Gary Kildall, the co-host with the beard, is the guy who famously
missed an appointment with IBM and missed the opportunity to
sell CPM/86 to them for the IBM PC.
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Nightfox to Moondog on Fri May 06 2022 02:41 pm
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
With the online and cloud apps being developed these days, I think it's a little weird that we've gone from using dumb terminals connected to mainframes years ago, to having our own powerful desktop computers, to no many people using simple devices using online software again.
i think it makes perfect sense.
you should only use what you need.
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Moondog to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 10 2022 03:22 pm
Yeah, there's always some misfit trying to use their system is a way that breaks things. At a previous site we had to lock down a user's profile s the y couldn't change things enoughto get in trouble. When they would complain
i someone is at a desk. you have to watch them.
there will be some funny business going on.
my friend is an it manager and they have this software that shows all the us
this dude got in trouble and they watched him delete his emails and try to c they track when they're idle, what programs are open, what emails they send
at my job as an electronics tech we had an engineer who would sit by himself he was stupid and didn't realize my desk was right behind his.
he was trying to break the computer by restarting it. either hardware, the O
he stopped doing it. later on i helpd out in another department and came ba ve had a camera on him all day.
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed May 11 2022 06:53 am
Gary Kildall, the co-host with the beard, is the guy who famously
missed an appointment with IBM and missed the opportunity to
sell CPM/86 to them for the IBM PC.
he didn't miss it. his wife was going to handle the meeting.
he was on company business at another location.
His wife didn't want to sign the standard NDA without her husband. she shou ibm would have just bought them out. i'm not sure if that's what they wante
His wife didn't want to sign the standard NDA without her husband.
she
shou ibm would have just bought them out. i'm not sure if that's what they wante
Correct. Folklore is he picked that day to go out flying his plane.
he had
flown to meet a customer earlier and met with IBM later. Part of the NDA back then included disavowment of any meetings or deals. Gates could move faster and sweetened the deal with undercutting DRI's pricing because he had previously worked on creating IBM's BIOS and overheard things involved in the next step of development.
When a pc was treated like an remote island, you need all the resources to be onhand. A terminals' apps and outside communications came in the form of a big box in the basement, and allowed others to leave internal mail or send ort broadcast messages to the all the users or just one user. Users were locked down from using external devices that could introduce a virus.
Chromebooks and Android desktops are great if you have the bandwidth. Again, apps are updated and managed from the source. Cloud storage allows for you to damage your device and not worry about lost data.
Aside from needing enough bandwidth, one thing with Chromebooks & similar th
Aside from needing enough bandwidth, one thing with Chromebooks &
similar th
I manage just shy of 1k Chromebooks at work. They will, indeed, function without a 'Net connection, although you do need to have cached your documents locally first. This is not the default behaviour, though.
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Moondog to MRO on Wed May 18 2022 09:38 pm
When a pc was treated like an remote island, you need all the resources be onhand. A terminals' apps and outside communications came in the for of a big box in the basement, and allowed others to leave internal mail send ort broadcast messages to the all the users or just one user. User were locked down from using external devices that could introduce a vir
Chromebooks and Android desktops are great if you have the bandwidth. Again, apps are updated and managed from the source. Cloud storage allo for you to damage your device and not worry about lost data.
Aside from needing enough bandwidth, one thing with Chromebooks & similar th y to do what I want to do.
Nightfox
I thought pretty much all the software they ran was web-based though. Even
Nightfox wrote to Moondog <=-
Aside from needing enough bandwidth, one thing with Chromebooks &
similar that totally rely on online apps is if the connection is lost, then you can't do any work.
That is why so much effort is put into hardening business networks. Several schools have moved to Chromebooks, and I know of one major appliance manufacturer that dumped MS Office in favor of Google apps. That was a bold move, mainly because of users being more familair with Office all these years rather than bandwidth.
Users being more familiar with Office than bandwidth? I'm not sure what you
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Moondog to Nightfox on Fri May 20 2022 02:02 am
That is why so much effort is put into hardening business networks. Several schools have moved to Chromebooks, and I know of one major appliance manufacturer that dumped MS Office in favor of Google apps. T was a bold move, mainly because of users being more familair with Offic all these years rather than bandwidth.
Users being more familiar with Office than bandwidth? I'm not sure what you
Nightfox
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Nightfox to Moondog on Sat May 21 2022 10:38 am
Users being more familiar with Office than bandwidth? I'm not sure what
I think Moondog was saying that the reason for it being a bold move was more do with user unfamiliarity, rather than the need for more bandwidth.
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I was wondering if "Mutiny" was indeed a BBS service. Now I
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Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Kaelon to All on Sun May 01 2022 14:54:45
Has anyone else here seen it? What do you think about the show?
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Has anyone else here seen it? What do you think about the show?
Absolutley loved it! Best TV Series I've seen in a very long time.
Bindge watched most of it.
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Has anyone else here seen it? What do you think about the show?
Absolutley loved it! Best TV Series I've seen in a very long time. Bindge watched most of it.
I just re-watched the tail end of season 4. Great show.
I want a present-day season 5.
... Abandon desire
i would prefer they stuck with the small jumps in time, and show the later half of the 90's after the dot com boom and when file sharing services were hot. Remember Pointcast? Companies hated it because it consumed so much bandwith. Distributed computing was also new, so there's lots to play with
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Moondog to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 05 2022 12:41 pm
i would prefer they stuck with the small jumps in time, and show the late half of the 90's after the dot com boom and when file sharing services w hot. Remember Pointcast? Companies hated it because it consumed so much bandwith. Distributed computing was also new, so there's lots to play wi
i dont know of any company that used pointcast. i looked it up and internet
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Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Moondog to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 05 2022 12:41 pm
hot. Remember Pointcast? Companies hated it because it consumed so much bandwith. Distributed computing was also new, so there's lots to play with
i dont know of any company that used pointcast. i looked it up and internet sez it's like a screensaver that showed real time info.
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