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Re: SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

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Post by dragonwriter »

lallysingh wrote: post #26

Why does every OS screenshot (not from a big company) always have to have a few pictures of women in it? It's ridiculously unprofessional in my book.

Uh, it has (at least, by conventional stereotypes; I don't know the actual gender identity of the individuals involved, at least some of whom are fictional) women’s headshots, a man (though this might not be apparent in the actual image without being familiar with the source image), a male demonic figure, and a reptilian beast that doesn't particularly have strong gender indications.

So, is your complaint that it I closed female-appearing figures at all, or...what, exactly?

Re: SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

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Post by pkaye »

wolfgke wrote: post #41
lallysingh wrote: post #26

Why does every OS screenshot (not from a big company) always have to have a few pictures of women in it? It's ridiculously unprofessional in my book.

> Why does every OS screenshot (not from a big company) always have to have a few pictures of women in it? > It's ridiculously unprofessional in my book. If it were pictures of men, people would complain that there are no women included in the pictures people (i.e. women are discriminated against). You can't be everybody's darling.

Maybe half women and half men.

Re: SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

ddevault wrote: post #9

Symbos is pretty cool but it's a crying shame that it's closed source. A lot of people in the z80 community don't understand the value of open source, but will give away binaries for free.

MenuetOS also suffers this problem. The 64 bit version is closed-source/non-Free, but available free of charge. Great way to limit wider interest in the project, and they're not even making bank. They get to spite the people who'd want to fork the project, I guess.

The D programming language also had this problem for a long time (closed-source/non-Free compiler backend), but thankfully no longer.

Re: SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

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Post by ersii »

dragonwriter wrote: post #48
ersii wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it terribly stereotypical and prejudicial of you to determine their sexes based on their exterior appearances. Why does every comment about there being only women in OS screenshots stereotype bodies? P.S This is a joke. Serious people who care about other people don't really care about this type of gender thing at all.

While it would be more accurate to say that it contains “only figures that conform to female body stereotypes” rather than “only women”, to the extent the latter is an issue of any kind, the former is an issue of the same general class (in fact, I don't think the people complaining about the former would actually be concerned at all if it was the former but not the latter); further, in the case of images where he ind…

Thanks, I'll try to be mindful when I'm stereotyping and joking about upset gender people and remember this to improve the quality of the joke the next time!

Re: SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

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Post by CyberShadow »

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #53
ddevault wrote: post #9

Symbos is pretty cool but it's a crying shame that it's closed source. A lot of people in the z80 community don't understand the value of open source, but will give away binaries for free.

MenuetOS also suffers this problem. The 64 bit version is closed-source/non-Free, but available free of charge. Great way to limit wider interest in the project, and they're not even making bank. They get to spite the people who'd want to fork the project, I guess. The D programming language also had this problem for a long time (closed-source/non-Free compiler backend), but thankfully no longer.

Tiny correction: the reference D compiler's source code was available, but its backend was not Free Software (it was non-redistributable). This was not by choice of its authors, but due to a historical IP/licensing snag. Today it is fully open-source.

Re: SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

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Post by delinka »

wolfgke wrote: post #44
bluejekyll wrote: post #13

The Z80 will always have a place in my heart. Mostly because we used it in college to build a computer from scratch on a wire board. That was an awesome project, and one of the classes that I remember fondly from nearly 18 years ago.

What year was that?

2018 - 18 = 2000

Maybe 1999 since the fact that it's 2018 is still maybe too fresh to have imprinted on many minds.

Maybe 2001 since GP says "nearly 18 years."

Re: SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System

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Post by tincholio »

randomerr wrote: post #16

It reminds me of the Contiki OS. I wish the project was still going. It seems to have slowed down to crawl. http://www.contiki-os.org/

Adam Dunkels, the main guy behind contiki (and just an awesome dude, all around), went on to found thingsquare. I guess that's probably where new development is happening...
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