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by JdeBP 1y ago
An interesting observation. It prompts the thought of how far away this simulator is from an actual ZX81, and how much it has been pulled away from a ZX81 by dint of training data where simulated retrocomputers of other types all boot into
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by JdeBP 1y ago
As noted elsethread, there were no "legacy" (an abuse of that word) MS-DOS applications when the 80286 was designed. Intel wasn't really "doing an Apple". At the time most people were expecting 80286es to become
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In case anyone wants to dispute VagabundoP's chronology: The Internet was invented in 1973 and testing began of the new protocols in 1975. Teletext, in the form of Ceefax, was pioneered by the BBC in 1972. So yes, Teletext was indeed p
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Adventures with mtree (2022)(jashankj.space)
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Outwith the world where only Debian and other Linux distributions exist, though, this isn't really systemd doing bad things to poor old Debian. To a wider world it is Debian and other Linux distributions exceedingly slowly reinventi
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Watching the retrocomputing enthusiasts, apart from obvious things like water damage, it seems that the first thing that one always has to check before attempting to power up is capacitors. A generalism true for all old electronics, rather
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I think that superkuh's point is that it is not a systemd thing. Cleaning up /tmp by deleting old files has been around since before systemd was invented. Since before Linux was invented, even.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I can credit you, in version 1.42, with more than a hyperlink to random posts on Hacker News if you have something better elsewhere on the WWW. (-: * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/services/system
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Very well, because OS/2 1.x introduced, for the first time in Microsoft's MS-DOS lineage, a fully-fledged VIO subsystem that abstracted TUI applications programming wholly away from touching the hardware. (GUI applications progra
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The Windows as a porting layer story is a whole subject in its own right. But the WINAPI macro was a porting thing. But this is an example on this very page of the telephone-game problem that happened during the Operating System Wars, wher
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I have not read someone talking of quiche eaters in some years. Thank you for keeping the joke alive. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You actually mis-remember. One of the things that was a perpetual telephone-game distortion during the Operating System Wars was people talking about a single input queue. Presentation Manager did not have a single input queue. Every PM
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by JdeBP 1y ago
We've all done it. (-: For some while I read people saying that, despite the existence of Paul Jarc showing how svscan as process 1 would actually work and Gerrit Pape leading the way with runit-init and demonstrating the basic idea,
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There was an awful lot of nonsense put about during the Operating System Wars, a lot of it by people who had not the first bloody clue about operating systems at all. Sometimes it was a very clueless manifestation of the telephone game effe
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by JdeBP 1y ago
That's the wrong solution to the problem, as it means learning a second kernel and all of its stuff and making compatibility shims, whilst still facing the real problem that is not software at all. The right solution is actually ex
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Given that the author mentions CSV and text table formats, the article's list of the "entire Unix toolchain" is significantly impoverished not only by the lack of ex (which is usefully scriptable) but by the lack of mlr. * h
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by JdeBP 1y ago
A lot of JSON in a big file. * https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/ You'll enjoy the bit about the umask. Yes, this is short on details of where all of the privileged and secret stuff lives.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
LLM dren also isn't going to provide anything on how wildly different the home computer revolution would have been with twice as big character ROMs; the personal computer revolution would have been with twice as big code pages 437, 850
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Contrasting this with what this WWW page claims to be Iniquity 2.0, there's apparently a whole confusing history, with a 27 year gap, here. * https://iq.throwbackbbs.com/doku.php?id=start
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by JdeBP 1y ago
As discussed at length on this page at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808807 .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Interestingly, for it being built as part of the promotional effort for the authors's LLM-based WordPress WWW-site generator that autocreates (in their promotional blurb's own words) thousands of topic pages instantly for search-e
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Now its own Hacker News submission, with many concluding that it is entirely LLM-generated content and thus highly suspect for any kind of accuracy at all. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789192
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Using the IP address is a tricky one for something that is supposed to be Internet facing in the 2020s. In the modern world, one common probe performed by attackers is to see whether a site responds with its own IP address in the Host: head
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In theory, yes, although there are some fairly big stones falling in the avalanche of turning off HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 at the server end. In practice, it's going to be tricky to know without measurement; and the shifting of
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by JdeBP 1y ago
These are pretty much staples for any synthesizer music collection that ever was. There's going to be an Axel F in there somewhere, too. And possibly Chariots of Fire . I was amused that Crockett's Theme was the very first
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Competing with sdf.org, eh? (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
One of the more prominent uses of Slurm to hit the headlines recently is by the data access centres for the LSST data from the Vera Rubin Observatory. Such as the U.S.A. facility in Stanford and the U.K. facility at the University of Edinb
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's a whole YouTube genre. Witness this chiptune version of Howard Carter's Stand-up Maths Theme : * https://youtube.com/watch?v=PHiJpwrLCUA
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by JdeBP 1y ago
More than 25 years. The first thing that it played to me was Crockett's Theme . I spent the first few seconds looking at the description, which said something else, and saying to myself "No, that's definitely Crockett'
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's colour; but also takes an external VGA monitor rather than having its own. * https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT525

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