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Not a great choice of name given the existence of https://www.snowflake.com https://www.snowflake.com
by djmobley 7y ago
Not a great choice of name given the existence of https://www.snowflake.com https://www.snowflake.com
- masswerk 7y agoCoincidentally, it's also the name of a famous, early graphics demo (1960s), compare https://www.masswerk.at/snowflake https://www.masswerk.at/snowflake (URL redirects to an emulation on the same site).
- zwirbl 7y agothose are awesome! thanks for the link
- BuildTheRobots 7y agoCuriousMark has a PDP11 video that has some of these demos running on the original hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWQYAfuMYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWQYAfuMYw His videos are surprisingly addictive; they've restored an Apollo guidance computer, Altos and tonnes of other ancient kit.
- masswerk 7y agoI'm actually a great fan, highly recommended!
- danpalmer 7y agoOr https://snowflakesoftware.com/ https://snowflakesoftware.com/
- zamadatix 7y agoYou could write an entire OS single handedly, name it via a password generator, and one of the comments on HN would be how the name is still somewhat similar to <x> instead of talking about the project.