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Fair enough if it’s not vibe coded, I’ll take your word for it. Code review seems like it’s mostly bots (Claude, Cursor, Greptile) from the PRs I looked at? Nevertheless, AI use is…

How much UI text does this thing have that it needs thousands of lines of localization? Where are these files? Especially curious because I see a whole lot of hardcoded english tex…

I don’t think so. I just used a public GitHub LoC counting tool directly on the repo, there are a few. https://ghloc.vercel.app/thunderbird/thunderbolt?branch=main claims 141k and …

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This is a pain, to be sure, but surely there is some sort of logic you could implement to detect whether a file is a Real File that actually exists on the device (if so, back it up…

It's a little interesting that they would pick Office 2000 as an example, since Office 97 and onwards do not use standard OS widgets -- it reimplements and draws them itself*. The …

To be more exact, I think the first great Pentium was the 133, but the 75 is the first that was a real, proper jump in performance from a fast 486 and represented decent price/perf…

I think it’s a bit of both. It absolutely tried very hard to pretend that it was a ”586” (Pentium class) but also ”5x” is right there and implies that if the DX4 is 4, this is 5. T…

This is almost exactly what the plan was, until C= went out of business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset It was going to be HP PA-RISC based and have an AGA Amig…

The 68060 is pretty good to be fair, but it never ended up being widely used and Motorola definitely saw PPC as the future. Maybe if these theoretical new 68k Amigas became a huge …

Yeah, it does alright and is a significant difference to a DX/2, but Quake came out in ’96 and the P60 came out as a super expensive workstation class CPU in ’93. If you were a gam…

The original Pentiums (socket 4, 60 or 66 MHz) had the infamous floating point division bug, had underwhelming perf for anything not FP bound (most things), ran hot, and were too e…

Especially since when actual clock quadrupled chips eventually came out they had to call themselves ridiculous things like ”5x86” instead of DX/4. (The Am5x86 133 runs at 4x33 MHz)…

Yeah, there were holdouts of course but the DX/2 really seems like the breaking point. (Also, a Pentium 60 is barely faster than a DX/2 66 at many tasks — it is a Bad Processor — b…

The CD32 chip actually had byte-per-pixel (chunky) graphics modes but the omission from the 1200 was fatal. I agree. Unfortunately, even with chunky graphics and/or 3D foresight, 6…

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The DX/2 66 is a true legend of a chip. It was so good. The final nail in the coffin for the Amiga and for 68k. I love the Amiga, but it just didn’t Doom. Before it, you could clai…

Unfortunately that’s an unacceptable security risk, especially for a government.

I haven't mentioned America or any other continent. It is the Europeans who are shouting about sovereignty right now. Well, no one has mentioned computer hardware until you did. Su…

The same is not true in Europe, so there's not a huge Dell, HP, or IBM equivalent. In the 90s and up until the early 00s we used to have quite a few pretty serious contenders, but …

Sometimes organizations need to undertake work that is not friction free to achieve longer term goals.

> are there any machines still running on a Z80? A LOT of them. Zilog only announced its discontinuation in 2024. But that also means that there are A LOT of them out there, and th…

The Commodore REU (RAM Expansion Unit) architecture for the C64/C128 allows for up to 16 MiB - 256 banks of 256 addresses in 256 pages. Due to the lack of support hardware in the C…