Posts by MJI 6874 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2009
I still use a few MSDOS tools, our own current stuff is WIN32. The escape route from them is dot net.
If MS abandon WIN32, will other OS providers support them instead?
I am fed up of OSes dropping support for software, Why do MS forget that small companies exist, that programmers die. Dead programmers code works as well as anyone elses.
Oh and for MSDOS, thanks for the suggestion, I will try DOSEMU on my dual boot XP Mint PC
The CPUs on the new consoles are not exactly powerful. (CPU side of CPGPU)
Now I THINK the X360 CPU was 3 core but 3.2GHz, the Cell was 7 or 8 core at 3.2GHz.
Now the X1 is slightly higher clocked than the PS4. But still a lot slower than PPC
Anyway well done on achieving it.
The ONLY way Sony have any hope of doing the same is to emulate SPU on the GPU.
In fact it is possible still that Cell is the most powerfull CPU (not including GPU) ever in a console, someone who knows please let me know.
>>>>>...never let it near a Vauxhall dealership.
That won't happen, I went there about 18 months ago to see if any decent used cars on Notwork Q, basically anything with diff at the back. Either Austrailian or Russelheim.
They tried the hard sell with finance and the lot for some shitty piece of plastic crap, I sat in this car, plastic everywhere, too many pedals, they could tell I did not like it but kept on. Some sort of small people carrier, no idea what it was.
Carried on searching, Tried all the local dealers, crap cars everywhere, disinterested salesmen everywhere, ended up buying a Land Rover because it was the only car I could afford I found interesting.
I hate buying cars.
Rootes cars
Design work was usually very good, excellent engines, but rust, a welder is your friend.
Never had handling issues with the Avenger range, I used to own the hatch derivative and the handling of that was superb.
And I did a very nice wheel arch repair with seam welding
I have an off roader and it has a smaller foot print on the road than some Minis.
So I am supposed to get another car for the occasion I drive into the town centre? Whereas I commute into the country along roads liable to flooding if the rain is a bit heavy.
Rip tarmac to shreds, don't think my car has the power, but it does spread all the power to 4 wheels. UNLIKE a wrong wheel drive Mini. Less likely to rip roads apart.
I am also supporting British industry. OK mainly British.
I can get in them!
As to my car not being an off roader if it has them.
Got good stuff like high axle articulation.
Active anti roll bars which act as disconnected off road
4W traction control
centre diff lock
Off road height setting (on the back)
Correct badge on steering wheel
I have fitted extended breathers
Does green laning with no problems
So they want to run the same program on PCs Consoles Tablets and Phones?
Erm don't think so. Can't see how it would be possible for one program to work on multiple OSes.
PC Could be Windows, Linux, or Apple BSD
Phone, Google Linux, Apple BSD, what about Symbian?
Consoles, Lets look, ooh a mix of Orbis OS, CellOS, VitaOS, well they are all BSD forks.
Sorry not doable.
There are two PCs I use a lot, One XP, one 7.
From what I can see 7 is the last Windows OS written for the older experienced user, the person used to menus, to things being in a certain place. But it is still just a step too far (I had to upgrade Paint to a version with menus)
I will admit I detest ribbon menus, I detest icon only menus, What does the frying pan do? What does the combine harvester do?
My XP PC is almost like an old friend. I know where everything is, I can dive in deep and fix things, I can run any software I want. WIth the embedded registry fix it is supported as long as the 7 PC.
There is a 8.x PC at work, no one wants to use it, Nothing is where you expect. It just winds us up.
Anyway I built 2 x 7/Mint PCs last year, Linux was easier to get SSD ready, Mozilla software was easy to make dual usable, shared contents and settings. I learnt enough about Linux to not feel lost.
So I put a little 1/2 Terabyte drive in the XP PC and installed the latest version of Mint, that was pretty easy and it works well. On the Windows side the willitrun .exes from MS just sit there doing nothing.
Anyway XP is quad core, plenty of RAM, 2TB of HDD so I checked the specifications.
There is one thing missing from the CPU is NX support, and this is a recent one, released around the time of Vista.
So looks like that PC will have to stay XP or Linux. But is it right that I would be happy with a new version of Windows which worked like 2000 or XP?
What lost me totally was going to BBC News and seeing the results on the front page, before it had been broadcast.
Oh and the voice, what a pile of shit, we lost full live F1 from BBC to pay for this crap, BBC needs to sack Cohen.
Live F1 gone, no more Top Gear, the cancelling of SF and fantasy series when they get interesting. There is little to watch for ME now.
Radio well they got rid of Bruce Dickinson, which was the main reason for me to listen to Radio 6.
To be honest if Windows phone or RT cannot run WIN32 I cannot actually see the point in them.
The whole point of Windows WAS the ability to run large numbers of executables most notably in recent years WIN32, XP had the honour of being the last OS to happily run MSDOS and WIN16 as well.
So to me if something recent is called Windows and cannot run a Win32 exe it is NOT really Windows.
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