From: mutazilah@gmail.com   
      
   "Waldek Hebisch"  wrote in message   
   news:vb86lo$rkts$1@paganini.bofh.team...   
      
   > Mainframes are too expensive to use them as simple PC from 30 years   
   > ago.  And unlike old PC there is almost no programs ready to   
   > run on Paul's system.   
      
   When I've "finished", there should be a complete toolchain   
   and microemacs editor, so any C90 source code should work   
   (including with embedded ANSI for text fullscreen).   
      
   > Times have changed and users now want more from their machines.   
      
   Times are changing again, and I want more from my users.   
      
   I'm looking forward to the day when everyone switches on their   
   machines and they're all bricked because Intel and AMD had a   
   drop dead date in their CPUs.   
      
   I'll be last man standing in the Philippines with my Zhaoxin CPU,   
   and of course the mainframes will still be working.   
      
   Or something like that. There was a recent bricking of machines   
   worldwide due to an ACCIDENT at Crowdstrike.   
      
   Now what happens when there is a DELIBERATE attack from   
   someone in (or who has hacked) Microsoft?   
      
   I do my development on Windows 2000 - the last version that   
   didn't need authentication - and I can run it under Linux on a   
   Zhaoxin CPU. The Zhaoxin comes with a BIOS (in Chinese -   
   good grief) - that allows me to run PDOS/386 too.   
      
   Last. Man. Standing.   
      
   I have my backup plan. Good luck to everyone else.   
      
   I charge $1000/minute for programming services, and $1000/minute   
   for time on my Zhaoxin.   
      
   You got PDOS for free though.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)