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Where are the UNIX APIs on watchOS? Having fun with writing CLI apps and daemons for the watch? Plus POSIX support in IoT like devices exists since ages.
watchOS lets you call much of the UNIX APIs, you (as third-party developer) just aren’t allowed to make command-line tools and daemons.
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watchOS lets you call much of the UNIX APIs, you (as third-party developer) just aren’t allowed to make command-line tools and daemons.
Try to make a watchOS app only with UNIX APIs.
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Well, yes, if Intel had no competition at all they might have been able to force whatever garbage on the market.
I actually liked Itanium and don't see it as garbage, and see as an unfortunate turn of events that I am not running one on this laptop. Also don't get the point of the cheering for AMD, because apparently many don't get that without Intel licenses, which depend on Intel existence, AMD won't have much to play with anyway.
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Try to make a watchOS app only with UNIX APIs.
Try to make an app on any platform only with UNIX APIs? GUI toolkits and other platform frameworks always exist.
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Very unlikely that IBM would have used the 8088 without a second source - so literally Intel needed firms like AMD.
So what were the second source from all major IBM computers throughout its history?
"However, IBM required that Intel find a second-source supplier because production had to be guaranteed and it was too risky to rely on a single company as the sole source of its chips."
https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-the-x86-archit...
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This complaint is about more than mere website formatting (per HN guidelines). There's now 11 distinct reply threads of fragmented discussion to dig into, for anyone that might be interested. Hokusai is right to complain about this. And people savvy enough to write the article should know better. Post it on a blog and tweet the link. How hard is that?
It is hard, some people are plainly incapable of expressing themselves in article form. Or refuse to. There was plenty of shaming already and it did not help.
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So what were the second source from all major IBM computers throughout its history?
Sorry, don't know what point you're making here. "However, IBM required that Intel find a second-source supplier because production had to be guaranteed and it was too risky to rely on a single company as the sole source of its chips." https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-the-x86-archit...
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Sorry, don't know what point you're making here. "However, IBM required that Intel find a second-source supplier because production had to be guaranteed and it was too risky to rely on a single company as the sole source of its chips." https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/intel-and-the-x86-archit...
That was a first for IBM, and althought not mentioned there I seem to recall it had something to do with selling PC to the goverment as well.
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Yeah. "How do we make the Wii run Game Cube games? We cheat by putting a Game Cube in the Wii!" It's a playful use of the term.
Or for us old [feeling] folks: it’s “cheating” by getting a world map and playing through the puzzles and minibosses we would still encounter... not getting a Game Genie and sliding under Mother Brain. Edit: Lol I know, downvote away, icgaf I haven’t played a game besides minesweeper in months.
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That was a first for IBM, and althought not mentioned there I seem to recall it had something to do with selling PC to the goverment as well.
I seem to recall that IBM had second source rights to the 8088 too which presumably made the choice easier.