[catblast01]

> In early PC's, the way you ran software was to copy code from a magazine and compile and run it on your workstation. Being a PC user at all meant being a tinkerer/hacker a few decades ago.

Bullshit. Except for the brief period of time when the Altair was the only thing going on in the Micro space… the Apple II, Atari 800, IBM PC and TRS-80 amongst others were marketed in the late 70s/early 80s with off the shelf, ready to run software. While copying code out of a magazine was something you could do, it wasn’t even the common case then.

> Every release makes it harder to run arbitrary code.

I have not experienced this. Yes Mac OS makes it harder to run random stuff downloaded from the internet, but Llvm, clang, cmake, python from the command line works the same as they always have (you are fetishizing code that is entered yourself after all).

[skohan]

The new windows does not even run on hardware which doesn't have TMP. You really don't see signs that computers are getting more closed?

[pjmlp]

PC was an accident caused by IBM's failure to put Compaq into line.

All other platforms were hardly any different from Apple, in fact Apple is just like they always have been