You think talking MS-DOS TSR's dates you? How about 8 bit Commodore 64, assigning the vertical blanking interrupt to a SID player or similar.
On Feb 4, 4:36 pm, RogerV <rog...@qwest.net> wrote: > On Jan 30, 9:12 pm, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net> > wrote: > > > But as I think about it, I'm taking a new perspective. We all think > > that "in the future" we will have simpler, cleaner easier to use, > > "Minority Report" devices. But until that happens, we all *need* unix > > shells and root access to get anything done. Progress in computing is > > limited by our attachment to the past. I believe Apple are trying to > > get us closer to the future. Obviously, the geekier of us who are > > used to total control over a system will revolt against it. > > Sadly I date myself but we've lived all this before - back in the day > of MS-DOS TSR (terminate and stay resident) applications. > > Those were eventually deemed too limiting relative to an OS offering a > true multi-processing and multi-tasking approach. > > Is rather strange to see Apple steering the 21st century of computing > back to the 1980s. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
