> it took almost 20 years for the underlying infrastructure to get mature enough to get mass consumer adoption. I don't know if you were on the Internet in 1998. I was. The Web was useful, mature, and had tens of…
Did you even bother to read the article you linked to? The citations make it quite clear that the terms were synonymous, and it was multiple groups (not just the Bolsheviks) who referred to the October Bolshevik…
> Xerox parc did in fact release nothing to the general public iirc. Right, just because you haven't bothered to look it up, it doesn't exist. Here are just the Xerox PARC work that was commercialized by Xerox I can…
It was a PDP-10 at Harvard, and it was not just Gates, it was Gates and Paul Allen working on it together. Another interesting thing is that the PDP-10 was being paid for by Department of Defense grants, and when an…
I would strongly disagree on the Bill Gates part. The early Microsoft compilers (yes, Microsoft started out as a compiler company) were by all accounts not that great. The really successful and technically impressive…
> After 4 or 5 years of doing this you'll maybe know enough about how "everthing works" and what books says how to do what, or what company did what in what way, or the "state of the art", at that time you can start…
This is why antitrust legislation and enforcement is so important.
I have three laptops, two run OpenBSD, the other one Debian stable. Not sure how well battery utilization compares (don't need battery for more than an hour usually). Both work fine, and from a user-space perspective…
There is also GNU Shepherd[1] on GuixSD[2], a declarative init system, without systemd's million-plus lines of shitty code[3] and massive scope creep into everything that you can (but probably don't need or want to) do…
> Electron apps... there is no way to automatically build Electron apps for any of the BSDs. This is one of many reasons not to use Electron. Claims of Electron portability are a sham.
How do you organize the s-expressions? Interlisp offered what you describe: structured storage, with "in-place" structured editing, for code and data. The unit of organization was still the file; you just had structured…
> it took almost 20 years for the underlying infrastructure to get mature enough to get mass consumer adoption. I don't know if you were on the Internet in 1998. I was. The Web was useful, mature, and had tens of…
Did you even bother to read the article you linked to? The citations make it quite clear that the terms were synonymous, and it was multiple groups (not just the Bolsheviks) who referred to the October Bolshevik…
> Xerox parc did in fact release nothing to the general public iirc. Right, just because you haven't bothered to look it up, it doesn't exist. Here are just the Xerox PARC work that was commercialized by Xerox I can…
It was a PDP-10 at Harvard, and it was not just Gates, it was Gates and Paul Allen working on it together. Another interesting thing is that the PDP-10 was being paid for by Department of Defense grants, and when an…
I would strongly disagree on the Bill Gates part. The early Microsoft compilers (yes, Microsoft started out as a compiler company) were by all accounts not that great. The really successful and technically impressive…
> After 4 or 5 years of doing this you'll maybe know enough about how "everthing works" and what books says how to do what, or what company did what in what way, or the "state of the art", at that time you can start…
This is why antitrust legislation and enforcement is so important.
I have three laptops, two run OpenBSD, the other one Debian stable. Not sure how well battery utilization compares (don't need battery for more than an hour usually). Both work fine, and from a user-space perspective…
There is also GNU Shepherd[1] on GuixSD[2], a declarative init system, without systemd's million-plus lines of shitty code[3] and massive scope creep into everything that you can (but probably don't need or want to) do…
> Electron apps... there is no way to automatically build Electron apps for any of the BSDs. This is one of many reasons not to use Electron. Claims of Electron portability are a sham.
How do you organize the s-expressions? Interlisp offered what you describe: structured storage, with "in-place" structured editing, for code and data. The unit of organization was still the file; you just had structured…