Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers (2002)

Re:Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video ... by digi_owl on Saturday August 13, 2016 @12:07AM (#12280225)

There are times i wonder if we crapified home computing by replacing pr program removable storage with a shared HDD.

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Re:Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video ... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Saturday August 13, 2016 @10:42AM (#12281681)

I remember those days and I don't miss them in the slightest.

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Re:Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video ... by msh on Saturday August 13, 2016 @03:27AM (#12280627)

but then we could not really have multi tasking.

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Re:Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video ... by Feneric on Saturday August 13, 2016 @10:04AM (#12281542)

There were systems that embraced both models. Remember the Amiga? When using it for work it'd run off of hard drive and would multitask between productivity apps. Some games though required the isolated boot model.

Personally I always found the isolated boot model to be kind of a pain (and even now I prefer VMs over native boots for running non-native software), but I can see why some like it.

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Re:Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video ... by digi_owl on Saturday August 13, 2016 @03:30AM (#12280638)

Thing is, i feel multitasking is what allows so much crap (botnets, ransomware, etc) to flourish.

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