When I was in college (in 1995), this one guy was going on about a free OS that was incredible. All I could think of was, sure, a free OS that is good, what a joke is that going to be. So together with another friend we decided to install this free OS and have a good laugh.
The laugh was on us, it was indeed incredible, offering multitasking, multi user, memory protection, the cli was so powerful, and on top of all that, all the code was open.

they are competing against the Valve SteamDeck, which is their main worry as it could interrupt the dominance of Windows as the main pc gaming OS.

"Grigar says they're still looking for a PC that reads five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks."

Is that so special these days?

leave it to demo coders to push hardware to the limits, specific the ones that target retro computers. sometimes i can hardly believe what i'm seeing.

i only buy games on sale, granted, you'll have to wait, but you save a lot of money, steam sales or humble bundles are really great to get lots of games on the cheap. typically i never spend over €10 on my games.

who remembers the first few versions of gimp when gtk (gimp toolkit) wasn't even a thing and it used lesstif instead.
ok, i'm old...

turning 50 this year, i remember them all, started with an Amstrad CPC664, this was their first computer room, working together with a local computer store, at the end of the year we had the option to purchase the computers. Next year a permanent room was installed, it contained mostly commodore vic20 computers and a few c64, ofcourse, it was a matter of being first so you could claim the c64. one also had a printer and a floppy drive, the only software for it was print shop, lets just say many banners were printed that year :D
the next upgrade was to IBM ps2 desktop models, at the end, it were just clone ibm pc's from local shops.

way back, we didn't all have computers and only had limited access to them, maybe once a week for a few hours.
the rest of the week we used the computer and created code only in our head, to test out at that one moment we had access to one.

the gameboy was the worst portable console in specs, and still it was the biggest. nintendo somehow knows what is important and makes it work.

VMware was a defacto standard in virtualization, much like IBM was many decades ago in compute, it was what you used and nothing else.
Something like that doesn't last forever ofcourse, like we are seeing now. Successful, big migrations like this one, will push others to do the same.

OS/2 Warp was pretty great, and the version as it should have been first released at. Now the real big public marketing push really only happened with Warp. I also remember you could buy pc's (from other brands, not IBM!) with OS/2 Warp pre-installed.
There were not many OS/2 native applications I used on it, but it was great at multitasking DOS and Windows 3.x applications. I ran my 2 node BBS on it, in the background while still using my pc (an AMD 486DX with 8MB ram) to do my other things (schoolwork and programming, etc.) without issues. Windows 95 didn't impress me, and the only thing that got me of Warp was Linux.

What about Atari, you'd see them popping up in sci-fi movies, most famously in blade runner.

"Sweeney is a big proponent of open platforms"

this must be the biggest joke of the week, proponent of open platforms, as long as it's windows.

there is an anime for everybody, the range of production quality is so big it is impossible to say that all anime is badly drawn and animated. the most well known anime movie productions are in fact admired because of their quality animation (akira, ghost in the shell, all of ghibli).

it's a miracle things work as well as they do, there is so much software running that is hanging together by virtual duct tape. it is amazing and scary at the same time.