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But I guess, that’s the price you have to pay for machines that are linked to public networks.

I doubt many PCs, that are dependent on rewriteable storage could survive todays world without all the protection of kernel modes & security boundaries provided by the OS.
Not a problem for machines that have their OS in ROM (like we had 25 yrs ago).
The CPUs we used back then were running at roughly the same speed as the ROMs.

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My eyes are dewey with nostalgia and I feel your pain.
Unfortunately I think it’s an age thing. Curses!!!!
I’m sure the new tech is as exciting for the youngsters as it was for us ‘back in the day’.
Just like music, fashion etc.

Well thats what we’re lead to believe isn’t it but goddamitt it WAS better back then!!!!!
I’ll never forget the excitement of huddling round the ZX81 with my mates waiting the 20mins for Flight Simulator to load and then someone would breath on the 16K RAM pack and the machine would reset! Guilty party would get a good slapping and reload would recommence!! Yet we’d all sit there excitedly waiting to get a go stabbing our fingers on the keyboard that would of course not register our teenage digits!!! :-D
Or the excitement of waiting for a new Jeff Minter release..
Or the excitement of getting the VIC-20 Programmers guide and learning how to PEEK and POKE all those little hidden registers!

And I think that in essence was the difference – back ‘in the day’, the tech was S I M P L E. And you could be a master of it all. You knew everything about it all and could roll up your sleeves and dive in.

Whereas now, as each successive generation of OS removes us further and further from the bare metal it becomes more and more soulless. And a less fullfilling experience as a result.

Anyone agree???

Dave.

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