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"Clojure is a functional programming language, that runs on JVM" ...which means that the party is over: anything that I cannot permanently compile into straight machine code and generate a binary executable will have a double perf
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That's exactly right.
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It doesn't simulate anything.
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No, a simulation has to actually run. This is just a cheap gimmick.
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C: is the equivalent of /bin and /sbin, it's an assign , not a drive! AmigaOS isn't Windows!!!
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It is decidedly not a simulator; just a pile of carefully crafted CSS, HTML and JavaScript to make it look like a working system.
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That's an elaborate gimmick: 1. double-click "System"; 2. double-click "Shell"; 3. type in "C:" and press [RETURN]. And the gimmick falls apart, revealed for what it truly is. For bonus points, open "
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"I miss the instant-on, straight-to-REPL, ~1 second reset features of my old Commodore 128." As a C=128D owner, I hear you loud and clear. It's a slap to the contemporary programmers' faces that a 1 MHz MOS 6510 based sy
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I'm not missing the point. I want lightning fast response from software to my actions. If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's when the input loop loses events, which happens very often on Windows and my Linux powered TV. I wan
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"3. States" Solaris 10 (and now by heritage illumos) has had this with beadm(1M) since ten years ago, if not longer.
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AmigaOS can, and yes it's still being developed.
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"However, at this time, does OS responsiveness matter?" It always matters; I don't want to waste my life away in front of someone's irresponsive, laggy, slow software.
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With this font, you can use say OpenOffice to create the same kind of art while not needing the original systems and tools.
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Google has been the equivalent of an IT Gulag for a long time. I always pitied the poor souls working there thinking they've racked up some sort of prestige. Not worth the 7000 days in Siberia.
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"Many believe that it’s complex and outdated. Programming in Fortran is perceived like riding a horse-driven carriage to work. Fortran?" That's incredibly ignorant, and shows very clearly how much we suck ass as an industry,
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Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zürich, one of the top ten computer science universities in the world, home of Pascal, Modula and Oberon programming languages and a major research powerhouse. Always makes me smile when someone re-disco
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One doesn't really create anything, programming is nothing but snake oil sales: in the end the only creation is magnetized media. So: "fog selling", or: "selling testicles as if they were kidneys". It took me a long
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That was one thing which was positive: no software copyrights.
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Eh, more Kubernetes hype, because there isn't enough of it already. I'm not doing that. To state that the OS, the very piece which is responsible for providing data integrity and which makes the hardware actually do useful things
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But it's not coherent, far from it: it is often broken by various parties involved because there is no architecture and there are heterogenous interests at play. Compared to a FreeBSD or a SmartOS system, architecturally, it barely wor
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Here is something to consider: how did your employer get to tens of thousands of Linux servers from whatever they were running on before? And: do you really want to spend the rest of your professional career wrangling with a shoddy product,
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What good are these without readily available, cheap 1U, 19" rack-mountable servers?
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One can render ASCII art or even "poor man's graphics" in any text editor regardless of their age. Yes it's dated, but if one is working anywhere near physical equipmet like terminal concentrators hooked up to servers&#x
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AWK: lighweight, fast, versatile, incredibly powerful programming language.
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But AFAICT the glibc dogma is based on the premise that it would be impossible for a large, complex project to have backward compatibility without making regular changes to the extant interfaces that it provides. Yeah well tell that to th
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If the terms "PETSCII", "Amiga ASCII" and "ANSI art" do not mean anything to you, then this font and what can be rendered with it will be completely meaningless to you and you will be confused like you are. You
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z!OMG it supports Amiga ASCII and C= PETSCII!1!11!!, instead of being yet another PC-tin-bucket-MS-DOS-only font. Now we can enjoy all that wonderful Amiga Type ASCII art in front of Skid Row cracked games! Well done! Well done! (Loading S
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"For a driver, there would be problems getting it to run correctly in 2004 already," This is unthinkable on Solaris / illumos kernels because of DDI / DDK interfaces: I can take a driver from 1993 for Solaris 2.5.1 and m
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Avoid dangerous IFs and use Objects First of all, object-oriented programming is impractical because it creates a state machine which is difficult to follow and therefore a nightmare to debug, even with source code. Second, avoiding if st
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Curiously, neither of these is listed: https://illumos.org/books/wdd/eqbqn.html https://www.amazon.com/Solaris-Internals-OpenSolaris-Archite...

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