It was not like lot's of very talented Amiga devs didn't try their very best to create a Wolfenstein/Doom clone for their platform, but iirc the bitplane setup used by Amiga gfx, which enabled lot's of other cool features did not perform well with the opereations needed for "3D" games.
Then with Quake, the 3rd party 3D graphics cards market took off, and even if there were cards for the Amigas too, market economics made them unviable.
And even though I usually appreciate Datagubbe's writings, this time I think his take is incorrect. At least in my circles Wolfenstein / Doom and ultimately Quake was the final nails in the Amiga's coffin.
Sure, the picture is bigger - PC market drove down prices and very soon the price/performance difference was very unfavorable for Amiga - but at least initially the issue was kids wanted to play Wolfenstein, Doom, or at least something similar, and that was not possible if you stayed on the Amiga.
4. Bind eval-region to easy to reach key for testing and troubleshooting
Emacs is a what I would call an extreme case of a positive feedback loop application, the more effort and time you put in learning it, the more you get back. This is of course true for almost any application, but with Emacs being a complete text manipulation system more effort is required.
I ran OpenBSD on a Thinkpad T450 for over a year, but recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, not because of lack of speed, but some missing applications and blutooth support.
Given I don't run a heavy desktop environment, rather just StumpWM, but still I did not in any way feel OpenBSD was slower than Linux, using the same applications.
OpenSUSE is the most solid Linux I have used so far, but OpenBSD was more to my liking setting up and maintaining. It is well thought out, simple, and... just makes sense.
IIRC that was one of the two/three main ways forward discussed and planned for after Be Inc went belly up.
- OpenBeOS (Haiku) - rewrite from scratch
- Option 2 (can't remember if it had a name) - was just to Implement BeOS userland on a Linux, to get free access to drivers etc. Most of the Be community was not interested, and I cannot remember if they even got started..?
- (YellowTab - Some company had access to BeOS sources and started releasing and somewhat updating the OS on a commercial basis - but don't think they actually had the rights to do that....)
This would probably have meant that the Mac wouldn't have become so popular amongst developers. At least that was the reason for me to switch to Mac because it's a "proper" UNIX with a window system that actually works ("Linux on the desktop" has mostly caught up in the meantime, but 10 years ago that was quite different).
BeOS was less compatible. There were also many improvements to it in the later versions. When NeXT bought Apple[0], BeOS was not even in its pre-release phase. Its heyday, such as it were, was really on Intel, with R5 and the Personal Edition, in the last few years of the 90's.
Airtable is fantastic for so many things, I only wish there was a cheaper "personal" plan with more records, for a couple of bucks / month.
I can't really justify $10 / month for "just for fun" personal projects, and the 1200 records / base is too limited for many ideas (and also 5000 records for $10/month is on the low side as well, even if putting it as a company expense)
Yes, I know, they got to eat and everything, and maybe cost vs income is not feasible for personal accounts.
Someone mentioned in some other thread there is some airlines looking into having seats that when reclining, instead of pushing the backrest into the space behind you, your seat slides forward, and thereby tilting the backrest.
But this was met with great protests from others who think crushing long legged people´s knees is a god given right.
"If you don't want your knees crushed, you should have paid extra for one of the four seats with more leg room" "they were already taken? Tough luck"
Having a ThinkPad X230 in daily use with OpenBSD, have to say it's an excellent laptop and everything just works. Even the WAN, which can be turned on using `ifconfig` and is handy in places with no wifi, such as the country house.
the books are still on my to read list.