As a cat person, I can confirm that this is very cat.
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Why does the aft part of the Galaxy-class bridge not have any chairs?Why does the aft part of the Galaxy-class bridge not have any chairs?
Poor Worf, having to be on his feet standing in place all the time. Even the bridge officers on Klingon ships don't have to put up with that.
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into a given class of retrocomputer today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market.Hmm? I don't understand. Those are both 32-bit machines.
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into a given class of retrocomputer today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market.Windows 2.1 and later aren't entirely 16-bit. Apps run in real mode and use 20-bit segmented addressing, but if it's running on a 386 or later then the kernel will run 32-bit and map pages in and out of the 20-bit address space in response to GlobalLock calls.
But you'd have to wait until 1993 to get a Windows in which apps can directly use 32-bit addressing. That's when NT 3.1 and Win32s (a shim to run 32-bit code on regular Windows 3.1) came out.
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into a given class of retrocomputer today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market.Did you replace the system board at any point? As far as I know, the 5150 BIOS doesn't know how to boot from a hard drive.
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into a given class of retrocomputer today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market.You could have upgraded it to a 486. Not a Pentium, though—Pentium motherboards were ATX and needed the case to provide a soft power button.
As far as I know, nothing much changed after that, so you could put modern hardware in a Pentium-era case…although you might need to drill some extra vent holes in it and add some more fans!
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into a given class of retrocomputer today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market.I don't think you could buy any 8- or 16-bit computers in 1994. That was well into the 32-bit era.
The beginning of the end of the 16-bit era was 1986. That's when the 386 came out. It was obsolete in 1989, so that's when I'd say the 32-bit era had begun in earnest.