My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since.
I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.
I appreciate the conversation around WA this Ask HN has started, but yeah you've basically completely answered the original question by pointing this out.
They're just serving up answers which is boring to HN readers. Where's the drama in collecting data privately? Where's the drama from censoring results? No drama == No interest? Gawd, I have become cynical.
I had Ultima 6 for the Atari ST. Running off floppies was kind of slow. My friend's Atari ST machine had 4MB of memory. So I set up a 3MB RAM disk. And installed the game to 'hard disk' with the RAM disk as the hard disk. Then all I had to do was format some floppies to really high density. The entire U6 installation fitted on (I think) 2 floppies. I also used a rapid file copy program.
I copied the files to RAM disk, played the game, saved the game, quit the game, and saved the files back to floppies.
I ordered 2 books from Amazon last week. An email said 'delivered' but nothing in the letterbox or outside the house. A chat to a friendly neighbour revealed he had a parcel put in between his dustbins. I went to my bins and there were the books. Not pleased at this, I expect a sane experience.
I had an Amiga 1200 and got it working with a VGA monitor soldered onto the connector (like a VGA adapter on Ebay now) and a setup VGA file in Workbench 3. It looked great in 640x480, no chunkiness. So it is possible.
