Recent content by cjs

If they were both sniping, what difference would that make?

Have you ever installed a server in a data centre? I have done many, and it's a vastly different thing from spinning up an AWS EC2 instance. On-prem (as, in your own facilities) and data-centre hosting are both very similar, the difference being that the data centre takes care of the...

As a network engineer and sysadmin who's built and maintained Internet-related systems for thirty years now, I can tell you that "Internet" and "cloud" are not at all the same thing. It probably requires some knowledge of network engineering and systems administration to understand why, though...

Processors with a 16-bit address space address 65,536 bytes (or words, really, but don't go there :-)), which actually is 66 kilobytes (kB) in metric units if you do your significant digits properly. Many people seem to look at just the first couple of digits and use that, truncating instead of...

I firmly disagree. If the previous messages in this thread came across to you as, "we all trust AI," I think they came across quite wrong. I doubt that anybody on this thread thinks that these LLMs are very trustworthy, but we're having a much more nuanced conversation about how bad (or...

I'll say. For those who haven't watched the video, it's worth checking out just to see the big book of hand-drawn schematics.

No, not at all. There was nothing like this in Applesoft, which is why they used a horrible, horrible hack, instead. On the Apple what you could do was replace the character input and output routines with different ones. (This is exactly what the IN# and PR# commands were designed for.) So when...

Actually, I'm thinking that the DDG AI summaries might not be so bad: it appears to work with the information from the top search results, rather than just whatever happens to be in its training. It did manage to get this question right. Then again, I just checked with GPT-4o mini and it got...

Isn't human breath rather loaded with moisture?

The 386/486 upgrades were great, though; with DESQview 386 it was like having a half dozen 8088 machines on your desk!

Is that any different from the results you see when you do a regular search and then select the "Web" tab at the top?

Well, yes, but no. "Yes" in that, whatever you' re thinking of by "tie" (and I'm not clear on that), it probably could be done. "No" in that European governments are unlikely to design software and systems to do that. (American corporations might, but we'll see how far they get in the face of...

TI can legally go after any product creator. There's no law against filing a lawsuit, no matter how absurd the lawsuit may seem to some people. At that point you're stuck defending yourself against someone who's got fairly deep pockets and a strong desire to hold on to a near-monopoly. And...

I am seeing equivalents for a lot cheaper than that. Here's a listing from a local shop for an HTC Korea part in DIP at ¥70 (about USD 0.50), and a Digikey listing for a TI part in SOIC at $0.69 (qty 1).

I'd expect that the largest part of the cost was actually the licensing fee paid to Microsoft for Level II BASIC. I wonder how much it was. IIRC, Commodore was the only company that ever managed to get a flat rate, rather than per-unit, license to MS-BASIC. Though the trs-80.org page does state...