Notices by Ken McLeod (_the_cloud@mastodon.social)

@whitequark
[Chorus]
Is that what you want?
(Is it what you want?)
Is it what you really want?
(Is it what you really want?)
Is that what you want?
(Is it what you want?)
Is it what you really want?
-- Yours Truly, 2095 (from "Time" by Electric Light Orchestra)

@WarnerCrocker If you order clothing from ChatGPT, I feel like you would need to be very specific on details like how many arm holes and leg holes to provide.

@mac84tv What is in that MacWrite file named "BigMac.let", I wonder.

@thomasfuchs Yes. See alt text in the image for links.

Here's another case of a single pixel conveying information. In System 3.2/Finder 5.3, you could distinguish a Mac which had been upgraded with the new 128K Mac Plus ROM by looking at the amount of memory displayed in "About the Finder". If the machine has the newer ROM, then a dot is displayed at the end, e.g. "4096K."

#macintosh #retrocomputing

The 12 Disks of Christmas

#macintosh #retrocomputing

@amszmidt More choices:
- subroutine
- procedure
- function
- method
- closure