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  • xc8 9 days ago | parent | on: Commodore trademark bought by youtuber
    C64 FPGA.. anyone remembers c-one ? BTW on board of this company is Jeri Ellsworth >> http://c64upgra.de/c-one/s_specs.htm

    NO thanks from me, more or less I smell something like Compaq >> https://www.compaq.com/#our_products_title

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  • xc8 9 days ago | parent | on: After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic stand...
    yes FFS @OP
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    • jgrahamc 9 days ago
      I have changed this to 2024 but please don't say things like FFS here. The OP made a small error that was easily corrected. No need for profanity.
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  • xc8 160 days ago | parent | on: I fixed a beat-up Atari 2600 "Jr" with glue, a sin...
    > original protective film is still stuck to it

    This is true on most retro systems, check the (metal) labels eg on C64/C128 even Amiga, previous owners did not realize there was a protective film over them

    • barbeque 160 days ago
      I had some stuck on a Famicom and it just crumbled. I'm impressed the Atari one came off cleanly.
  • xc8 191 days ago | parent | on: Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems
    I would not classify win2 as OS, still relied on MSDOS.
    • BirAdam 191 days ago
      Many people feel that way, but it had multitasking, its own APIs, its own memory management, and so on. Disk access was still handled by MS-DOS, but that was it. I’d say that it’s an OS as it is far more than a shell, but we can also use Microsoft’s terminology from the time, “operating environment.”
      • qingcharles 185 days ago
        I agree. As soon as you booted Windows it almost entirely sidelined DOS. DOS was more of a bootloader for Windows OS.
    • bmonkey325 191 days ago
      Respectfully, Is the distinction important?

      macOS and Next Step rely on BSD and the Mach kernel. Android relies on Linux and the dalvik jvm.

      • KODust 191 days ago
        Not sure if it's important, but Windows 2 is still fundamentally a graphical shell on top of DOS. I think the Unix parallel would be: is the X Window System an OS?
        • bmonkey325 191 days ago
          Ok. I will play. Is it because you invoke the shell vs having the shell started automatically. Leading to this query:

          Is Windows 95 an operating system ? If not why not. After all it relied on MS-DOS also.

  • xc8 207 days ago | parent | on: Debug: G=C800:5
    ok lol I once screwed a HDD because I mistyped some numbers at debug for lowlevel format :)
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