| Subject: [lc] [acf] Bit by bit, | .......: the PC world is continuing to drop its legacy support. | Date...: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 13:26:57 +0100 | To.....: loose-connection <loose-connection@120pi.op4.eu> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | Subject...: Re: NVIDIA is gearing up to end 32-bit OS support | Date......: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 22:33:23 -0500 | From......: Flasherly <Flasherly@live.com> | Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 11:48:32 -0500, Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> | wrote: | | "... they reminisce about the Atari ST and the Amiga. What will | people think about when someone asks them about the 32-bit era? | Windows 95? Mac OS Classic? It's sort of sad to be honest." | | - Never mind. 50 years from now a history grad student will write a | PH.D. thesis that sorts it all out. Your post might even make the | bibliography (though it probably won't be called that any more.) | | - | Or past a antitrust and monopoly case, MSFT lost, perhaps during | Windows98, where direct manipulation on hardware distribution was | cited, manipulations on part of MSFT, estimated for having set the | "evolution of PCs" back by a decade or more. | | But what's actually so sad about greed, usury, ignorance and | subterfuges;...rather, think first to the cornerstones to a universal | square, a podium, as it were, whereupon to properly place History. | | Periodic episodes, if you prefer, more less or less for having fallen | short of golden ages;- ours irresponsibly would seem to have voted for | the simplified subscription Handroid, over your Dad's Computer, in | case you hadn't noticed. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% = https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/nvidia-to-cease-producing-new-drivers-for-32-bit-systems/
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