Posts by ijoyner

Quote: Originally Posted by CU10 Spoken like a true Burroughs salesman! Ha you are joking - Burroughs sales people couldn't sell anything - they were known as the Burroughs sales prevention force \ Mind you, they did have to...

Quote: Originally Posted by sidste Why multi-tasking: because I might want to. It is that simple. I could be working on a document and need to go to the web to look something up. Save the document, close it out, open safari, get my...

Quote: Originally Posted by b-a-r .. I'm sorry, but this thing just baffles me. I felt seriously sorry for Jobs, watching the keynote and seeing all those webpages load with the missing Flashplayer icon. I see he's totally into it, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by habesz85 Have you guys ever made a presentation or something like that? The ones telling, that multitasking is not needed at all, probably have no idea of productivity! You don't need *general*...

No it's named after the Burroughs A4 ;-) from its A Series, the later version of the original B5000. The link is very close - Robert (Bob) Barton designed the B5000 and later taught students such as Alan Kay at Uni of Utah. Kay of course...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM I don't see that at all. Forget what I said about bits and its storage, which is why I restated it, I didn't think you'd keep focus on that. Either you put a "document" into the...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Let me restate it then. It doesn't actually matter what the label is. If you drop a paper into a trash bin or a recycle bin, once the Janitor empties it, you're not getting the information on that...

Quote: Originally Posted by ijoyner No, you've still missed the point. The file as an abstraction is far removed from the bits it is stored on. It IS the FILE this operation applies to. The line of thinking is not rigid, just accurate....

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Your line of thinking seems too rigid, possibly blinded by your hatred. Sure, it's not really environmental, and it is on the politically correct side, but you are freeing up the storage for other...

Microsoft pundits would like to believe Apple's fortunes against MS were due to the ad campaign, thus living in the usual state of denial that Apple makes superior stuff. Secondly, the fact that internally MS people are putting...