Honestly the cult of Jobs is a bit much. I appreciate his contribution to computing, but this is too much.

+1

Just wait until Musk dies.

EAC-1101 In March 1958, NEC finished its first digital computer, the NEAC-1101. This machine used parametrons, invented by Eiichi Goto in 1954, and was perfected by using a single-turn transformer coupling system independently devised by NEC. This computer was designed for scientific and engineering calculations, and was Japan's first computer to use floating point operations. It was capable of decimal 7-digit floating point operations. It used 3,600 parametrons, 29 types of instructions, and had average performance of 3.5ms for addition/subtraction and 8.0ms for multiplication/division. The memory employed ferrite cores (magnetic core matrix system using the 2 ACs with different frequency), and memory capacity was 256 words (32-digit configuration). The NEAC-1101 was enhanced via improvements like expanding the memory capacity to 512 words, and was used for about 8 years for scientific and engineering calculations at NEC's research laboratory. The results from developing this computer contributed greatly to the development of subsequent parametron computers at NEC.

https://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/dawn/0017.html

Some years later, Goto was considered harmful :-)

Argh, beat me to it, you bastard :-).

Eiichi Goto used to joke that he was always being eliminated after Dijkstra's letter came out.

At 8.0ms for mult/div, that would make it right on par with a Commodore 64's BASIC math routines, even though it came 24 years earlier. That's pretty freaking impressive.

Interesting additional info, IMO this doesn’t deserve the downvotes.

There were many in the Coast Guard arguing to keep LORAN running. This was one of the reasons.

Steve Job was a dick and Apple is a horrible company, say it ain't so.

Apple from Jobs to Cook screwed over many. At least Jobs didn't train the Chinese to undercut US manufacturing.

"NEWS" outlets are competing against social media and are doing things to get your attention.

Some "NEWS" outlets are leaning towards activism and the others are leaning towards entertainment. NEWS companies are now either Media or Technology companies. And journalism has taken a backseat to doing things to get attention

Your post is a good description of how journalism has operated for hundreds of years. Maybe we're seeing that the twentieth century was just a (positive) blip and now we're regressing to the mean.

If they brought up CDI and Pippin, then why leave out Commodore CDTV and CD32?

My stock CD32 doesn't have any connectivity that would support a browser. Adding an SX-1 module would make the unit a lot like an Amiga 1200 in a silly case w/ a CD-ROM drive, but you'd be limited to serial connectivity and SLIP/PPP (since there's no PCMCIA slot-- the typical method of adding Ethernet connectivity to an A1200).

I didn't have a CDTV so I can't comment on the hardware specifics. If I remember right it's an Amiga 500 (or 500+?) in a funny case w/ a CD-ROM and would suffer from the same lack of connectivity as the CD32.

SGI had unified memory back in 1996.

As a person who likes hand made items I'm for this. I will pay a premium for someone who hand makes an item. Bonus if it's someone older who provides old school craftsmanship.

I really want to make a joke about representation, but more to the point.

Having different ethnic people targets different demographics. We hear about people from various groups wanting this and now someone is doing it.

They seem to be getting traction by doing this. If it works for them others will follow.

My wife is in a Union and she has been getting info that has nothing to do with her job. Some unions cross pollinate with whatever cause someone in the union is interested in. She wants a raise but can't because of collective bargaining, but the union isn't doing anything about that. However they are talking about other political issues. So her dues are not helping her but whatever political issue is being promoted.