And once upon a time there were more than three PC graphics card makers. The paranoid schizo US really fucked up scientific and technological progress.
Is it available on the internet archive or a computer museum site to try out the UI?
I know web design isn’t really related to what the article is about, but if modern Japanese web design is anything to go by, good. Here’s some random product (a phone case) I clicked on from the biggest Japanese online store (Rakuten), roughly the equivalent of amazon. Let me know if the product info seems well organized and easy to read, and tell me how long it takes to find the section that you can choose a different color and model (hint: it’s not at the top or bottom of the page).
Japanese customers genuinely do like it like that. Rakuten do A/B testing up the wazoo just like every other big ecommerce company.
Interesting how many TRON Association members were also adoptees of the MSX standard, which had similar (but less ambitious) goals to be “the” world computer interoperability standard. i wonder if that was why they jumped off the project at the first sign of trouble, thinking it was a good thing they didn’t keep all of their eggs in one basket. NEC likely ended up outperforming them both with the PC-98 anyway
It’s funny because I trust the Japanese government even less than the American government.
I suppose I’m not that up to date on Japanese government and politics. Can you elaborate?
They have a weakness for the sneak attack.
They paid for that already and your comment is disgusting but expected from an american.
I am not an American, your own prejudice seems to be showing. But of course you overlook that.
And people laugh at Rockstar for not showing footage before the leak.
People are sharks. It’s best not to ever preview what’s going to happen. Then you can’t lose.
Sad but true.
Hl3 when.
Next time don’t tell anyone until it’s out.
Something similar happened to Slovene Iskra Triglav computer which was quite advanced for the time (capable of running three different CPUs) but then caught in between US-Soviet cold war/embargo while trying to sell them to Soviet Union.
that computer sounds awesome, imagine something like this existed today(like a computer with a RISC-V,Arm64 and X86-64 CPU) .
Three CPUs with different architectures on one device sounds crazy. That’s amazing.
PS3 comes to mind
Though in embedded, thats fairly normal.
I’ve got a $1 linux embedded SoC that has a 64 bit riscv core, a 32 bit riscv core for running realtime stuff and a low power embedded 6502 on it too because why not.
Yeah, RP2350 in Raspberry Pi Pico 2 also has 2 ARM cores and 2 RISC-V cores.
Which reminds me, I purchased one a month ago to play around with as it has good documentation, yet I haven’t used it once so far.
Cool, which SoC?
Soviets did a lot to harm Eastern Block tech. Bulgarian Pravetz was a clone of Apple ][. Nothing impressive but cheap, functional, domestically produced. Can’t really be exported towards west due to blatant IP violations, but the production capabilities were good enough to produce and export hard drives.
Except the trade deal with Britain was blocked by Soviets because it was seen as a security threat, and an industry died in its infancy.
There’s another future where Yugoslavia is the birthplace of a free software movement, and homebuilt PCs lower the barrier of entry to anybody with some time on their hands, with software distributed by radio and powerline until the advent of internet.
Ah yes, I recently learned about Galaksija, it’s fascinating!
yugoslav.
slovenia wasn’t a country back then
The Socialist Republic of Slovenia was one of the six federal republics forming the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, if you want to be technical about it.
Iskra Delta was a Slovene (republic) company, even within Yugoslavia. But if you nitpick, then technically it would be Yugoslavia as country.
Once again fuck America
I’d say US/USians, as America is more than just the US. America is composed of more countries like Canada, Mexico, Brazil…
South America, North America, and North North America
The US could mean Mexico though.
How?
Probably referring to Mexico’s official name, Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
Thanks! I never knew it had a longer official name.
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Japan: We are not a vassal state (no really they say this in an argument with the Japanese Communist Party).
Meanwhile Japan:
I’d encourage everyone to read the article. It paints a far more nuanced picture than the headline suggests.
It gives more details, but it doesn’t particularly make the US not look like a bunch of dickholes whose definition of “free market” changes to shape whatever suits them from one moment to the next.
Nuanced yes, but it largely being driven by a Japanese guy who wanted to sell US software and US companies who didn’t want to compete by actually selling compatible hardware is no less damning.
Excuse me what?
And I wonder if it was a Unix-like operating system
