bobthedino
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Comment · 2 years ago
Other operating systems… including what was running on the Mac in 1984?
Comment · 4 years ago
In the UK, Mac keyboards generally seem to have "command" written on the key in addition to "⌘".
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, in fact Casio uses MIP displays in some of its recent watches, e.g. this Bluetooth connected watch has a 2 year battery life: https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/gshock/product.GBD-200-1/
Comment · 5 years ago
I also recently found this site, which for example can show you an API diff between Java 8 and 17: https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/17/apidiff/8/
Comment · 5 years ago
Well, to be fair none of the things mentioned are specific to operating systems programming. I think that not understanding the things mentioned is one of the reasons software runs so slowly these days even on computers than are orders of magnitude more powerful than just twenty years ago.
Comment · 5 years ago
SIMD support is also currently in development for Java: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338
Comment · 6 years ago
"My god, it's full of cars!"
Comment · 6 years ago
But on Unix and Linux pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal will send SIGINT (unless special measures are taken by your terminal emulator).
I think this another benefit of the Mac using Command-C for copy: when the UNIX-based Mac OS X was introduced you could copy from termainl windows without accidentally stopping the running program!
Comment · 6 years ago
Further to other comments, looking here it seems that C, X, V for Copy, Cut, Paste were first used by Apple in the Lisa in 1983 and then later adopted by Microsoft for Windows:
"The IBM Common User Access (CUA) standard also uses combinations of the Insert, Del, Shift and Control keys. Early versions of Windows used the IBM standard. Microsoft later also adopted the Apple key combinations with the introduction of Windows, using the control key as modifier key. For users migrating to Windows from MS-DOS this was a big change as MS-DOS users used the "copy" and "move" commands."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste#Populariz...
Comment · 6 years ago
Hard to see Apple changing this, since the Mac has been using the Command key for shortcuts since 1984. You could even argue that the "standard" you mention of using the Control key actually came along after the Mac!
Comment · 6 years ago
I also have floaters, which are visible against a white background regardless of screen brightness, and so I also prefer dark modes for that reason.
Comment · 7 years ago
A step in the right direction: Apple recently announced that next year security researchers will have access to special iPhones: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20756629/apple-iphone-secu...
Comment · 7 years ago
Am not sure that doing too much of either of those two things is possible...!