I once had Debian running on a Macintosh LC II w/10MB of RAM - it was a cool technical feat, but not incredibly usableDevelopment of Linux started on a 386 with 4 MB RAM. In18911991.
I once had Debian running on a Macintosh LC II w/10MB of RAM - it was a cool technical feat, but not incredibly usableDevelopment of Linux started on a 386 with 4 MB RAM. In18911991.
It's all that matters. I still enjoy these games today. Full-screen DOSBox... and I'm right at home.If it did what you needed it to do, that's good![]()
I've said elsewhere that NoScript is essential to me when dealing with the modern web.Some of them are awful to navigate, even with modern browsers lol.
This might get me in trouble, but allow me to go slightly off topic and point out what I consider one of the most amazing human achievements of all time: we sent a rocket to the moon using physical bits and only 40 KB of physical (non-volatile) memory (10-bit word x 16,000 words per module x 2 modules for redundancy / 8 bits per byte).
Mind you, that's for the Saturn V guidance system and there were more computer systems in Apollo, but still. 40 KB is crazy to steer a rocket to the MOON.
If you want to nerd out and lose an hour or two of your time, this is for you:
And now back to your regularly scheduled PowerPC program =)
I never, ever knew anyone with a Tandy or a Sinclair, and these only ever seemed to show up locally in the annual merchandise catalogues of the two local versions of a Sears or Eaton’s: a place called Houston Jewelry (yes, the weird American spelling) and another at a competing place called Best Jewelry (no idea, in hindsight, why one went to buy electronics and TVs at a jewellery superstore).
It's all that matters. I still enjoy these games today. Full-screen DOSBox... and I'm right at home.
I've said elsewhere that NoScript is essential to me when dealing with the modern web.Seeing just how much some sites have going on "in the background" is mind-boggling.
Yeah. I wonder who puts up with that nonsense.YouTube for example would be unbearable without an ad-blocker. A few years ago there was a brief moment where my now abandoned Adblock Plus failed to filter out the adverts and I was bombarded with them every five minutes. That's even worse than broadcast TV!
degrade gracefully with older browsers
Yeah. It's meant for 10.4 and 10.5. I could never get it to build or run on anything older.
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Web developersKIDS THESE DAYS… DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM WEB SITESwhose functions and rendering degrade gracefullyWORK ON MY CLASSIC COMPUTER
< /old_woman_with_hearing_aid_with_weak_batteries >
For real, though: sometime in these last five years, the preponderance of sites which have just said, “F this” when it comes to making sure their sites’ layouts degrade gracefully with older browsers has advanced, side-by-side, with the re-vamping of sites designed principally, if not wholly, for use with glass UIs (and which, arguably, has made those sites less information-rich and more “fluffy” in terms of big eye candy — to, again, prioritize the kludgy universe of glass UIs and soft phalanges mashing that glass, clumsily).
I’m not a fan.
It's all that matters. I still enjoy these games today. Full-screen DOSBox... and I'm right at home.
I've said elsewhere that NoScript is essential to me when dealing with the modern web.Seeing just how much some sites have going on "in the background" is mind-boggling.
Back in 2009 I did a two paper online course in online learning. The W3C (world wide web consortium ) had a policy that the WWW is for everyone..including the blind. (They have speech readers.) And so it should be designed so everyone can use it..no matter how basic their hardware.< old_woman_with_hearing_aid_with_weak_batteries >
Web developersKIDS THESE DAYS… DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM WEB SITESwhose functions and rendering degrade gracefullyWORK ON MY CLASSIC COMPUTER
< /old_woman_with_hearing_aid_with_weak_batteries >
For real, though: sometime in these last five years, the preponderance of sites which have just said, “F this” when it comes to making sure their sites’ layouts degrade gracefully with older browsers has advanced, side-by-side, with the re-vamping of sites designed principally, if not wholly, for use with glass UIs (and which, arguably, has made those sites less information-rich and more “fluffy” in terms of big eye candy — to, again, prioritize the kludgy universe of glass UIs and soft phalanges mashing that glass, clumsily).
I’m not a fan.
I remember an Apple II with 64KB of RAM & a 5.25" floppy drive as being the Cadillac of personal computers. My own first computer (as a teenager), an Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P, has 8KB of RAM (& saves programs to cassette tape).I fess up my (implied) age as I remember clearly how when the real barnburner of on-board, high-end PC RAM was the 128KB threshold — especially when there was discussion of making it affordable enough to conceivably have at home like an Apple ][+, VIC-20, Atari 400/800, or C-64.
This also would have been just a minute before the birth of the Macintosh 128K: the IBM PC XT. We’d heard of 128K being on the mythical Apple ///, but quite literally no one we know knew anyone who had actually owned one, much less seen one. [There was also the Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, but I never, ever knew anyone with a Tandy or a Sinclair, and these only ever seemed to show up locally in the annual merchandise catalogues of the two local versions of a Sears or Eaton’s: a place called Houston Jewelry (yes, the weird American spelling) and another at a competing place called Best Jewelry (no idea, in hindsight, why one went to buy electronics and TVs at a jewellery superstore).]
We all knew the /// existed, because it would turn up in magazine ads every rare once in a while, but it was, functionally, fairy dust for almost everyone. So the closest we ever expected to run across the possibility of 128K in a PC was seeing an IBM PC in XT form ( the former of which I had seen a total of once before in someone’s house, and nowhere close to my neighbourhood!), but it would have had something like 16, 32, or 64K.
I love the Punkt MP02 for a similar reason: it’s running (bare-bones) Android but the UI is 100% text, like a mid-1990’s cellphone. Freaking awesome.Amazing that they can take such a bare bones sort of system and make it look sophisticated ..and yet still simple to use.
thats a nice looking design.I love the Punkt MP02 for a similar reason: it’s running (bare-bones) Android but the UI is 100% text, like a mid-1990’s cellphone. Freaking awesome.