Posts by idv

I haven't bought new pants for years, why do I have to keep buying new PCs?

Absolutely.

Windows 3.x in Standard Mode, with an old-enough Trumpet Winsock and the 16-bit Netscape (up to 4.08).

(I've got a Tandy 3000 somewhere around here with exactly that setup.)

...not that it'll be able to access pretty much any modern website, between TLS and current JS/CSS.

China compromised F-35 subcontractor and forced expensive software system rewrite, academic tells MPs

Re: Now I read

Asimov, 1958, "The Feeling of Power".

(Reprinted in Robot Dreams, which you're more likely to have read...)

https://archive.org/stream/1958-02_IF#page/n5/mode/2up