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My Dad runs a website for his Meccano hobby, and as far as I know their webring is still active: http://nzfmm.co.nz/ https://meccano.link/

I was definitely surprised to see an active web ring.

Obligatory zx81 version, video: http://www.frequency.com/video/just-released-for-zx81-is-qua... The official homepage: http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/quack.html

This C64 version is pretty awesome though!

That's cool, for those interested, here's the link to the original ascii Star Wars at Simon's website: http://asciimation.co.nz

I will not be getting a surface. I took a borrowed one home to show my wife, she hated it. She wanted the interface switched around since she's left handed, charms on the left and swipe right for more pages, I couldn't figure out how to do it, but I didn't look that hard.

I'm also forbidden from installing Windows 8 on her laptop and the games machine.

Personally I don't like how I need to be connected to the cloud all the time to do anything.

He is one of the Hackers in Steven Levy's Book pubished in 1984:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...

Very commonly used in New Zealand, its used on TV with no problems, heres the iconic Toyota ad using the word bugger to good effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKY_OysWu3k

I'd be scared of it automatically downloading inappropriate or even worse illegal stuff from the search results. Try explaining to the boss you did not visit that nsfw site but it merely turned up in your search results.

Gutted, I thought it was open source. That would have been cool but I'm still impressed they managed to ship anything at all.

Yeah, I don't think you'd be targeting your latest masterpiece at this. Probably it will receive mostly ports of existing software.

Cheers, thanks for the clarification.

Fair enough :)

That makes sense, However there must be some killer feature that makes them superior to the x64 architecture. Could it be memory architecture? Power efficiency? How would you explain to a PHB the advantages it gives you over x64?