Apple didn't have their own IDE. They had a bunch of tools and you would launch what you needed, and quit them to save active memory. It was a cooperative multitasking environment, so you had to be careful. My first Mac had soldered 4 MB of RAM and a slot and I paid over US$1000 for 32 MB.
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Week off work this week and already bored blue. Not good at being off. No idea what to do, especially as I'm now single and especially in a cold and damp February. Get up, go for a walk, go for coffee, read book, listen to some music, watch TV, drink (too much) wine, bed, repeat. Can't wait to get back to work. God help me when I have 2 weeks off in April!
Wondering if serious news will be able to survive this era...
Just canceled my long-term subscription to The Washington Post after Bezo's announcement today. Sad.
Just canceled my long-term subscription to The Washington Post after Bezo's announcement today. Sad.
A worry shared across the pond. The break neck speed at which events unfold is quite honeslty dizzying, having to contend with an unreliable press makes the prospect of processing and adapting daunting.
Might I suggest you divert the funds towards The Atlantic, it is part of my "society" reading of the american cultural sphere and did not until now disappoint.
So my Dad was telling me a story (UK based) about some piece of news. It literally was not true, completely made up. I had to explain to him that this was fake news (especially from a garbage website he reads). But he fell for it hook line and sinker. I won't go into details as its a UK politics issue, but it is sad that when you right something it gets reported as fact with no need to sense check it.
In other news
New iPhone to come equipped with teleportation device. Samsung will release theirs the following week and tell people it was their idea and spend the next decade suing each other!
Thank you, great suggestion... and already a subscriber! I have to say they seem to have only gotten better the last few years too. Nice to know Apple money helps it keep going.
I'm actually thinking of switching funds to The Economist. They seem very level-headed still.
Had to get rid of some leave by the end of this month or lose it....
Delighted to hear that ! I sadly don't read the Economist as often as I use to. The dashboards covering the presidency are interesting but the Financial Times cuts into the allocated "economics" reading.
Do you follow any of the chinese presses ?
I don't need the iPhone to be a teleporter. I already have a ChromeBook for that.In other news
New iPhone to come equipped with teleportation device. Samsung will release theirs the following week and tell people it was their idea and spend the next decade suing each other!
What I need from the iPhone is toasting. It should toast bread and bagels, and make garlic toast on demand.
Personally, I regard The Economist as tilting conservative while usually doing a good job of avoiding outright partisanship and blatant propaganda.
If you're interested, assuming you are in North America, I find four international broadcasters and two news publishers to be a good antidote to the current style and focus of US news outlets:
(yes, these websites and live streams are in English)
News and current affairs from Germany and around the world – DW
News, off-beat stories and analysis of German and international affairs. Dive deeper with our features from Europe and beyond. Watch our 24/7 TV stream.
www.dw.com
CBC News - Latest Canada, World, Entertainment and Business News
The latest news from across Canada and around the world.
France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines
Breaking news and world news from France 24 on Business, Sports, Culture. Video news. News from the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East, America
www.france24.com
(subscribing to Bloomberg can be expensive)
Bloomberg - Business News, Stock Markets, Finance, Breaking & World News
Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News
www.bloomberg.com
Plus a tip: many local library systems offer free access to multiple news sources and databases, even on your own devices.
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I thought a Chromebook was for Spider Solitaire?
Now I’m thinking about toast. I have two pieces of bread a week. Mrs AFB doesn’t eat any. Yet we have a dedicated toaster. Weird.
At work our toaster had a Y2K compliant sticker on it for years. Someone in IT thought it was funny.
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They did, actually. I remember doing a short course in it some 30+ years ago. It was a bit like a Unix environment, with compilers, editor, make tools and the like. I can't remember for the life of me what it was called, though.
Ah, Google Is Your Friend...
It was called MPW, Macintosh Programmer's Workbench (scroll down to IDEs).
I still consider MPW more of a menu than an integrated environment. It was looser than the IDEs that followed.
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I used Toast at a tech store in Japan to put photos on a CD. The interface was in Japanese, but I had used Toast enough times that I knew which menu choice to pick by position, even though I couldn't read the words.
I used Toast at a tech store in Japan to put photos on a CD. The interface was in Japanese, but I had used Toast enough times that I knew which menu choice to pick by position, even though I couldn't read the words.
It was an interesting app.....but it was something produced by computer guys for other computer guys and not something the general public was prepared to use.....and so it disappeared
Listen to music for 8-12 hours a day, that's what I do on days off. I'm serious.
Naw, only a fool would try such a thing.
Now when I talk about CDs, it's about bank investments!
You are probably right. Having done the short course, I used it once to do "Hello World" and went off to do more practical stuff for me, like learning LaTeX...
Which Mac was it? Of course adding extra memory cards even to the soldered in ones is hard.
Lots of things earlier but now with modern IDEs we get code completion, AI pair programming, and even other things to automate writing tedious things versus reading Stack Overflow threads and scrolling for answers...
I could look it up, but I’m lazy. When was Safari introduced? I just don’t remember using Microsoft Explorer, but the name is actually familiar to me from those early days. My Apple IIe, no Internet. My first Mac was a Performa something or other (630?, 1992) that I bought at Sears of all places. Back then, I was on dial up, charged by the minute by Compuserve. I did very little online, other than logging into Compuserve, posting on their forums and logging into the Union’s web site (that I was a member of). It was very primitive online, as compared to the Mac’s GUI interface. Compuserve was where I was actually awarded the name.”Huntn” and have used it ever since. It was much more intimate feeling than online is today. The first Windows box I saw, didn’t even have a GUI interface, that’s why I went with the Mac, there was no comparing the two.
Actually I realised when I looked up macOS versions OS X Panther started getting Safari. So it was already implemented shortly after OS X debuted, but Panther remained a pivotal version of macOS released in the early years. Has anyone went to the OS X Night of the Panther events at Apple Stores? A very, very long time ago, but I would love to hear your perspectives.
Remember that Safari was an offshoot of the KHTML browser. Apple found so many problems and they kept sending updates to the KDE people and the developers were overwhelmed.
I still remember logging into CompuServe with 72677,3650 and some password. Eventually, they turned that into an e-mail address for the outside world: 72677.3650@cis.com or some such.