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[birt]

Originally Posted by Crudd[RET]

Man I miss those days... Nothing seems to have the raw power that SI use to have...

Yeah, I completely agree, the only downside was having to take notes on actual paper. I remember having notebooks full of seemingly random addresses.

I figure it wouldn't be impossible to make a similar kernel-level debugger nowadays, but the effort would probably be disproportionately large when compared to the payout so nobody really wants to do it. I'm guessing Compuware discontinued SI because it wasn't particularly lucrative.

[dosprog]

Originally Posted by birt

I'm guessing Compuware discontinued SI because it wasn't particularly lucrative.

Also, the fact that people are aging and leaving the industry.
Young people are not capable.
imho.

.. and the fact that the OS has become much more complicated over the last twenty years ..

[chants]

The terminal forced people to have to learn before use. Now the touch screen and social media mania has seemed to create a generation whose focus is more convenient for political control than the area of computing. And as far as is told, businesses are feeling this already.