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    How Does One Explain The Difference In The Size & RAM Usage Of Modern Operating Systems?

    @Cory5412 mm yeah sorry I didn't meant lazy as in not wanting to do any lengthy job. eg just an annoyance toward these that use a jack-of-trade fat library to produce a slow app/ux instead of a more prune relevant library for a good one (of course bypassing the library in favour of direct ux/app...
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    How Does One Explain The Difference In The Size & RAM Usage Of Modern Operating Systems?

    @Paralel its a rather convoluted topic but just to try sum up *a tiny bit* of it.. 1. lot of high-level abstractions (system 7 probably drew directly to the graphic engine while windows 95 had to go through the directx api and windows 11 probably is relatively much worser not to mention the...
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    PowerMacs, Laptops and iMac G4 – Oh my!

    these media 100 cards sure are quite long just like the targa pci (say I just have to wonder if the media 100 itself is also roughly 12" long too? asking in name of as far as these "6 or 12 inch pci slots" sort of mac specs went for certain models yeah) sorry to be a little ot here but I wonder...
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    ati xclaim vr pro?

    someone correct me if I'm wrong but I'm suspecting at least one someone is sprouting false info that sadly seem to be getting reposted quite a few too many times everywhere on the web .. the 'xclaim vr pro' card's pn (now that I found a good photo that had one visible) actually seem to refer to...
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    ati xclaim vr pro?

    mm I'm probably getting curious about this because at least one of the pro card lists an apple # on it but as far as I can tell either it must had been a custom thing or someone been too goofing up with passing off a windows pci card as an apple-compatible one..guess I'm going look some more
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    ati xclaim vr pro?

    is there really such a card? because neither 2000-dated ati.com has it nor does the discounted products list in 2006-dated ati.amd.com either but yet I've seen at least two ebays and a handful of very generic webshops with the card listed by that name nevertheless I'm wondering if its just a...
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    OS install disks

    mm someone else could correct me but at some point osx dropped the ability to even just read-only disks although I think there was for certain a third party patch to reenact some support again tho .. just not sure if that patch was also going to work on arm platform too .. anyone?
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    interests in sharing mechanical keyboard pcb order?

    the story; initially I was just going to order an existing tkl pcb to start with for now and later figure out how to get a separate cables-daisychained custom-made numpad to go together with it at some point .. but then by some chance while looking at more keyboards-related webshops I managed to...
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    odd question regarding adb function keys..

    @joevt mm interesting .. anyhow I was also curious about using higher function keys for certain aux inputs-related devices as the os wouldn't had recognized such keypresses itself anyhow
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    odd question regarding adb function keys..

    how many function keys was actually supported in software? or was f15 generally the highest as far as pre-usb went? I did thoughtfully try have a quick look at the macos9-compatible quickey documentation still available on their website but not surprisingly it actually didn't even mention much...
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    original macintosh keyboard..but not vintage..

    @Juror22 yeah I suspect that link is more of a groupbuy update kind of page rather than an actual specification page and regarding arrow keys, as far as I can tell from a quick look on the web it seem that the original setup basically overlaid the arrowkeys onto the separately-provisioned...
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    original macintosh keyboard..but not vintage..

    rather its a mechanical&usb retake of it :-) https://qoda.studio/m0110 I know a separate keycap set would fix certain little things like the modifier key spellings tho so don't nitpick too much about the factory photos? ;-)
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    g3 keyboards and the green pcb by top..

    I'm simply curious about it but the skinny main pcb that provides the usb ports/cable aside to the one power key itself.. could one had reused that on its own (without the main keyboard panel) as a crazy man's oversized power button for a non-apple usb keyboard? I'll just mention this: this is...
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    matias keyboards experience?

    thanks @shadedream I've indeed noticed a few projects that either had matias switches in a different chassis (on a slight different note: I've even seen a few people who have taken to custom caps in non-beige colour for their appledesign keyboards!) looking to order a keychron with custom...
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    quick question about wombat adb-usb..

    thanks, I'll willingly give this a try and hopefully remember to report back here about it a few weeks later or so even if its only the mouse that turns out to be a bit of constant nitpick to me and I end up deciding to use separate individual mouses instead, that still would leave me happy re...
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    quick question about wombat adb-usb..

    I know I could had asked him (the wombat creator) but thought that here first might seem better for now.. I know its been mentioned that adb does not really like to hotswap even although sometimes one seem to still get away with it, but even then I just had to wonder if basically hotswapping an...
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    matias keyboards experience?

    you like to 'drive' your keyboard don't you? is super short for 'super fuel'? ;-) just a friendly small suggestion but always could think of replacing 'home' with 'garage' someday if you feel like that :-) (driving to the garage sounds better than driving to the home) as for noise, I wasn't...
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    matias keyboards experience?

    @macuserman haha I had and at still rare times see too-flaming topics elsewhere in the name of 'mechanicals are heavy and makes noise so i do not want them' versus 'do not make me thump you with my ibm m! now thats a real typist tank there' parties trading blows with each others :-) I'm...
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    matias keyboards experience?

    @joevt the lack of non-wireless from apple was exactly why I tried this matias keyboard at that time, and thanks for telling me that it indeed seem to be a quality thing with them re the keys. the small volume knob is indeed an odd thing thats very out of view that you just never seem to ever...
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    matias keyboards experience?

    wondering if anyone else here has been using a matias keyboard a lot too? have the wired aluminium keyboard here, and at this point I'm wondering if its just my particular setup (skin healthwise as well) or that the matias quality itself is not as great as it should had been .. a few of the...
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