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0 pointsdmitrygr5mo ago0 comments

I still use a copy of Calc.EXE from Windows 2000 that I just move from machine to machine. It stopped being useful after that. That old one is nice. Hex mode. Starts quickly.

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spwa45mo ago· 3 in thread

I have a derive.exe from 1996 that I still use. TI's calculator, as an incredibly fast windows app that's like 20% of wolframalpha.

And to think on all "modern" OSes you can't even do that. Neither Android nor IOS let you do this in any way shape or form. Even with portable webapps it doesn't work, as webapps go offline. And microsoft clearly wants to create this situation too (last brute force attempt was windows home)

dmitrygrOP5mo ago

https://dmitry.gr/89

you can also "add to homescreen" on iOS/android and it acts like a native app & works offline. symbolic math - computer algebra system, integration/differentiation, finance app in rom, 3d graphs.

(emu is not my work, i only packaged it for PWA and host it for myself to use, but you are welcome to as well)

spwa45mo ago

Sure (and thanks for the link, do you have a TI-82 as well?) but it won't "last". You'll take the site offline, sooner or later and I can't just store an exe locally and use it in 20 years. I'll lose the ability to install it on phones.

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phonon5mo ago

Derive is more sophisticated. TI-89/92/Nspire is close though.

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RankingMember5mo ago· 2 in thread

If I could get regular security updates for Windows 2000 I might still be using it- peak Windows

netsharc5mo ago

I wonder if it's ancient enough that the exploits floating online are too modern for it...

Hah, I guess the Internet really is like a sewer, you have to have good protective equipment to wade in it...

dmitrygrOP5mo ago

This reasoning is actually why I ran Windows XP 64 bit edition for very very long. Most exploits found that it was XP and tried to do stuff and failed on the 64 bit kernel they did not expect.

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