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Nice, this may be worth a Show HN. I'm not a Haiku user although I try it from time to time should it become interesting for my uses. Also I agree on the value
by squarefoot 5y ago
Nice, this may be worth a Show HN. I'm not a Haiku user although I try it from time to time should it become interesting for my uses.
Also I agree on the value of being exposed to the old way of doing things. I started coding on the Amiga, and the way its OS worked (no memory management) forced me to grow sane habits when for example dealing with memory allocation: if I didn't free a buffer before my program exited, that buffer would remain allocated until the next reboot. I once had to debug a small assembly program of mine that lost a longword (4 bytes) at every run; turned out I missed it when doing pointer calculations with registers, and the journey to monitor the program activity, find the problem and correcting the error has been of tremendous help years later.
- MrDOS 5y ago> Nice, this may be worth a Show HN. smallstepforman has submitted it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513557. Unfortunately, it didn't garner much attention.