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...you are going to get downvoted. I would be a sad excuse of a being if I feared what some people on a random forum will think of me, or "downvote" me in some arbitrary, imaginative system. The entire thing is a delusion. Not sin
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"And what of Nichiren who famously declared that enlightenment was impossible in such a fallen world?" Nothing, or better yet, no thing. They're just wrong.
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Everything is a delusion. There is a reason why the gate is gateless, and it's the same reason why "no thing" is a recurring theme. Gautama was only one of the 33 buddhas, the last one so far. His entire life he was preparing
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"having the appearance of control over an apparent illusion?" Just before Ninakawa passed away the Zen master Ikkyu visited him. “Shall I lead you on?” Ikkyu asked. Ninakawa replied: “I came here alone and I go alone. What help c
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I didn't describe people as retarded, but their work. Even very smart people often do dumb things.
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That's exactly what I'm writing about, progress. RISC-V is not an advancement. What is opposite of advancement? In a system, it's either regression or retardation. And expecting people outside of the Puritan U. S. to abide by
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I should hope it speaks of my expectations: can't run server workloads on it, worse to program for than OpenSPARC or M68000. I actually want a nice processor and server hardware to use it in to do work. RISC-V ISA and the hardware arou
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move dst, src, src -- I could stop right here, but wait, there is more! lui, auipc -- because two instructions are better than a simple move.b or move.w. Really, what nonsense. sx, ux - I'm speechless at that nonsense. bltu, bgeu -- be
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"Better to take something like RISC-V and come up with the first high performance design." The problem is that RISC-V mnemonics and programming model is so retarded (as compared to MC68000 or UltraSPARC) that one needs a compiler
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Then what's the point if I can't run AIX on it?!?
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Most people won't pay that kind of money just to tinker with it.
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"Talos™ II 2U Rack Mount Server TL2SV1 Talos™ II 2U Rack Mount Server Starting at $6,089.00" Not at $6,089.00; they can forget that. It has to cost no more than $500 USD or this will be a repeat of the same mistake Sun Microsyst
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They are misunderstanding why RISC-V and Raspberry Pi are popular: it's not so much that they're freeware but that they are cheap. Very few people in IT know how to implement processors in hardware even with an FPGA. What makes a
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Much has improved and illumos keeps getting better and faster: since 2005, no code which causes performance regressions was allowed into the Solaris codebase. Each speedup committed set the base higher. Nobody would be allowed to commit cod
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Applications on the Amiga all had different interfaces because intuition.library had infinite possibilities since it only implemented graphic primitives on top of graphics.library. I'm an Apple guy now but I will never get used to a on
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"I also wonder what people have moved to right now," macOS on various intel Apple systems, SmartOS on intel PC bucket, 19" rack mountable servers. There really isn't much of anything else out there affordable / main
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That's because the ZX Sinclair Spectrum's only claim to fame is the rock bottom cheap pricing: it did not have any revolutionary hardware or operating system like the Amiga. It couldn't do things competition wasn't capab
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For early '90's, there was nothing rough around the edges of AmigaOS 3.1. It was a fast, elegant and highly extensible operating system via DataTypes and shared libraries.
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Commodore was on the verge of bankruptcy, that's why, but the engineers designed the Amiga to be expandable so that people like you could do exactly what you have done: works as designed!
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I miss tools which don't implement other tools within them (like GNU grep -r does). I miss the fault management architecture. I miss ZFS without having to jump through all kinds of hoops to get / filesystem on it. I miss the no me
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The modern virus killer as you know it today on Microsoft®️ Windows™️ was invented on the Amiga. As was the modern computer virus, for that matter.
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"The happy ending for me was that Gnu/Linux and Free software nicely filled the void in my heart." How ironic, considering that exact same thing is the bane of my existence: for someone like me who skipped the primitive, clun
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I feel the exact same way (and even did the same things on the Amiga), except the breakage is taking place as I write this. For the last 30 years I lived on borrowed time provided by Sun and SGI.
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"I think that for many Amiga users, they've never gotten over their feelings of loss." That is correct and my pain born of that loss has increased over the years. First Sun and then SGI provided some alleviation but when they
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What was the deal with Sun Microsystems wanting to buy the Amiga?
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-print0 is a GNUism and isn't portable. As stated previously, replacing '{}' with "{}" will handle spaces and most metacharacters just fine.
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All you have to do is replace the single with double quotation marks and my commands will handle spaces just fine.
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"What now, are you claiming that's not "real fgrep"? GNU stands for GNU is not UNIX®️.
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You obviously haven't tried it on either of those. They are "second tier", which means one is completely on one's own. What in your opinion would have to be the size of the source code to warrant jumping through the hoop
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Real fgrep does not implement -r because that would be implementing tools within tools, which is against the UNIX®️ philosophy. Try /usr/bin/find . -depth -type f -print | /usr/bin/xargs -i /usr/bin&#

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