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31.
by cout 6mo ago
I think 5x86 had more to do with marketing than anything else, because the Pentium had already been on the market for a while when the Am5x86 came out.
32.
by cout 6mo ago
What was buggy about DOS 4? I ran it for years until I switched to DR DOS 5.
33.
by cout 6mo ago
I used dosshell on IBM PC DOS 4.0. I don't remember that feature. Was it added in 5?
34.
by cout 6mo ago
I knew viewmax had static windows, but I always wondered why. Now I know.
35.
by cout 8mo ago
I have run x11 in 16-color and 256-color mode, but it was not fun. The palette would get swapped when changing windows, which was quite disorienting. Hardware that could do 16-bit color was common by the late 90s.
36.
by cout 9mo ago
I recall it playing the same ad repeatedly during commercial breaks. I think i once watched the same ad 5 times in a row. Later I subscribed to paramount+ via amazon, and said goodbye to the glitches.
37.
by cout 9mo ago
I remember noticing that a teacher in high school had used white-out to hide the marks for the correct multiple choice answer on final exam practice questions before copying them. Then she literally cut-and-pasted questions from the practic
38.
by cout 10mo ago
Camping is a viable strategy in many Quake levels, and it is problematic to the point that many servers will kill you if you stay in one place for too long.
39.
by cout 10mo ago
Yes, Ralf Brown. I guess I'm getting old.
40.
by cout 10mo ago
If I were to write an OS for a system of that era, I think I would target a game console. Compatibility is a rabbit hole (as I discovered when writing a JIT for Ruby). If you don't have to worry about whether other software runs, there
41.
by cout 10mo ago
Risk was minimized with the use of segmented memory. A bad pointer would generally only clobber something in the same (data) segment of memory. But there were no segfaults; a program crash means a reboot, which is why so many people op
42.
by cout 10mo ago
I remember that book! I wanted to get a copy but made do with the DOS Programmer's Reference, 3rd ed., which was also very good since beej's interrupt list wasn't available yet or I didn't know about it.
43.
by cout 11mo ago
KDE got better some ways, but I would really like to be able to write an applet without learning QML and everything that goes with it. The learning curve feels higher than when I wrote my first Android app.
44.
by cout 11mo ago
There was a schism anyway (wayland vs mir). I was excited about both, though I never understood the difference between the two.
45.
by cout 11mo ago
That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/cout/windowfocus I bind Alt+Shift+H to run "windowfocus left", which figures out which window is "to the left" based on some heuristics such as the d
46.
by cout 11mo ago
Same here. Did yours have a fan or was it fanless?
47.
by cout 11mo ago
How does it compare to using icewm or fvwm95?
48.
Jim Weirich's Short License(github.com)
2 points by cout 11mo ago|1 comments
49.
by cout 11mo ago
"You are granted permission to read, copy, modify, redistribute this software or derivatives of this software." While Jim's more popular projects were usually MIT-licensed, Jim was once on a quest to find the world's sho
50.
by cout 11mo ago
This is the main reason I keep my PS/2 around with WordPerfect 5.1. Sure I can go browse the web with Minuet, or I used to before https everywhere, but that means saving and exiting WP. And 30+ years later I'm still waiting for
51.
by cout 11mo ago
Is 49M a lot?
52.
by cout 1y ago
The best argument made against comparing lcd and crt technologies comes at the end of the article. The author points out the absurdity of discussing what it's like to read a book using a zoomed-in image of one of the book's pages.
53.
by cout 1y ago
I find the noise of a crt much more pleasing than the noise of a bad lcd. To me the crt is musical but the lcd is shrill. I think hard drives are similar. There was something pleasing about the the 30MB ESDI in my first computer, but as ha
54.
by cout 1y ago
When I think of quirky conspiracy sites, I picture yellow-on-blue text and bright red text inside a blink element and links at the bottom to lycos and altavista.
55.
by cout 1y ago
Does watching or listening to baseball feel too fast-paced? I haven't played much attention to baseball in many years, but I agree with you, baseball is supposed to be slow.
56.
by cout 1y ago
I haven't answered on SO since someone edited my answer to say something I didn't write. It was minor, but I don't like that on principle. It adds huge personal risk to every question I answer.
57.
by cout 1y ago
SO wasn't even the first site with this phenomenon. IMO SO is way more cordial than some of the forums from the early 00s. And before that, many irc channels were known for being brutal to people coming for help. I was part of the p
58.
by cout 1y ago
This is a lot to chew on. Thank you.
59.
by cout 1y ago
I don't know about you, but I have trouble seeing other life forms in a room that is pitch black.
60.
by cout 1y ago
It is surprising to me that it is in the visible range.

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