> IBM kinda screwed it up when they created CDE out of it though.

Could you please elaborate?

VUE was really "happy", clean. Sans-serif fonts. Cool colours. Funny design like a HP logo and on/off button on the dock.

IBM made it super suit and tie. Geriatric colour schemes with dark colours, formal serif fonts and anything cool removed.

Functionally it was the same (even two or three features were added) but it went from "designed for people" to "designed for business". Like everything that IBM got their hands on in those days (these days they make nothing of consequence anymore anyway, they're just a consulting firm).

It was really disappointing to me when we got the "upgrade". And HP was really dismissive of VUE because they wanted to protect their collaboration deal.

I think 10.30 was peak HP-UX. 11 and 11i were the decline.

Reminds me of 3D Dot Game Heroes for the PS3.

Yes, for now. But:

"Task Explorer is built using the Qt Framework, ensuring a cross-platform user interface with plans to eventually port the tool to Linux, which could make it one of the first advanced, GUI-based task managers for the platform."

Feels like the UI should be the least of your worry when wanting to port a task manager from Windows to Linux/macOS, but maybe I'm imagining it worse than it is.

For Windows 98 Second Edition there is the unofficial Service Pack 3, https://www.htasoft.com/u98sesp/

There is also https://windowsupdaterestored.com/ but it needs some tweaking to get it to run mostly because of the url change and ssl certificates...

A curated list of development resources for Game Boy Advance.

Does the cloud complex where our Sun was born still exist?

Good question. I'm not an astrophysicist but..

Solar system is 4.5 billion years old. The sun has been around the galaxy 18 times since forming.

And as you can see from that image the gases that make up star forming regions are literally blown around by the nearby stars.

So combining fragility of a nebula with time plus 18 loops and I think it's totally gone.

Plus I saw a YouTube video a few days ago that theorised that earth sized rocky planets would only form around suns in star forming regions with nearby massive bright stars that would be actively tearing the nebula apart at the same time that the planets were forming.

Likely the stars born from it (including ours) accreted most of the gas & dust and the rest dissipated through stellar radiation pressure. Its been more than 5 billion years.

Could be, the date I mentioned is when I could afford buying a P166, and I didn't bother to check the interwebs for the release date, now I have gone and found it, depending on the exact variation from P5 or P6, it could have been released between 1995 and 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Pentium

net send * "message" in a batch script loop was even more fun.

OP may want to take a look at "Shell script best practices" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33354286) submitted two days ago. :)

Nice! Thanks for sharing. I also learned about shellcheck thanks to this thread, which has been super useful