30MB was a lot. I think XT I used as my first PC had 20MB and you could fit _everything_ on it
My first HDD was a 32MB WD. 32!!! MB. Friends and family thought I was crazy. Why so big! Most did without a HDD or had a 10MB one at most.
I had to low-level-format the beast myself, marking bad clusters etc. Och, those happy days.
A friend of mine had WIndows 2.0 but I used the suite that came with my Philips PC. Not bad at the time. It had a nice interface, wysiwig! and mouse control. No need for Windows. Och, those happy days.
Well I still hate Windows Vista (who doesn't?) and I think Windows 8 is a steaming pile of dung, but Windows 7 is strangely usable sometimes. It's the best OS for gaming still As for the hardware, there's no denying that Apple hardware isn't quality. It's certainly better than some pile of dung from PC World. The more expensive Windows laptops are probably of similar quality to a Mac but if you pay nearly £1000 for a Windows laptop you're better off getting a Mac and dual booting it. It works out cheaper and you can use OSX as well.
Great minds think alike I suppose as you have exactly the same opinions about Windows Vista and Windows 8 as I have! :cool:
If DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) hadn't made a huge error of judgement in the 80's, there would have been no IBM PC (or Microsoft, which came into being on the back of it), because we would have been using the DEC Professional, based on the PDP11 architecture, and its successors. It was far superior architecturally to the IBM PC.
The error that Ken Olsen made was to assume that nobody would want to develop their own software, but instead buy ready made applications. For that reason, the assembler and compilers were not made publicly available.
A great opportunity lost that would have changed the face of personal computing today in my opinion.
If DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) hadn't made a huge error of judgement in the 80's, there would have been no IBM PC (or Microsoft, which came into being on the back of it), because we would have been using the DEC Professional, based on the PDP11 architecture, and its successors. It was far superior architecturally to the IBM PC.
The error that Ken Olsen made was to assume that nobody would want to develop their own software, but instead buy ready made applications. For that reason, the assembler and compilers were not made publicly available.
A great opportunity lost that would have changed the face of personal computing today in my opinion.
Nice seeing that classic Mac System Software pic too. I used to love the way it would quack at you when you made a mistake
Or give you the notorious bomb message and force you to reboot
Maybe it was the hardware I was using at the time but I recall OS 7 and 8 used to constantly complain about virtual memory ... either it needed to be off, or on, or you hadn't allocated enough..or too much etc.
Maybe it was the hardware I was using at the time but I recall OS 7 and 8 used to constantly complain about virtual memory ... either it needed to be off, or on, or you hadn't allocated enough..or too much etc.
I don't remember having that problem with my old Performa 630. Mind you, I did have an absolutely WHOPPING 36MB RAM in it, which for 1994 or thereabouts was huge.
It was certainly way ahead of its time. I reckon if Commodore were still about today things would look very different in the IT world.
Commodore were a completely useless company with a good product. It was a house of cards that got lucky by buying in the Amiga, nothing more.
Or give you the notorious bomb message and force you to reboot
Maybe it was the hardware I was using at the time but I recall OS 7 and 8 used to constantly complain about virtual memory ... either it needed to be off, or on, or you hadn't allocated enough..or too much etc.
It was certainly way ahead of its time. I reckon if Commodore were still about today things would look very different in the IT world.
To be honest, I would much prefer the "notorious bomb message" instead of a BSOD!
I remember getting my hands on one of these in 1985/86, this was the leading edge back then. People were pretty gobsmacked when they first saw a working graphical mouse/keyboard os
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From what I've seen, Apple seem to sue companies willy nilly.
My first HDD was a 32MB WD. 32!!! MB. Friends and family thought I was crazy. Why so big! Most did without a HDD or had a 10MB one at most.
I had to low-level-format the beast myself, marking bad clusters etc. Och, those happy days.
A friend of mine had WIndows 2.0 but I used the suite that came with my Philips PC. Not bad at the time. It had a nice interface, wysiwig! and mouse control. No need for Windows. Och, those happy days.
Yeah look at all the Apple v Samsung cases in recent times.
Where did I mention the names of the companies that Apple have sued?
The error that Ken Olsen made was to assume that nobody would want to develop their own software, but instead buy ready made applications. For that reason, the assembler and compilers were not made publicly available.
A great opportunity lost that would have changed the face of personal computing today in my opinion.
You didn't - you mentioned that they did sue them and then cnbcwatcher gave an example of a company they sued.
But what parts do Apple actually make? The important bits like processor, memory, hard drive and memory aren't
Exactly. That is all.
You do realise this is a discussion forum and cnbcwatcher was just having a discussion?
Nowhere, but I was just giving examples and that was the first one I could think of.
I'm glad someone agrees with me!
Okay. Fair enough.
Nice seeing that classic Mac System Software pic too. I used to love the way it would quack at you when you made a mistake
Maybe it was the hardware I was using at the time but I recall OS 7 and 8 used to constantly complain about virtual memory ... either it needed to be off, or on, or you hadn't allocated enough..or too much etc.
It was certainly way ahead of its time. I reckon if Commodore were still about today things would look very different in the IT world.
Commodore were a completely useless company with a good product. It was a house of cards that got lucky by buying in the Amiga, nothing more.
Did it really do that?
I remember getting my hands on one of these in 1985/86, this was the leading edge back then. People were pretty gobsmacked when they first saw a working graphical mouse/keyboard os
The quack is hilarious