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by q-big
1305 days ago
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You're kidding right? Having a desktop PC in the pre-internet days was a scary experience. My smartphone and iPad are both cute and work unblinkingly every time all the time. I beg to differ: - no scary golden cage - no fear of being surveilled - it was possible (DOS) if you were seriously to understand at least huge parts of the whole OS that ran on your PC - it was possible to understand the bare-metal software interface to the hardware; you had to, because if you were writing, say, games for DOS, you typically accessed the hardware (e.g. your sound card) directly. |
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