ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet Building the Anti-Microsoft Computer?.

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Dear Mike! I'm learning how to use and setup an anti-ms computer. As soon as I'm ready I'll help you. :~)

So what is it you are setting up Gloria? My solution has been linux since 1998

As for that bill-gates-as-nazi-brownshirt image- we as consumers have no one but ourselves to blame for the monopolisitc menace that microsoft is today. How many of you have ever read that EULA (rather than just mindlessly clicking "I Agree") to see what you are *actually* agreeing to when you install that software you just paid top dollar for? Add to that the fact that linux had been available since 1991, and useful since ~1996 and the regents of the unversity of california have had BSD available for free since 1993 and I can only conclude that MS is a menace we have made ourselves

Just to throw my two cents' worth in, I agree with the comments about Linux in that you do need to be somewhat more willing to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty when something doesn't work quite as expected. I also agree that it is WAY, WAY ahead of M$ in efficiency and stability. I have SUSE Linux 9.1 on my PC and absolutely love it! It is rock-stable. Sure, there's programs I can't run on it (so I then use WinXP instead), but 99.999% of my PC usage is surfing the Internet, word processing and spreadsheet work- such programs are available for 0$ to use with Linux.

In summary, I believe Linux has a considerable amount to recommend in its favor. But that's just my opinion.

Dear Trollog, I'm not content with the situation we're in, but it has logic in it in many ways.
Let's say we have international chat rooms built in to the application, without which I could never find your website ECN.
My idea although is to ask an IT expert when I want to use a computer for business purposes.
First I have to decide what I want the PC to help me in my job, then I can think of the costs I have for it.
Not like "buy the all in one PC with a fax-feeder-scanner-printer, and a broadband internet connection.
Then I sart to work and a cracker gets in and destroys all I did, whenever I didn't use the net at all (maybe only for surfing).

So my problem is, IT experts are well trained and self-updated people, and it is a pity they can't get more money than the average...

And also development stops if one mind thinks of the new ideas, instead of ten million.

Yes, when 8 bit chips like the 6502, Z80, and 6809 were king (which BTW, most of those 8 bits system uses BASIC, licensed from Microsoft).

Only when whitebox PC clones became popular in the home did the 8-bit systems (and thier short lived 16 bit successors) die off.

Indeed. By far the largest majority of home micros in the 1970s to early 1980s fell into one of those three camps: 8080/Z80, 6502, or 6800-series.

There were other CPUS around, but used much less commonly. I remember buying a book (must have been about 1979 or 1980) on the Texas Instruments 9900 (number?) CPU.

It was so different at the time to the other main chips in use. 16-bits for a start, and instead of dedicated accumulators, index registers and so on it just had a whole bunch of general-purpose registers which you could use for any purpose.

But those old 8-bit CPUs can still be very useful in controller applications. The Z80 survived for many more years as a dedicated controller for disk drivers, terminals, printers, etc. before the newer generation chips started to take over. My library still contains a whole range of books on machine-code programming for 6502/Z80/6800 chips.

err how about the mid-late 80's and early 90's?

I didn't have the 60's and 70's in mind with my post- that generation of computers was pretty obsolete by then. Anyone remember a company called SGI?