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Why is that?
The acting is horrible. The writing is terrible. The story veers off into areas unrelated. There is a moment of a thoroughly unrelated homosexual encounter. (What was the point of that?!) Moments I know that are so really stretched too far to be believable. And on and on. So bad I couldn't finish the series.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that?
The acting is horrible. The writing is terrible. The story veers off into areas unrelated. There is a moment of a thoroughly unrelated homosexual encounter. (What was the point of that?!) Moments I know that are so really stretched too far to be believable. And on and on. So bad I couldn't finish the series.
and what fiction have you ever written?
I lived through that era, too. As historical fiction, HACF is pretty decent. "areas unrelated" -- hello, it's FICTION about a specific era, and, without knowing what specifically you're talking about: maybe those "unrelated" areas are period-setting, or character-developing.
HACF not for you. Let's leave it at that. You can't please everyone.
> Unlike all of its major rivals—including the Apple II—the IBM PC was built > with an open architecture.
The Apple II, designed by Woz, is famously open, to the point the original model came with full schematics and ROM listings which made it trivially cloneable. I'm curious why this isn't considered an open architecture.
>> His divisional heads always had the same answer. Microcomputers—home computing—were a fad. They were low-cost and low-profit. Let others scrabble around in the metaphorical dirt of home computing. The real money was in the markets that IBM’s divisions already dominated—selling vast mainframes and minicomputer systems to large businesses. Cary was even told to buy Atari, which by then had established itself as Amer…
Reminds me of Kodak.
There is very little penalty for being wrong. There is often a huge penalty for being right, if the powers-that-be opposed you.
For people who are interested in this era, Halt and Catch Fire is a terrific portrayal of the sorts of characters and battles that defined it, albeit from more of a startup perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWrioRji60A
The character of Cameron was highly inspired by Romero. In fact, the book Masters of Doom is kind of a blueprint for the show in some ways
I'm a bit curious about this part of the article: > Unlike all of its major rivals—including the Apple II—the IBM PC was built > with an open architecture. The Apple II, designed by Woz, is famously open, to the point the original model came with full schematics and ROM listings which made it trivially cloneable. I'm curious why this isn't considered an open architecture.
Just like posting source code does not make the code open, publishing schematics does not make the design open.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that?
The acting is horrible. The writing is terrible. The story veers off into areas unrelated. There is a moment of a thoroughly unrelated homosexual encounter. (What was the point of that?!) Moments I know that are so really stretched too far to be believable. And on and on. So bad I couldn't finish the series.
I'm a bit curious about this part of the article: > Unlike all of its major rivals—including the Apple II—the IBM PC was built > with an open architecture. The Apple II, designed by Woz, is famously open, to the point the original model came with full schematics and ROM listings which made it trivially cloneable. I'm curious why this isn't considered an open architecture.
Apple II hand proprietary design. You could not clone it legally. Just like posting source code does not make the code open, publishing schematics does not make the design open.
it's true that eventually Apple started suing people, but until Apple vs Franklin it was unclear if you could even copyright a BIOS. And once that was determined, people had to clean-room reverse engineer the BIOS but it was possible to make clones (see the Laser 128 and many many others)
this is just as open as the IBM PC was. You couldn't just drop a copy of the PC bios into your clone, you had to go to a 3rd-party reverse-engineered BIOS