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Seeing all this DEC love makes me really happy. My mom worked for the company throughout most of my childhood, and when DEC was bought out, it was like there was a death in the family.
Lutris open gaming platform is one you didn't mention it works better than wine and sometimes when proton doesn't not used it much . I got lucky back when microsoft released a 3 pak of windows 7 for only 99 dollars saying it a upgrade for families with more than one pc too bad they didn't keep that thinking going they might have survived if anyone didn't notice yet ms is dying a slow death and will soon be irrelevant in the market
I ran a Fidonet node in 1992. Today, I work with OpenShift and Kubernetes. I can not believe I'm in the middle of the Venn diagram. sort of. 😮 Brill video, cheers!
Its a mistery how DOS and windows became the Staple OS, being so unfinished and incomplete, considering there were things much better suited. My late Dad (apple II peripheral manufacturer) used to say Apple II miracle was due to its expansion slots and the possibility to be tinkered. And soon Apple killed it, removing all the slots and not even allowing the user to open its case. This decision favoured IBM PC standard that had much smaller acceptance, but geeks migrated to it instantly while apple insisted in releasing expensive and closed systems, that appealed more to a vanity or rich american market. Although having apple a much more finished and of Good Taste OS. (as Jobs used to say).
I used the OS/2 server because Lotus Notes version 3 ran on OS/2 and Windows NT and the Windows NT server was new at the time and the pre-Warp OS/2 server was proven stable. Many BBS servers ran OS/2 to run multiple DOS sessions and Windows 3.1 didn't do that. Windows 3.1 and earlier was a GUI on top of DOS.
The overlap is far from just you; a lot of us older Infra guys grew up in the BBS scene, and it was great seeing you address how to use modern infra for old-school BBSes. Thanks for the good time!
"Well, it's not like some rando company no one's heard of will reverse-engineer our proprietary technology in a totally maliciously-compliant and legally novel way..." >COMPAQ heavy breathing intensifies...
I'm glad that Colossus had a tele-typewriter. I can't imagine using anything else in that era. I've programmed mainframe with a modified true teletype. No screens until later.
I have NEVER EVER heard "Adobe" pronounced with just two syllables before.
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Too rosy. While the Octane was released in 1997, with standard Pentium MMX as the common user era, The Octane 2 was released in 2000. Computers had Vodoos 2 and Vodoo3 (just released) and Nvidia TNT2 Ultra. They could run Doom and even Quake III at that speed in full screen. Octane2 shined in Memory and capable of heavy duty hard 3d tasks that those machines could not. Video Memory of the Nvidia was 32MB where the Octane could have up to 8GB of RAM in the year 2000. Most pentium III motherboards had a maximun of 512MB. And just the brand new, being 256MB of RAM the maximum most motherboards had.
You could have asked to my french friend who has a small channel called Rodrik Studio, he has this 286 card also and did a video about it few years back.
"If you connected a modem to a dumb serial terminal" That's exactly how I first got on BBSes in 1986 - a 300 baud modem and an ADM3A dumb serial terminal. I lived in a small rural community, but we had a huge local online community (comparatively). About a dozen BBSes and several hundred users in the local calling area. Unfortunately we never had anything like Fidonet that would connect us to other BBS communities. One of the biggest local BBSes had an annual summer party where all the users could meet each other. Good times.
When it comes to SPARC, I have a bit of an obscure history that I am 100% use none of you have ever heard of before. An Iranian company name Parse Semiconductor actually made a bunch of small, embedded-oriented SPARC CPUs in Iran. Yes, Iran, country in the middle east Iran. This obscure bit of history is almost completely lost nowadays lol.
Thanks for this fantastic video! I was completely unaware of this and I will not try now to build a DOS gaming system with my pentium pro system 🙂 I remember that a Pentium Pro was high on my wishlist back in the 90s but after spending my school holidays working I had to settle for a dual pentium MMX as the pro was just too expensive. But my whole bubble was talking about the speed improvements but I was a Linux user since 1997 so nobody talked about the downside on DOS and Windows software.
@@RetroBytesUK that is true. At least for the second run. The first kernel I used was 2.0.29 where SMP was still experimental and you had to turn it on in the Makefile. After that was solved make -j was quite a blast. Although I remember it sometimes failed and then worked single threaded. I never looked into it too closely but always considered it as a race condition.
The foam in those enclosures is probably the bit of a teletype that has aged the least well. I have a friend who spent months cleaning bit rotted of rotted foam out of his teletype. The bits had worked their way in to everything.
Since you mentioned Elite, Alexander the OK did an excellent video on it, and it's a fascinating deep dive into the challenges facing a programmer in the age of the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. The game with the border (name escapes me at time of writing) reminded me of the game Revs, which got around memory limitations by using video memory to store data in the sky and then tricking the display into showing that area in blue. If the game crashed, the sky would be replaced with garbage.
I always heard nothing but good things. Then again my friend are the types that run modern software on dumpster hardware tossed out of corporate environments. A quad Pentium pro system running XP pro was not only a powerhouse, but also kept you nice and warm on a cold winter night!
I remember my mother used to work at the main office for a regional bank back in the late 90s. They still used the big single reels of tape. Whole room full of them, one wall of tapes always spooling and unspooling.
It sold so poorly, you had this brand new boxed, after 28 years, wow. It was a Lemon, 'coz it was a flawed design, ShIntel and their dumb mistakes, Itanium/Itanic was another and many more, like selling a 8088 CPU or so, as a Microcontroller, etc; they're flawed period, not well thought out ideas and even a worse implementation. Your background music is too loud and you need to vocalize better so what you're saying is clearer
The biggest problem bbs is it needs pbx or much more land line with modems if not only one line with modem when one person connected no one got connected because the line busy. Then internet came out ftp solve this issue
Imagine looking back and you were the one in charge of BeOS that let the deal walk out the door that could have made your grandkid's grandkids rich LOL. I have never even heard of them and I am a 30 year+ mac user. Damn that is rough! hahahahaha
my high school hsd novell for xp in the 2010s! good times sending madd messages and hiding files on the file shares. also used a hex editor to mess with strings in shared programs. a malicious student could have done far worse lol
To be fair the idea sounds good, kind of makes me think of the role that microcode has now and some of the pipelines they've tacked on to modern cpus like avx.
