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An amazing thing I was reminded of just yesterday is that COD4:Modern Warfare ran on the PS3, with 256MB RAM.

I think "Code was never the hardest part" is more fair. Code itself can absolutely be difficult, but it's seldom the most difficult part of a project. Generally the hard part is ac…

It seems to me that some companies are looking to move off COBOL and mainframes to say Linux and Java, because that is what someone was employed to do, not because it's necessarily…

I think there has probably always been gaps between what marketing wants to sell, what management wants to prioritise, what programmers want to make, what customers say they want, …

Realistically only macOS runs on Macs, Linux worked on the early M series but not later models, as far as I know.

In Australia, it wouldn't even need to be a used PC. The Steam Machine is $1600 AUD here, you can get a brand new gaming PC for that. Not a particularly amazing machine of course, …

Made me think of Breadbox Ensemble, which is GEOS, and was really lovely.

Free OS updates is the norm now though. If you'd bought a Windows PC 7 years ago, or used Linux, or just about any other desktop OS, you'd have had free updates.

The Framework 12 look lovely, I like the design a lot, but like other Framework computers, it's just far too expensive for what it is. The processor inside it is approaching 4 year…

This seems as much like "sleep" as when a laptop "sleeps".

I thought the same. If it had a Kia badge on it, it wouldn't shock me, and I think Kia make some quite nice cars now. I don't like the interior. I think this style can work for som…

I used RISC OS as my main platform in the nineties and still play with it now. With small screens, I agree with you on how saving works on RISC OS, but it really comes into its own…

Indeed it is subjective, I think the "Krups" was beautiful.

We had this at a job I had many years ago. We had a Sun Niagara system with some Sun Rays attached, and I had a Sun Ray laptop at home, on the other side of the world. Office in Lo…

If I was going to write something for free, it would some weird itch-scratching thing for Plan 9 or something, it wouldn't be something most people would ever want. Realistically t…

That's what I mean, no actual processor model.

Am I missing something or is the article avoiding saying what Intel processor they are using?

They're 18650 cells, a bit bigger than AA.

GPUs existed in the 1960s, but apparently Sony invented the actual term "GPU" in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit#1990s

Glad to see I'm not the only person that noticed the lack of SGI stuff.

Agree, and this is my point. Apple absolutely has a very clear message on how developers should make software, but as you say, developers often do not care. I am a desktop app "bel…

When a platform can’t answer “how should I build a UI?” in under ten seconds, it has failed its developers. Full stop. That's fine, except no platform answers this. Obviously Linux…

Safari is a monopoly on iOS and iPadOS, that's a problem if you want to make a bleeding-edge PWA app, in that it's probably not going to work very well on iPad and iPhone and there…

Perhaps not single thread, but Rock was a dead end a while before Oracle pulled the plug, and Sun/Oracle's core market of course was always servers not workstations. We used Niagar…

I haven't used Solaris since the last time I used it for work over 10 years ago. Agree ZFS and Zones are both exceptional, I would still use Solaris now where it made sense.