Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

My Briefcase was like Dropbox for your 3.5" floppy disks. I think I upgraded to a Zip drive around that time. YIPPEE!

That's like describing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as a carpenter having problems with a few big nails! :-)

Some quibbles: IBM prevented 32-bit OS/2 for 80386 not from bad planning, but an internal struggle to keep 32-bit PCs from biting into the AS400 mini computer business, and there were internal wars for the board approvals.

This was the end of the line for Gates's frustration with IBM, as OS/2 took resources from projects he and Balmer were convinced would take off. Publicly claiming that upcoming Windows 3.0 would not be "Presentation Manager Lite", MS still death-marched developers to produce the release, while devs allotted to IBM sat on their hands or did code reviews for IBM managers. Win 3.0 Program Manager kicked ass on Presentation Manager, it was definitely not "lite" - and it ditched all the heavy-baggage of IBM SNA requirements.

"OS/2 NT" is a bit misleading. Late in the endgame of the IBM/MS relationship, Gates discovered that Dave Cutler was being cut away from DEC, with a recalibration of Prism and the future of Alpha. Cutler had begun a 64-bit microkernel evolution of his VMS system. OS/2 3.0 was on the boards, still dragging MS resources and tying up IP. Gates hired Cutler to build an alternative, skunk works kernel from his Prism design work, with the hope of porting the Windows System 32 layer with dependencies etc. When the last bitter contract work was delivered for IBM, Cutler and the Windows team ground out the hard work of delivering their kernel, TCP stack, and Windows 3.11 port —Windows NT.

Most of this stuff is well-covered in Carroll's "Big Blues" along with Zachary's "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT". I had a small part at the NT launch in Moscone Center, working for a ghost-writer on the Sybex NT book that launched at that event

I'm probably the lowest UID still occasionally active on Slashdot. It's a habit, that I'd be sorry to see go. This site is still my first pinned tab in Firefox.

Hell, I still even check things out on https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feverything.blockstacke..., even though they are throwing me an expired cert right now!

Remember Blockstackers?

Goodbye, Mockintosh. Has ANYBODY ever seen one of these creatures, outside a shop flogging them?

I agree. One out of three is a GOOD START! Don't stop now.

I used to like Mike and his website and purpose in life. Heck, I was even in the coffee club or water cooler club or whatever you call the small monthly donation club. But then he went full TDS and I gave up on him and his causes.

"It was a failure of technology" copout for incompetence and negligence. The Guardian is up for this ride and will pay for the gas.

Multiple people "detected the shooter" for nearly a half-hour, including the whole unit of police, operating out of the same building that shooter Crooks had taken position.

for all the teleprompters tonight.

This is why there have been attempts to package Rosetta2 to run on Asahi Linux. That has been kind of stale for a year. Apple did good work to make any Intel binary run in a M-series Linux ARM VM on their virtualization.

I have run a lot of Linux hardware since the 90's. With a couple of beta niggles, I've never had any workstation smoke like the M1 or M2. Kinda have high hopes for the new Snapdragon Surface.

The simple and not completely uncommon use case - running Intel Windows VST plugins with Wine and Box64 - is affected directly by the page size expected by the complied objects.

Far more common are users running games intended for various platforms, about which I regularly see questions and advice in a number of online forums.

...Is not thought.

Behaving consistently as if these are the same thing will lead to unanticipated and frequently unfavorable results.

It is now a reasonable wager to think that these technologies are hastening the untimely demise of this civilization. This is a period in which decision making is of possibly unprecedented urgency, while a plurality of resources are being directed to the simulation of decisions, based on predictive models from obsolete normals.