Don't mess with a Ratel! They're bullet proof
It's also due to a strengthening of the US Dollar. It's the simplest way to make it look like the gold price has fallen, as does the Euro and the UK Pound also, to some extent, bitcoin! It's a strategy that has been used quite often in the last 6 months. You can't make any informed decision just looking at one thing like the gold price or bitcoin. even comparing bitcoin and gold only is inconclusive unless you analyse a basket of currencies and metals.I.e. Palladium and platinum have also dropped back a bit.
My opinion, has been correct in the past, but; your mileage may vary.
Agreed.
This is what billy boy's programmer friend based DOS on; note the origin 'Digital Research Inc'.
1974
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc.
Also
86-DOS became IBM PC-DOS when it shipped with the IBM PC in August of 1981. Later, Microsoft would sell PC-DOS under its own label as Microsoft MS-DOS. While developing 86-DOS, its creator, Tim Paterson, looked heavily to CP/M for inspiration, borrowing its general architecture and command-line nature.
How do I know this is correct? I lived through this period following it closely! Yes; I am a boomer! Live with it!
Billy got the gig at IBM through his mom who was close friends with the head of IBM. One hand washes the other. By the way, Billy boy didn't have much programming ability which is why he needed his friends.
MS-DOS originally written by Tim Paterson and introduced by Microsoft in August 1981 and was last updated in 1994 when MS-DOS 6.22 was released.
but; (You) do (You), irrespective of how incorrect your beliefs are. I know what I have lived through, used and, in some cases, survived.
By the way, Unix was made in 1969 for PDP-7 minicomputers. It was not a common system for any microcomputers. CP/M was more common and the first programming I did was in machine language for 8080. There was not much choice back then. Motorola was still a mom n pop organisation, big nevertheless but, more radio oriented. Time to do your own research rather than listening to an old experiencer.
Pile on all you like but, Cobalt is 21's century not from the early days of computing! I expect it's a 5GL rather than a true stand alone language.
There was Cobol, Pascal, Fortran and quite a few others. BASIC also shouldn't be forgotten. Most of the later model Den-X, Millennials and Gen-Z owe their existence, in at least some small part, to systems that were BASIC or initial program incarnations were in BASIC. I use C or the derivatives now.
Has been fun but, its time to hang it up now. See you all tomorrow. In my part of the world, its late at night.
good night anons