I'm still constantly baffled by just how absolutely beyond shit modern computers are
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@OpenComputeDesign x86 was a mistake? :)
@OpenComputeDesign
16 bit was a mistake?
transistors were a mistake?
how modern are we talking? :)
16-bit/early-32-bit was my favorite era. (Basically, the #68k era ;)
Computers were just becoming capable, but not too big for their britches.
@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane I had a good time with my first amd athlon 64 but sure, simpler times :)
I think computers were honestly better when they were limited to absolutely no more than 1GB RAM, no more than 256 colors, and no more than 1024x768 screen resolution.
1GB RAM: no LLMs
256 colors: no horrid low-contrast soupy interfaces
XGA Resolution: no horrid empty spaces and bloated interfaces
I keep wanting to make that as an OS 😄
(If only I had the skillz)
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Yeah, and the pushback I get from statements like that is insane to me.
"But we don't want to go back to Windows 95."
I don't either, it was a crap OS, but the interface was better than the crap interfaces they're shipping today, so ?!?!????!?
I'd rather w95 with its software suite and interface than w11 with its.
W11 is a worse OS than w95 was.
@pixx @OpenComputeDesign @kabel42
It does have memory protection, though. That was Windows 95's most glaring weakness.
Edit: I meant to say that it doesn't. derp.
Edit2: No, I was saying that W11 has memory protection. lol
@rl_dane
Meh. Memory protection means i need preemptive scheduling instead of cooperative.
I'd rather a cohesive system with cooperative scheduling (with maaaaybe overrides for audio but, really, I'd rather require a 2 core minimum and use one as a hard real time processor)
@pixx @OpenComputeDesign @kabel42
Whaaaat, why would you want cooperative scheduling? That means one application crash takes down the whole OS, because it never returns control.
@rl_dane
Because i want applications that don't SUCK
And i want a design that requires competency.
@pixx @OpenComputeDesign @kabel42
Brofam, I lived through the cooperative years.
Wild horses couldn't drag me back there.
Having your entire OS go belly-up because StuffIt Expander stuffed itself was not fun, and stuff like that happened a lot.
Just imagine what a modern web browser could do to a cooperatively-multitasked OS, YE FLIPPING GODS!
#FreeBSD can barely handle heavy sites on Firefox without hiccups as it is!
Computers should have been magically capped at 1GB RAM.
That would've been utopian.
(What do you mean, "'utopic' isn't a word?!?" It should absolutely be a word!)