I'd suggest reading the history of Digital Research, Inc. and Gary Kildall to get a more rounded perspective on this story.
To me at least, it makes much better sense to go all-in on a MiSTer, rather than gradually frankenstein-ing the build with ARM or FPGA-based chips. There's money to be made trying to maintain these 40+ year old units…
I was really hopeful for OS/2 Warp as a mainstream desktop OS when it came out, even though they grossly understated the memory requirements (it really needed 8mb) I think the death knell was ultimately WIN-OS2 which…
So, the only person in the world this will piss off, is Richard Stallman. Got it.
May the lights of our homes dim in his memory.
NASA is really good at planning future missions. Implementing them? I've heard hundreds of fantastical half-baked ideas and very few of them materialize over the course of my 46 years on earth.
I'd suggest reading the history of Digital Research, Inc. and Gary Kildall to get a more rounded perspective on this story.
To me at least, it makes much better sense to go all-in on a MiSTer, rather than gradually frankenstein-ing the build with ARM or FPGA-based chips. There's money to be made trying to maintain these 40+ year old units…
I was really hopeful for OS/2 Warp as a mainstream desktop OS when it came out, even though they grossly understated the memory requirements (it really needed 8mb) I think the death knell was ultimately WIN-OS2 which…
So, the only person in the world this will piss off, is Richard Stallman. Got it.
May the lights of our homes dim in his memory.
NASA is really good at planning future missions. Implementing them? I've heard hundreds of fantastical half-baked ideas and very few of them materialize over the course of my 46 years on earth.