Haha, there’s still things embedded deep in code and in CPUs that go way back to the 80s. If only y’all knew. It’s all shit built on top of older shit, built on top of even older shit with kludges and hacks to glue it all together. Know why Windows has five different ways to access the same setting? Because if they get rid of the older methods, they break a ton of other shit that depends on it too. A house of cards or a Jenga tower.
A modern PC can STILL natively boot a DOS floppy from 1986 in legacy BIOS mode because of this.
Theres also examples in the corporate world where some companies are STILL running 70s mainframes, and use shiny new PCs as front end terminals that just connect to the same old backend.
ISA still exists on new, modern hardware.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/isa-slot-tpm-soundblaster-header-pc
The control panel peaked at windows 7 though
Seriously, each new windows update just adds a fresh new coat of paint on top, as if to make finding the actually useful win 7 and xp menus, that are still there, harder.
Linux Mint feels to me like what windows 10/11 should’ve been
everything Windows peaked with Windows 7.
Imma gonna stop you there and say the peak was Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 was definitely peak, for its time.
but Windows 7 eclipsed it, and remains the best microsoft OS… I will fight and die on this hill <3
If we ignore the spontaneous BSOD, Windows 98 had the best performance among all systems lol
This is super interesting and I had NO IDEA! Makes me very curious how much more efficient an entire fresh start might be with new tech.
CPU architecture wise, you can see the difference between cluttered, old x86 and ARM or even RISC-V chips. They just run so much more efficient, as you can tell with your phone lasting a day or two, or apple silicon consuming a fraction for the same performance.
An example for the ancient backend would be the flight pathing system DAL. (Wendover video)
Yeah I can’t even think of any recent CPUs that aren’t based on previous designs. Even Apple’s new M1 is an ARM derivative, which itself is based on an ancient computer from the 80s known as the “Acorn”.
It’s a bit poetic. They were directly competing with Apple at the time, and Acorn named themselves such so that they would appear in front of Apple in the phone book. Of course, they haven’t existed in a long time, but 35-40 years later, Apple decides to use the great-grandson of Acorn’s CPU in their new products.
Never name anything with “New” in the name, it will look silly after a few years.
Yeah, new technology because it was the file system for Windows NT, which originally stood for… Windows New Technology.
Later Microsoft decided to just use NT as a moniker without any indication of it’s origins.
Me and my mates used to say it was short for “Not Tested”. Oh, how we laughed
I mean, it’s still way better than Fat, but incredibly incompatible with a lot of things still and new usb drives are always FAT. Shame ntfs didn’t catch on more.
External storage is always FAT, because everything can read FAT, so it just makes life easier for file transfers.
Not because NTFS/ext4/etc doesnt work on usb sticks.
Yeah, but that’s the shame. Ntfs been around for decades, would be great for usb as it allows faster transfer speeds and more secure. Would have been nice if more devices included it so it wasn’t such a compatibility barrier.
I’d rather have universal compatibility myself.
besides, its not like you cant reformat it to NTFS. They just come stock as fat so you can access them on any device.
New York be like:
Join Ext4!
Or APFS
It’s open source too
Why didn’t they still not roll it out for general userbase?
Edit: Confused it with Microsofts new fs.
They did.
It’s up to OS developers to implement it or not on their OSes
I use libsfapfs on Linux, but as always when Apple does anything open source, the Linux community hates it
Darwin WebKit Swift and its compiler APFS ALAC …
The only widely used open source project from Apple that I know is CUPS
The only things in macOS that are not open source are related to its GUI.
But you know… Apple bad as usual
As a developer, most of Linux users I know develop in Java and dual-boot on Windows to play games.
The hardest problem in computer science is naming things. And counting things.
