...

PeaceTed

170

Karma

2025-10-29

Created

Recent Activity

  • I mean DOS is essentially just the frame work between the software and the BIOS/hardware. Once code is running the OS isn't doing too much.

    In that sense DOS programs run without any guard rails. Video memory is just a memory address where you can throw data in and it shows up on screen, but it also means that any kind of memory pointer issue can write over almost anything in RAM. It was trial and error to ensure everything worked and seeing as machines were not always online, there was a much smaller risk of security issues being leveraged.

  • Oh dear here comes lazy barnacle man Grandpa Joe. Watch them ignore rules of the EULA agreement and they are sucked into the factory ventilation shaft holding the new iPhone Lighter-than-Air.

  • Yep, if letting the stock market determine how the business is run, eventually it will be run in a way that will blow out the bottom of the bucket.

    There is a fine line that needs to be walked between innovation and appeasing share holders. Cook is mostly just doing the latter.

  • It just feels like all of them are over valued but then we are in a TINA market nowadays. Where else is the money going to go?

HackerNews