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Anyone doing out special for the birthday of the first computer, I was going to go and see it but I aint got time and I went and seen it a month ago, but if anyone wants to pay homage visit the Museum of Science and industry in manchester, they have rebuilt it to a working condition, don't think its Vista capable though :D

Check Here for more info....
 
60 years - sheesh.

Seems to me that the computer tech industry is on the slowing down side of a graphical curve. It doesn`t appear that year on year things get smaller and smaller to any great degree. Think the industry needs a kick up the backside myself.

Not enough competition, too much complaicancy, too much money.

Think the brakes went on about 20 years ago, as a gradual foot-down.
 
thats simply because IBM compatibles were only designed to have a lifetime of 5 years and weve stuck to that structure since 1983 whilst adopting the better features of other machines...for example the first computer to have a seperate graphics processor..the Amiga...I could go on but your dang right...something revolutionary needs to happen...maybe in the form of an all in one standardized solution...I think software is lagging and programmers really need a kick in the rear end...do you know what the first thing i was taught in UNI..."your not here to reinvent the wheel" what kind of crap is that for a software engineer to learn on his first day :D...
 
5 years will be with us until they make components differently. Electronic stuff has such a lifespan in the number of hours they`ll run b4 they crap out. Since the dimise of the computer manufacturers such as Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, Acorn and so on, there`s been no "soul" in computers. Your trained to do what the machine will allow u to do. Live with defined limitations that waiver every so many years, and frankly the typical modern programmer lacks imagination. It shows in games with no emergence of genres, they`re pretty much done.
 
yep...I feel that its the sloppy programming that makes us look at better hardware...and then that hardware is used to drag the software to a level that is useable...

I used to love the Amiga Coding scene, one demo called "Jesus on E's" (thats the name of the demo, I am not advocating anything) was a 45 minute cd quality rave track with real time visualizations....and the whole thing was on 2 x 880K Floppies...I went looking for this recently and found the MP3 track of the music...the size....30MB....now thats a testiment to how to optimize your software....if the same guys applied that programming skill set to today we'd be able to play crysis on single core cpu :D (maybe not, but you get the meaning)
 
On the Amiga we used to push the hardware in terms of what they said it could do, i.e. number of colors, and push it. The type of demo/intro writing I was into was just before the megademos flurished. I only made one of those, don`t even remember what it was called, but I should have it on floppy in the attic, if they`re still alive, with the source etc. Was only a handful of demos loading each other as the previous one finished. 68k assembly lol.

Likewize we would prove the 64 could do more than 16 colors and use bitplanes itself. And, really, had 96m u could program with. Sheesh that`s going back.
 
those were the days

***settles into his comfy chair with his pipes and slippers with a distant gaze as he remineces about the good ol days****
 
I remember when I bought my A1200, with 40MB HDD and 4MB FPU...I thought I was king...shame commodore went for a burton before anything that could utilise it came out...now heres a question...do you ever recall workbench crashing??
 
... erm.. without being my fault.. no :p Proper multitasking too. (all them decades ago)

Jee I got a 1200 with a ppc & bvision card in it - I got enough memory to max it too now. Too lazy and no room to set it up >.< Should die on me tbh with the age and use.

Stack of similar machines in the attic, the bbc borrowed some of them to do a retro show not so long ago - never saw it myself mind, might of been in Welsh lol.
 
My computer is named after Univac, the one before Eniac. My friends computers name is Eniac. My next build will have Univac in a special graphic on the side :D

Hmm since were talking about what they need to do to computers i have an idea. GET OUT OF 640K BASE!!! And get off the damn age old x86 386 archi.
 
LMFAO...we got this lad who works with us who didnt realise that the 640K base was actually the largest ammount of ram you can utilise before using extended memory architecture....and I know its all bypassed by the bios these days (jeez I remember having to load it seperately)...but it is still relevant having to explain that its the remaining artifact that is still inherent from utilizing age old architecture....my premise is that you wouldnt have rebuilt the twin towers on there existing foundations after the attack..no you'd drag it all up and start from scratch...5 year plan mate...was definitely not designed to last 30 years...there will come a point where it HAS to be redesigned from scratch...fingers crossed...hopefully we'll see companies like ASUS and Nvidia breaking the mold and actually starting to compete with the likes of Intel/AMD etc....
 
actually is 2 to the power of 127 minus one a prime number...and how long does it take a modern day machine to computate that...the baby did it in 25 minutes...they recon it would take a human 6 months...anyone got a scientific calculator handy ?? :D....

its on the video on the first post in the thread...I didnt watch the video first time round...love the bbc 1948 commentary :D
 
Amiga`s didn`t even use 8.3. U could add a .xxxx to a file, but the file id programs u`d use to launch something, actually identified the file for what it was.

So if u had "picture of plant" as a gif file, it`d recognize GIF0x (GIF089 I *think* it is) as the start of the file (as a simple example). U could call the file anything u want, it`d still be a picture.
 
jeez mate...I think ive slept since having to recall that info...its been along time since I even had my A500 on...the PSU has gone on it...and the only thing I ever used the Amiga Emulator for was Lyromat...I remember that the file header was always the precursor to the file type...but I cant remember the actual coding used to specify each type...I think we need to wire you straight to the internet www.wiki-rastalovich.com for all your Amiga Info...I remember some right useless crap from yesteryear....but that is some serious recollection :D.....kudos
 
Pretty much all the files the pc holds with a .xxx extensions, particularly media files, can be identified from their headers. There`s no ~real~ need for the extension in their case. Although they`d argue it makes for easier sorting, but I disagree.
 
LMFAO...we got this lad who works with us who didnt realise that the 640K base was actually the largest ammount of ram you can utilise before using extended memory architecture....and I know its all bypassed by the bios these days (jeez I remember having to load it seperately)...but it is still relevant having to explain that its the remaining artifact that is still inherent from utilizing age old architecture....my premise is that you wouldnt have rebuilt the twin towers on there existing foundations after the attack..no you'd drag it all up and start from scratch...5 year plan mate...was definitely not designed to last 30 years...there will come a point where it HAS to be redesigned from scratch...fingers crossed...hopefully we'll see companies like ASUS and Nvidia breaking the mold and actually starting to compete with the likes of Intel/AMD etc....
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Im glad there is somebody who agrees with me. I think PCs would be so much faster if we got off this age old tech. Its about like Nvidia and rehashing the damned G92 core.
 
name='Rastalovich' said:
Pretty much all the files the pc holds with a .xxx extensions, particularly media files, can be identified from their headers. There`s no ~real~ need for the extension in their case. Although they`d argue it makes for easier sorting, but I disagree.
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Yeah I agree, the only reason for the .xxx extension is so that we have a visual representation, it makes no difference if the PC is reading a 3 symbol ASCII charachter set or the first 16 bits of a file, in actual fact the first 16 bits would probably be quicker...compared to a hexadecimal ASCII character...although the ammount of file types maybe limited but even if you measured in a few bytes rather then bits it still would have benefits.
 
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