Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes"

Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

 
What takes the chance from you to use your hardware for longer if you
want to?
 

The company started producing a new phone; all old phones were made
obsolete and were given away or sold to employees at very low price. I
quickly snatched two, very nice reliable phones. The main reason I
wanted the old phones was because their on-hook was a mechanical
disconnect from the telephone line. On-hook on new phones is a soft
disconnect meaning the phone is still physically connected to the line
and only a signal is sent to the central office telling it to
disconnect on its end. So new phones are a 'mouth' in your house
connected to the outside world when any number of 'ears' can easily
connect to it without need of any special equipment.  (A "mouth" can
connect to any number of "ears". An "ear", however, cannot connect to
multiple "mouths" without bridging equipment.)

In this day of age most phones are digital but some companies still
keep analog phones because of their better quality of service.  A
government regulating body (FCC?) came out with an edict a few years
ago mandating manufacturers to discontinue analog phones within 10
years; all phones are to be digital.

Where can I buy a new car that doesn't have a chip in it. The chip
drove many shade tree mechanics out of business not because it
provides better diagnostics but because of license costs, update
costs, software compatibility costs (software not standard across
makes, models, and age)
Also, congress recently mandated new cars shall have a remote kill
switch.

One might get 10 year updates for a new higher end chromebook. But
most cheap chromebooks will have updates only for 3 to 5 years.  After
which, the chromebook is still usable but the chrome apts are still
"progressing" until at some point they no longer work with the
outdated chomebook OS. When I access gmail on my chromebook, it
bitches at me to update the OS. But chrome won't update my OS unless I
get a new chomebook.

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me