@hazardwarning I thought the ZX80 and Spectrum were the same thing. Was there much difference between them? What on Earth was Leather Goddesses of Phobos?
/@matigo
@matigo Nice story. I like the image of someone holed-up* in their bedroom cloning their own version of the OS of the day.
*Is holed-up the right word?
@matigo At https://admin.10centuries.org/files/ when you click on the blue eye icon, sometimes an image opens in the browser and sometimes it starts downloading (there's no 'open link in new tab' option in Safari's context menu here either), in which case I'm not able to get the URL so can't add _original to it.
Amazon Photos sounds interesting. From what people are saying, photos are stored in their original uncompressed state.
@matigo The Be founder Gassée said that he wanted the BeBoxes to be Amiga done right—low latency media workstation with specialised chips but with Mac-like usability. To be fair, even when it was just an OS on other company's hardware it was great at squeezing that maximum performance out of a machine. Shown a demo, Intel's boss said 'I didn’t know our chips could do that.'
/@streakmachine
@matigo Apple created the menus (or perhaps stole them from somewhere else), Microsoft copied the idea and made them long and nested some folders in. BeOS re-imagined it and made it really powerful. With BeOS/Haiku you can invoke the entire file system hierarchy from the desktop or any file or folder and copy/move/link anything entirely with the commands in the menu. When I first came across this it felt like having Ninja skills. But I suppose if you’re already a command line Ninja it’s not a big deal.
/@streakmachine