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Does anyone know why Dennis Ritchie's screenshot has all that noise? It's almost like it was printed and then scanned back.
http://regex.info/exif.cgi?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fanders.unix....
A good old Russian site linux.org.ru has a huge archive of Linux screenshots (1999-), you should check it out http://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/archive/
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> This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware. Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in "dead" state and only solution was to restart and not to mention those frequent BSOD. There was a reason why…
"Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in "dead" state and only solution was to restart and not to mention those frequent BSOD. There was a reason why we were advised that we should save our work often because the whole thing was so damn unreliable." This is all true, but those are problems with the OS , not the UI. The OS was terrible. The UI (NT4…
I feel like these days Windows has the opposite problem as you describe. The kernel is OK but explorer.exe sucks at copying directories.
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For personal reasons he doesn't have a personal internet connection at all. He has some sort of bot that he emails links to and it sends the source (or plaintext?) back to him for reading. (At least it was like that a couple of years ago) I believe he also has issues with non-free JavaScript which I suppose precludes him from using websites that use JavaScript (or I guess he could block it).
As of a few months ago, he has been browsing the web (sometimes) using IceCat and Tor. https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
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I remember when I had a ~100mhz Cyrix 4/586 clone that I used to do desktop publishing (Photoshop, Quark, etc) in the mid-late 1990s. Plenty fast for that, but it could on play 128kbps MP3s if nothing else was running. I would have a tape deck hooked up to to the audio out so I could make cassette tapes for my car from MP3s. That got replaced with a actual 166mhz Pentium MMX. That one had no problem playing MP3s alon…
That last sentence brought back some memories for me, like when the ABIT BP6 motherboard came out (it was the first of its kind). I just HAD to have one, so I got one and stuck a pair of 500 MHz Celerons in it. That thing was sooooo faaaast! It was so much more powerful than my previous machines (a 486SX/25 w/ 4 MB of RAM and then a P100 w/ 32 MB of RAM)! I remember putting it together and wondering "how am I ever go…
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> clean and neat Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel? I think I used every MS operating system starting with DOS, and I miss exactly none of the "historic" interfaces. To the extent I get annoyed when institutional IT departments force you to use the "classic" theme on modern windows boxes ("It's faster!" - no, it isn't to any human perceptible degree, and I appreciate not having to st…
> You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel? Compared to aluminium-gray-and-no-blue OS X? I don't think mainstream UIs have much to boast about in terms of the evolution of colour palettes.
Likewise, you can't put OSX and win95 next to each other and say "they're both grey, therefore they are basically the same" because that's obviously rubbish - the shading, layout, spacing, and shapes of osx are much more pleasing because they benefit from years of refinement by people who are visual designers rather than engineers.
