For a long time using a computer means dealing with spinning rust, and while SSDs exist nowadays...

That being said at least in one case “The pedestrian push buttons have been deactivated and crosswalks are currently operating on a timer”.

Isn’t needlessly disabling the safety device on the authorities though?

SV road signs are constantly covered in graffiti. They don’t just take them down until a replacement arrives.

AFAIK this was based on Windows 3.1 standard mode which was small enough to package in a mini.cab.

AFAIK while AMD didn't produce the 387 there was alternatives from for example Cyrix and IIT at the time.

And the socket-compatible, better-than-the-original Weitek 3167.

http://www.weitek.com/textual/products/wtl3167.html

I wonder how much revenue Twitter has from ads and subscriptions.

On the other hand, Xorg pulled the original -vga driver quite a long time ago because it was quite a lot of code.

There is a MS13-xxx bulletin that had a bug where full screen DOS was completely broken when /NOEXECUTE=OPTOUT was set in boot.ini

Part of the reason why I pay attention to Marginalia search is the hardware problems it shows. There are now some good papers on SSD based search engines.

Part of the point of SSD based search engines is they are much easier to cold boot as well.