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Narishma

4,063karma·2,386submissions·April 7, 2013
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> Legend then goes that it's how Office application suit was born :) . Legend indeed. All the main Office applications either started on the Mac and/or were bought from third-party develo…
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Broadcom.
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That's irrelevant to the question.
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That might be ok on modern hardware, but if the reason you're using Windows 7 is that your hardware is too old for newer versions of Windows, I don't think Proton is a good option. For examp…
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Are those floating things airships? What were they used for?
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Visicalc doesn't run on recent versions of Windows without emulation.
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Having a modern SoC isn't a priority for Nintendo or the vast majority of their customers.
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Crazy in what way? I don't think there's much of a difference in terms of visuals between a PS5 and a PS5 Pro, especially at common TV viewing distances.
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PS5 Pro is a niche expensive system for enthusiasts. It won't be selling a ton.
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Why do they say it's running on a Z80 emulator? Doesn't the GBA have a Z80 CPU (or rather the SM83 variant) to run GB and GBC games?
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I had one such laptop. It was always a crapshoot whether Windows updates (the big ones where it rebooted one or more times) would succeed or not before the laptop overheated and shut down. The reason …
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The early Atoms too only supported up to SSSE3.
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Why do they use two bits for it? Do they plan to support other instruction lengths in the future?
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Qualcomm itself is one such company.
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Didn't the PDP-8 have 12-bit bytes?
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> Fast, performant and cheap. What's the difference between fast and performant?
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I think you got the size and position switched.
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They're talking here about Starship, not the booster.
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Don'y know about zig but LLVM is heavy and complex.
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My solution was to run Linux and a Windows 2000 VM for the old apps.
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I'm confused. What does space travel have to do with this?
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A person?
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What they said is true. There are some games with 120 FPS modes on PS5 and Series X, maybe even series S. That doesn't mean every game (or even most) are like that, just that the hardware support…
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What makes you think they're a team?
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Was VBScript that much worse than Javascript?
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You could run the original on an 86box period-accurate config.
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> Do we not count learning C++? No, because they presumably already know it. They wouldn't be using it otherwise.
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Did you mean COBOL?
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A more detailed article here: https://next-hack.com/index.php/2024/09/22/quake-port-to-spa... …
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