Well, the standard window title bar still does. But with so many apps implementing their own borders, it's a bit of a crapshoot if it (or the window menu itself) will work with many apps. Even Microsoft apps sometimes forget, like Teams (of course...).
Octopus cards had already been introduced in Hong Kong, and I think similar cards had been trialled elsewhere, so it might be that sort of thing they’re thinking of?
I think I’ve seen iButtons used occasionally on self checkouts for staff authentication (age check or the scales fucking up like they always do etc.), although with most they just use a magic barcode or a pin / password.
They're used quite frequently in the UK in bars/pubs where there are several people serving drinks and (I assume) there's some metric tracking by management on till use.
They're used in various hackerspaces around the world for membership administrivia .. Metalab in Vienna, for example, uses them as a door lock mechanism ..
See also FCVTMOD.W.D in RISC-V. The fact that you have to provide a way covert doubles to int32 like x86 does because of JavaScript is a weird design greeble all future ISAs will probably have til the end of time…
I suspect SGI and DEC / Compaq could look at a chart and see that with P6 Intel was getting very close to their RISC chips, through the power of MONEY (simplification). They weren't hitting a CISC wall, and the main moat custom RISC had left was 64 bit. Intel's 64 bit chip would inevitably become the standard chip for PCs, and therefore Intel would be able to turn its money cannon onto overpowering all 64 bit RISCs in short order. May as well get aboard the 64 bit Intel train early.
Which is nearly true 64 bit Intel chips did (mostly) kill RISC. But not their (and HP's) fun science project IA64, they had to copy AMD's "what if x86, but 64 bit?" idea instead.
Possibly some issues with the hose length and the ability control the flow? Or perhaps it’s just an off the shelf up chuck chucker that doesn’t have a longer hose?
I think we are also forgetting that the crew member IS a part of the scene. They have to see the actor and respond to their actions to make sure the flow aligns. It’s much harder to control the flow as it pertains to the actor if you have the latency of a long pipe.
And having the real product on set allows the other actors to give realistic reactions.
AFAIK most StarMax systems that were released (a prototype exists of a CHRP StarMax model) are based on the Tanzania / LPX-40 design, which is mostly a traditional PCI PowerMac[1], albeit with oddities like support for PC style floppy drives. PS/2 is handled by the CudaLite microcontroller which presents it to the OS as ADB devices for example. I've not heard of a version with ISA slots, although I assume you could just have a PCI to ISA bridge chip, even if MacOS presumably wouldn't do anything with it.
Right, I think those were the closest we got to the CHRP standard, as they moved the platform toward PC-style floppies, PS/2, ATX PSU and even more generic "platform" stuff than most clones. I'm fairly sure I had an ISA slot, I do remember trying to get a bargain bin NE2K card working in mine under linux (it didn't work). Definitely did nothing under OS 8/9.
The powercity models were interesting, because they came out after Apple revoked Motorola's clone license. A German company, ComJet, bought up the boards and sold unlicensed clones cheap. Case was slightly different, but otherwise they corresponded to StarMax models (fairly certain they were identical but may have been last revision boards).
Clicking the "100%" next to the zoom slider gets another Word 6.0 refugee, complete with nice pixel art 4:3 CRT.
In Windows 10, Wordpad and Paint can both bring up the classic Windows 3.x colour picker Window, complete with the inscrutable Custom Colours bit. Although Wordpad is gone in Windows 11 and I don't think the Windows 11 Paint has the classic picker. It still (IIRC) has a colour arrangement in its new picker that is based on the classic pickers default colour set. Which were chosen because they dither nicely to 16 colours with the Windows 3.x dither algorithm.
I think some of the more academic discussions on CPUs can often be stuck in the late-1980s 5 stage classic RISC paradigm. Those really would cripple your performance for misaligned access, as it would raise an OS exception and make the kernel fix things rather than trying to fix it up to you in hardware.
x86 has always been forgiving to misaligned access, and high end ARM has evolved towards forgiving over time. So you get into far more complex scenarios of how much of a penalty the CPU has fixing up alignment vs the whopping penalty a cache miss gives you with modern memory speeds.
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