Aaaaand the purity continues: http://www.eurodroid.com/2010/02/power-crazed-apple-demands-developer-axes-mention-of-android-from-iphone-app/
On Feb 4, 10:25 pm, Peter Becker <peter.becker...@gmail.com> wrote: > The days when "soft scrolling" was an impressive feat. But working with > some guys who started with punch cards and soldering irons I don't try > to pull the "been here for long" card anymore :-) > > One day I might go to Warpstock, though -- after all that is still an > annual conference, so OS/2 just can't be dead. > > Peter > > On 04/02/10 19:50, Christian Catchpole wrote: > > > > > 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.
