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sailingdarter··on A-10 Pilot’s Compelling Case for Replacing Warthogs with Super Hornets
Very well written. I think people focus too much on the plane (myself included) and not enough on the community and skillset that will be lost if a transition is not done carefully to another platform. I've seen it happen in my career, and once that set of relationships and knowledge is lost, it's next to impossible to rebuild.
sailingdarter··on The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today
I would argue that Classic Mac OS was not that much better off.

It still lacked protected memory and preemptive multitasking.

The Amiga OS still had far better multi tasking abilities than Classic Mac OS

sailingdarter··on Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1
There is a similar Client for System 7 called LegacyAI that has been making waves in VintageApple circles
sailingdarter··on The forty-year programmer
I am curious. What shareware did you develop back in the day?