Absolutely. I was, if anything, trying to caution against assuming that the segment the poster was in was the whole of the market. (Personally I think that the AVP market is too small for the modern Apple to care about,…
Hiya. Sorry, but you might not like what I have to say - I still hope that you read it all though. I doubt that this is the future. Maybe it is for a small number of people on HN, but outside of this site there's no way…
Windows 1-3 ran on top of DOS, with a small caveat for Windows 3.x Windows 3.x running in 386 Enhanced Mode had a very small multi-threaded preemptive kernel, which it used to handle its MS-DOS windows. So whilst each…
SMTP won because it was simpler, but it's probably good to look at why it was simpler. SMTP handled routing by piggybacking on DNS. When an email arrives the SMTP server looks at the domain part of the address, does a…
What I really liked about ZoneAlarm wasn't just that it was a very nice technology - and it was; but also that it got the user expectations and training right from a very early stage. It was quite insistent on the fact…
Yes and no. Yes. The incentives for writing reliable, robust code were much higher. The internet existed so you could, in theory, get a patch out for people to download - but a sizeable part of any user base might have…
Yo. Firstly, thanks for the trip down memory lane - well written, engaging, fun. My mind is still stuck in those days even after finishing the article, as you can tell from my anachronistic greeting. Secondly, as…
Not a bad article - thanks! Others are pointing out that you cannot understand everything - and that's true enough. But you only need to understand what's important. The experience of a good expert helps you to find…
Quite the nostalgia blast for me! I'm honestly not sure I had a machine with more than 2 fixed disks until well into the days of Windows 7 and SATA. The exception would be logical disks such as Stacker or similar…
Absolutely. I was, if anything, trying to caution against assuming that the segment the poster was in was the whole of the market. (Personally I think that the AVP market is too small for the modern Apple to care about,…
Hiya. Sorry, but you might not like what I have to say - I still hope that you read it all though. I doubt that this is the future. Maybe it is for a small number of people on HN, but outside of this site there's no way…
Windows 1-3 ran on top of DOS, with a small caveat for Windows 3.x Windows 3.x running in 386 Enhanced Mode had a very small multi-threaded preemptive kernel, which it used to handle its MS-DOS windows. So whilst each…
SMTP won because it was simpler, but it's probably good to look at why it was simpler. SMTP handled routing by piggybacking on DNS. When an email arrives the SMTP server looks at the domain part of the address, does a…
What I really liked about ZoneAlarm wasn't just that it was a very nice technology - and it was; but also that it got the user expectations and training right from a very early stage. It was quite insistent on the fact…
Yes and no. Yes. The incentives for writing reliable, robust code were much higher. The internet existed so you could, in theory, get a patch out for people to download - but a sizeable part of any user base might have…
Yo. Firstly, thanks for the trip down memory lane - well written, engaging, fun. My mind is still stuck in those days even after finishing the article, as you can tell from my anachronistic greeting. Secondly, as…
Not a bad article - thanks! Others are pointing out that you cannot understand everything - and that's true enough. But you only need to understand what's important. The experience of a good expert helps you to find…
Quite the nostalgia blast for me! I'm honestly not sure I had a machine with more than 2 fixed disks until well into the days of Windows 7 and SATA. The exception would be logical disks such as Stacker or similar…