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Planet X is supposed to be Neptune sized. This thing is less than 1000 miles across. 'Giant' for a Kupier belt object; not so much for planets.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be a popular ethic, particularly around here. These are the disciples of MVP and 'move fast, break things' and all the rest.

I remember NeWS being significantly slower than NeXTStep (and on a faster processor). X11 could be slow, too (VAXStation QVSS, anyone?), but flew on decent hardware. The tragedy is that with 5+ orders of magnitude more processor, 3+ orders of magnitude more memory and a GPU, I still think "crap this is laggy".

This might surprise some people, but there are pretty cool tech companies that aren't in the Bay Area.

I think the same thing, then I price a Power 11 (or Power 10) machine. Ouch. I even kinda liked AIX, even though it is definitely it's own thing. We had such hope for OpenPower but it never came to anything.

I've certainly had such nudge-nudge, wink-wink interactions around reatil system stupidity, but this isn't a general solution and not every person/demographic would have such a happy ending. Indeed, you're lucky a separate anti-shoplifting system didn't flag you for 'enhanced screening' or some such taking the friendly clerk out of the equation and handing you off to the rental security drones. Then you'll just be the guy on the surveillance camera taking a part of the shelf and walking out with it (and no they probably won't care you put a part back). The more automation, the less 'human in the loop', the less opportunity for common sense to inject itself into the scenario.

That's true, but it falls under the thing I keep saying: people saying "the AI said so" with no thought or checks as an excuse for pretty much anything. And AI provided probable cause is terrifying. Minority Report was not aspirational.

Wouldn't be the first once hot memory tech that ended up in the scrapheap. See: RDRAM.

Well, yes, but wouldn't this fall under Regulation S-K, Item 303? They don't have to provide forward revenue guidance, but if they're exiting a line of business don't they have to disclose future trends and risks leading to that decision in their 10Q/10K?

You'd be surprised how many working VAXen are out there. The later desktops (the 3100s and 4000s) are pretty reliable, and you can put enough memory in them they don't (always) swap to death.

Cfront seems so quaint in retrospect.

PATA & SATA drives don't have low level format, but SCSI did long after 1992.