Posts by davidp231

Re: Good

And the machine MacPaint (and MacWrite) were originally written for only had 128K of memory. Later versions of MacPaint run fine under 7-9 (runs quite happily on my Beige G3).

Re: Windows 3.11

Yeah, beacuse they stripped the pbrush.exe executable and turned it into a loader for Paint after they got rid of Paintbrush. Still doesn't make them the same thing - and neither does using an alias link.

Only difference is Paintbrush was allowed to retire without being afflicted with a ribbon.

Re: Windows 3.11

That's Paintbrush.. NOT Paint. If you really want Paint, go dig out a Win95 install.

Re: Sun Probe

And then get TB2 to rescue TB3 because they (and TinTin) passed out from the heat before turning off said beam.

Re: To quote a popular song ... 'Let it go !!!'

OS/2 was designed to run perfectly on IBM machines (esp. the PS/2 ones) - running it on anything else was pretty much Russian Roulette because it looked up specific things only found in IBM BIOSs so was 80% reliable at best on non-IBM kit... if it ever installed (it doesn't like Toshiba laptops that much).

Re: Nice for abandonware

NT statrted at 3.1 as it was contemporary to Win3.1 at the time. Effectively the business version of it, much like 95/98 had NT4, and Me had Win2K.

OS/2 came about because the original was an improvement over the original DOS (and initially could only run text based applications, albeit in 32bit) and they touted it as the new DOS (hence OS/2). That and the IBM PS/2 line.

Re: Lawyers

"Heck, Google have announced that they will stop issuing updates to their own Android devices after 18 months and security patches after 2-3 years."

And most OEM vendors don't even see said updates.

Re: Lawyers

Or... the XP patch was sent out to those who are still paying for support (of which, the NHS isn't) and they just flipped the switch that lets everyone else have it.

Re: Who's to blame?

The (C)Hunt that decided not to renew the paid support agreement for WinXP machines, and then go into hiding when the excrement merged with the cooling system?

Partially because Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 are two separate entities.

Re: Just fix it.

Probably due to the fact a rather large mass of the source code in XP is still active in future versions - and by extension some of said code is just as it was back in NT 3.1, where it originated.

Basically a downloadable package, either installed via dpkg -i <package name> or can be double clicked. Or via apt-get if the repository is known to the system.

Akin to Redhat's .rpm - or a Windows .msi

Re: Blimey, am I really THAT OLD?

Well the expansion slot in said SE did let you drop in appropriately designed graphics cards to add another monitor - and System 7 would happily let you extend across... many moons before Windows could.

Re: Vague Memories

And System 6 did support colour if your Mac could run it still. I think the LC II was the most recent colour model that could, with the earliest being the Mac II.

Re: Improvements?

8 requires an '040 processor, but can be fiddled with to run on an '030. Also,the SE does have an expansion slot, and you could upgrade the floppy drive (an upgrade which later became standard, on the form of the SE FDHD, which is what mine is. The best upgrade for it though, is the mobo from an SE/30, along with the ROM from a Mac IIx/IIci so 32bit software behaves properly. Which would in turn let you put 8 on it for giggles. You also get to play with much more memory, if you can find sufficient 30pin SIMMs - SE capped out at 4MB, and the SE/30 at 128MB.

Re: Question

You get the same crap on Enterprise too.

Re: And yet another MS stuff up

The stuff on mobo driver discs is usually years out of date anyway, so that's no surprise. One would at least think that newer iterations of the same board would have more recent drivers dumped on the disc.

Then again, there isn't that much point to them anymore I feel - networking generally works straight out of the box these days so there's nothing really stopping one from just downloading the current drivers for everything anyway. Or even doing it before swapping in the new mobo if possible.

Re: Optional

And depending on how far you get... Win7 refuses to boot at all if secure boot is on.

Or those that think farcebook is the Internet, and don't even know what an email address is.