On deck for the next (and final) part of the series: what is permacomputing, and what does it have to do with a Chinese-made PC/XT clone in a netbook case? It’s certainlynotthe original version ofPC-DOSthat would have come on a PC/XT in 1983; that would have been DOS 2. Whe...
2005 wasn’t all that different from 2019. What had started asan exciting alliancebetween Apple, IBM, and Motorola to push back againstWintel’sdominance had broken down, with the PowerPC platform hitting a wall when it came to performance and energy consumption. The clearest example of the pr...