This mostly describes stuff to do with the [Windows] NT [OS][/2] (delete as appropriate) kernel layer, which normal mere mortals aren't supposed to interact with. You're supposed to use stuff like the Win32 KERNEL32.DLL not the more direct DLL, NTDLL.DLL (a DLL). Of course, true hackers scorn such abstractions.
IIRC Microsoft's internal email still ran on Xenix at the time (until Exchange betas got good enough for internal use c. 1995?), so perhaps more trademarks than some sort of absolute hatred of Unix. Also note that one of the two APIs that NT OS/2 was initially going to support was POSIX, albeit perhaps more because the US government wanted that than a true love of UNIX. Although the design rationale document (ntdesrtl) does lament that existing POSIX test suites tend to also test "...UNIX
folklore that happens to be permissible under an interpretation of the POSIX spec".
When were you watching? The US All Channel Receiver Act was passed in 1962. Prior to that UHF stations did struggle in the first decade of UHF TV in the US as few TVs had UHF tuners. The situation improved after that as they became standard and more and more people could actually watch the extra channels.
Just as a slight extension to this, in the UK VHF was used for the original 405 line (~376i) analogue TV system used for 1936-39 and then 1946 until it turned off in the 1980s, so any ariels still up probably haven't been used for decades.
UHF was used for the newer 625 line (576i) PAL colour TV system, starting in 1964 with the launch of BBC2 (colour in 1967) and then BBC1 and ITV in 1969 when they went into colour. Analogue TV was switched off in 2012, and digital TV is only UHF only.
BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting) was a failed satellite TV service notably using a smaller square dish compared to their rival Sky (old Sky analogue dishes were quite bigger than the "minidish" used for digital, and you don't see them around much either). They also used the fairly obscure DMAC TV system, whilst Sky used standard PAL. The pretty quickly "merged" with Sky, hence Sky's legal name for a long time was British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB).
There are actually existing copies of 405-line TV programmes on tape, because domestic VCRs would quite happily record it. Each "stripe" of a head rotation is a complete field, and as long as they're coming every 1/50th of a second it doesn't really care what if any line sync pulses you want to feed it.
I don't remember us having 405-line TV because by the time they built out transmitters that far north in the early 70s there was no point, but I remember going round to a neighbour's house down south with my dad in the late 70s when they asked him to repair their TV. I remember the objectionably loud 10kHz line whistle which my elderly neighbours just couldn't hear :-)
Not from the era, but I suspect serious enterprise stuff (accounts, ERP etc.) in the 80s would generally be on minicomputers and mainframes, so you’re probably getting into stuff like RPG, PL/I, COBOL and myriad other languages that have faded away from common use.
That U-turn was very fast. I guess they realised whilst Animate only has a small user base nowadays, they tend to people who really need that specific tool (with no Adobe tool providing an alternative) like animation studios. It’s still dead (Jim) but at least its zombie corpse will keep on shambling along for users.
Point some sort of video recorder (like another phone) at the screen then.
Tedious to then stitch frames together into one image to share it on Twitter or whatever (or just post the video, everything’s video now because everything sucks).
The fact with Software-as-a-Scam subscription stuff discontinued software doesn’t just mean "it'll probably bitrot away over time" (probably a bit more aggressively with MacOS than Windows) to "it'll just be gone" is kinda mad. See also Microsoft Publisher. These are supposedly professional tools, surely they can still make it available with a "YMMV" disclaimer so they don't leave their own customers (and their work) in the lurch.
To add insult to injury, the obvious path is for studios to switch from Adobe to ToonBoom... which already copied Adobe's playbook by going subscription-only last year.
You probably wouldn’t like 20 year old Notepad’s habit of leaving Unicode BOMs everywhere, or only supporting CRLF line endings. They did improve it a tiny amount circa Windows 10.
Does Windows 11 Notepad still choke on loading large files?
Replacing Office with Microsoft 365 as the brand is still stupid. I was messing with Windows 11 a while back pre Copilot, and in the start menu was a pre installed spam link for “Microsoft 365 (Office)”. The fact they had to put the old brand in parentheses at the end should have been a hint they’re doing something stupid.
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