"Il y a peu de choses qui me soient impossibles..."
"Il y a peu de choses qui me soient impossibles..."
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Tim Holloway wrote:I'd have to say the Amiga series. The CPU was the Motorola MC68000, which had straightforward byte ordering and a regular instruction set, unlike the hopscotch Intel stuff. The core OS was an object-oriented microkernel.
Jesper de Jong wrote:
Tim Holloway wrote:I'd have to say the Amiga series. The CPU was the Motorola MC68000, which had straightforward byte ordering and a regular instruction set, unlike the hopscotch Intel stuff. The core OS was an object-oriented microkernel.
Agree. The OS also had preemtive multitasking, which was more advanced than even Microsoft Windows 3.1 (which had cooperative multitasking).
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Tim Holloway wrote:
I was sad to see the line die. Unfortunately, they demonstrated in a way that should be recorded in textbooks that a bad management can ruin even the best of products.
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students - Robin Williams. tiny ad:
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