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OpenCOBOL is now GNUCOBOL. https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/

Try running it in a virtual machine.

I used SunOS and Solaris in 1995-1996 as a federal contractor for the US Military. It seemed to work well for a Unix OS. We used many different types of Unix. GNU/Linux, BSD Unix, and MacOSX slow…

Microsoft was sued by Sun for J++ J# using the Java API, Microsoft then made C# to replace it. Dotnet is Microsoft's version of Java that they wrote to eventually cross platform like Java in Dotn…

NeXTSTEP basically became MacOSX when Apple merged MacOS with it. AROS is the next best OS to use as it has a low memory footprint and can run on X86 systems: http://aros.sourceforge.net&#x…

Not a way to run a business, upset the customers by taking a crap on employees/mods who can help customers.

They took his words out of context: https://medium.com/@richardsmith_76348/richard-stallman-was-... https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of…

I can't wait until ReactOS is out of beta: https://reactos.org/ There needs to be an alternative to Windows out there that actually uses Windows apps and drivers. WINE in Linux i…

So Objective C became the Visual BASIC and Swift became the .Net Framework for Apple?

They accidentally revealed it without first doing peer reviews on it. Quantum computers are going to be expensive and faster than Bitwize computers.

Before Civilization by Sid Meier as well.

Even with corporate training the users I worked with couldn't find out how to do things even with a FAQ, HOWTO, F1 Help, and Help Desk helping them out. Web and Desktop apps. Plus they requested …

Ninja robots now?

Are you sure that Frozen Earth is not Hoth? :)

A Tom Sawyer business plan where the users do all the work and pay for the privilege by having their data sold to the highest bidder. Free as in money does not mean the same as free as in speech.

I thought it was satire.

This brings back memories. The Commodore 65 was a prototype of a faster C64 with Amiga like graphics and sound. http://mega65.org/ The Mega65 is a clone of the C65 with a 50mhz 4510 C…

Wormholes have radiation fields in them so even if they did work you'd get radiation poisoning at least when you get to your destination and might need medical help.

I worked in a PC shop in 1990 and we got RAM chips in bulk and in plastic tubes. The dealers would put in counterfet chips that would not work because of shortages. Then issue a refund later on. Some …

I heard the USA has the English of Shakespeare age. That England changed the spelling of some words as well as how they pronounced them. The Queen's English vs Traditional English. Is that correc…

You have to teach the kids in school critical thinking instead of teaching them to think with their feelings. Then they learn to eliminate bias in their thinking so they don't become racists, big…

It sounds like it could be a future story for Silicon Valley on HBO. I'm sure this sort of thing happened before, both spouses contribute to the startup and then they divorce and fight over owner…

After Jobs was fired or quit Apple in 1985 because the Mac was a flop and the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST came out for a lower price with color. Apple had to redesign the Mac and came up with Nubus s…

I heard there was some lawsuit between companies over AmigaOS. The AROS is based on AmigaOS 3.1 API calls and some version of AmigaOS 3.x or 4.x used source code from AROS etc. I am not 100% certain o…

One step closer to the Wonkavader. Which always freaked me out that it could move anywhere and even fly.

I used Turbo Assembler in college. Not the Borland version a different one sued by Borland over the name. My professor joked that ASM operates by voodoo that is really hard to learn and master. I have…

I remember doing it with DOS and ansi.sys and then enter escape codes with prompt etc.

I have an AT&T smart phone and they are offering HBO to Go to us. I didn't sign up yet, but looks like if I did my password etc would be stolen. Was this an exploit or just someone with admin…