green_leaves

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by green_leaves 2y ago
Norway data from statcounter doesn't seem reliable. In just 4 months, July->October 2024, there's a 14% upswing in iphone total marketshare. Which implies that at least 14% of users bought a new phone, assuming (wrongly) that e
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by green_leaves 3y ago
You can see USB ports in computer adverstised in the magazine I linked. Laptops and desktops alike. A majority of PC chipsets had support for it since at least Aug97: https://www.anandtech.com/show/72 It's true ho
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by green_leaves 3y ago
You didn't bother to check an easy source. Another one: USB support was standard in chipsets for Intel and AMD chips. Aug97 link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/72
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by green_leaves 3y ago
Windows 95 OSR2 got official USB support in Aug97.
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by green_leaves 3y ago
The change to USB was on the move already much before the iMac launches. Just check magazines since the end of 97, there are reviews of products before the launch. The iMac rode the wave with the rest. Sure a few USB peripherals would have
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by green_leaves 3y ago
Check my other comment for data and arguments. USB was already pretty much standard in new PCs and all kind of peripherals were available many months before iMac release. By the time the iMac was released the yearly computer sales were in t
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by green_leaves 3y ago
I'm not sidestepping it. My point was of mass market adoption and innovation. I remember testing the original iMac at a computer trade fair back in it's day, and I was not impressed at all. For me it was a cheap looking plastic co
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by green_leaves 3y ago
USB ports not only existed, but were standard in new PCs. A quick search shows peripherals and monitors with USB hubs in PC World May-1998 (4/5 months before iMac launch). From that months number (Pages 172-184): "UNTIL RECENTLY ,
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by green_leaves 3y ago
I pretty much see adoption of technology as innovation. Not technical innovation for sure, but innovation in the sense of significant improvement over other solutions. Don't you consider the original Mac adoption of the 3.5" flop
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by green_leaves 3y ago
> The iMac gets remembered for a lot of things, and rightly so, but it doesn’t get enough credit for essentially kick-starting the USB revolution That's not true. USB ports were already standard before the iMac release. A quick chec
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by green_leaves 3y ago
Not an original PC game, but the PC port of Caveman Ninja, VGA and also from 1991, was amazing. Smooth parallax scroll with tons of sprites in screen. It recently got a remake on Steam.
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by green_leaves 3y ago
I remember playing that game in CGA (and speaker) back in the day. Fond memories :)