still sell that is 32-bit only. Not true. They're still selling all their previous models.
695.
by Narishma 3y ago
Those are niche compared to Raspberry Pi.
696.
by Narishma 3y ago
> The the maxim is not "Optimization is the root of all evil". In my experience, that's exactly how most people understand it.
697.
by Narishma 3y ago
They are saying that given Apple's track record with Rosetta 1, developers had no reason to trust Rosetta 2 would be sufficient to test their applications with, and would thus need to buy the expensive DTK.
698.
by Narishma 3y ago
As the article states, later versions of Encarta switched to web tech.
699.
by Narishma 3y ago
> We're calling a machine with a Celeron CPU a "server" now? What's wrong with that? A server can have any kind of CPU.
700.
by Narishma 3y ago
The sunk cost here I think refers to the existing CPU designs of the respective camps. Qualcomm's ARM-based cores don't support an equivalent of the C extension and adding it would presumably require major and expensive rework.
701.
by Narishma 3y ago
So basically RVA is like UTF-8 and the proposed RVH will be like UTF-32?
702.
by Narishma 3y ago
That has more to do with the web ecosystem than the Raspberry Pi hardware.
703.
by Narishma 3y ago
Then you shouldn't be surprised that it's not popular.
704.
by Narishma 3y ago
I don't think Office 95 had a different UI than the rest of the system. The only thing I remember being different about it is the title bar where they introduced the gradient that was later picked by Windows 98 and 2000. The menus and
705.
by Narishma 3y ago
I don't remember anybody other than IBM having ROM BASIC in their PC clones.
706.
by Narishma 3y ago
One of the main reasons Chrome has become a monopoly is that Google pushed it aggressively with such tactics on its various properties.
707.
by Narishma 3y ago
No, it worked like that since the very first Windows version.
708.
by Narishma 3y ago
What do they mean when they say Linux is saturated?
709.
by Narishma 3y ago
That's just the CPU though. The Amiga has a bunch of custom chips for doing things you would have to do on the CPU in a PC.
710.
by Narishma 3y ago
I do. I also use vim defaults. Yes, I'm one of those weirdos using both emacs and vi.
711.
by Narishma 3y ago
I would if they backported the fix to a version that runs in Windows 98.
712.
by Narishma 3y ago
How would that change anything in regards to China having access to RISC-V?
713.
by Narishma 3y ago
It was NextSTEP and that was for Doom. I think they switched to Windows NT for Quake (or was that Quake 2?), which is what he was working on in that pic with the giant CRT.
714.
by Narishma 3y ago
I think the only successful console to use it was the Mega Drive.
715.
by Narishma 3y ago
Probably over IPX/SPX instead of TCP/IP. Novell Netware networks were all the rage back then in the PC world.
716.
by Narishma 3y ago
That's discussed in the article.
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Powerful Page Mapping Techniques [video](youtube.com)
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718.
by Narishma 3y ago
I also hijacks the back button.
719.
by Narishma 3y ago
I don't think it's a port either. It's a new engine. I don't think it uses anything from Gecko.
720.
by Narishma 3y ago
Most of this applies to C++, or any other compiled language.

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