Narishma

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961.
by Narishma 4y ago
If you don't mind using retro tools in an emulator like PCem, the first edition of 'Programming Windows' was for Windows 2.0 and should get you started.
962.
by Narishma 4y ago
This is AVX though, not SSE.
963.
by Narishma 4y ago
It seems to cause high CPU usage whenever you move the mouse in the web demo.
964.
by Narishma 4y ago
eMacs were Apple computers, not an OS.
965.
by Narishma 4y ago
Those two look identical to me.
966.
by Narishma 4y ago
It's not using the Quake engine, or it wouldn't be running at 30 fps on current hardware. It's probably Unity or something more modern and bloated.
967.
by Narishma 4y ago
That doesn't make sense. The RP2040 is a microcontroller. AFAIK Broadcom doesn't make microcontrollers.
968.
by Narishma 4y ago
> - Does not require consenting to copilot training on your code What's to stop Microsoft from training it on code outside of Github?
969.
by Narishma 4y ago
This is a C compiler that is small, not a Small-C compiler that I initially thought it would be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C
970.
by Narishma 4y ago
Other languages like Smalltalk and Ada suffered from this as well.
971.
by Narishma 4y ago
Those are different releases.
972.
by Narishma 4y ago
> In 1996, my local ISP ran Usenet on the beefiest PC-platform machine I had ever seen: a dual Pentium-II 400 with 128MB of RAM and 6 9GB SCSI disks. That's a feat, considering the Pentium II wasn't released until 1997, and the
973.
by Narishma 4y ago
Or Linux only for that matter.
974.
by Narishma 4y ago
Cache locality, not coherency.
975.
by Narishma 4y ago
Linked lists made more sense back then when memory access wasn't as slow compared to CPU speed.
976.
by Narishma 4y ago
Just because they're advanced in one domain doesn't mean they are also in an unrelated one.
977.
by Narishma 4y ago
It was a .COM file back then but still the same program.
978.
by Narishma 4y ago
You might want to mention the author's name (John C. Wright), because there's another Eschaton Sequence by a different author.
979.
by Narishma 4y ago
What do you mean? It's a simple straightforward debug tool, or a monitor as it used to be called in 8-bit systems.
980.
by Narishma 4y ago
DEBUG.EXE is present in all versions of MS-DOS since the very first.
981.
by Narishma 4y ago
It says $279 for the one you linked.
982.
by Narishma 4y ago
Like many UI elements at the time, they were first introduced in Microsoft Office (95 in this case) and then put in the next version of Windows.
983.
by Narishma 4y ago
No, they have their own engine.
984.
by Narishma 4y ago
What? The NPC animations are the least realistic thing in this. They move like robots.
985.
by Narishma 4y ago
How can you explicitly agree when anyone can upload your code to github?
986.
by Narishma 4y ago
No, the only way is to make your code closed source.
987.
by Narishma 4y ago
Last time I looked, GCC had pretty poor support for 16-bit x86 compared to older compilers.
988.
by Narishma 4y ago
Like most of the home computers of the era, BASIC was in ROM, not on the disk. So if you didn't put a disk in the drive, it would boot into BASIC.
989.
by Narishma 4y ago
There's a free version of VMWare, though I don't know what features it lacks.
990.
by Narishma 4y ago
So if you don't have a scroll wheel the interface is broken.

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