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by JdeBP 1y ago
Other way around. The processors came up in unreal mode, and it is only comparatively recently that the firmwares have had the possibility of not needing to do the whole "compatibility support" thing and just going straight fro
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by JdeBP 1y ago
As someone who had to ensure the "Operating System Wars", I can attest that it's likely not a joke, especially given the other writings on the same site. It is, alas, more of what we saw a lot of during that time, which wa
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It doesn't represent us who were around in that old time. Do not make the mistake of thinking that this represents mainstream thought either from when it was written or of the time that it is harking back to. As pointed out at https:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Don't forget that "BIOS" has another meaning in MS-DOS. BIOS and BDOS, remember.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There was lots of uninformed, false equivalence, rubbish like this put about during the time of the "Operating System Wars" in the 1990s. I saw lots of it go by. This is just more utter rubbish in the same vein, to be blunt. Fr
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Amusingly for this stereotyping, the demonstrator that they have constructed has a Burger King a short walk to the south and two Chinese restaurants and one Indian a short walk to the north. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Yes and no. Yes, this is smaller than the double-deckers in Coventry, that you can even do an eyeball comparison with if you watch the ironic publicity video mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217231 and ke
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Addendum: If you watch the latest news video and ignore the local politician trying to sell the scheme in the foreground, in the background you can see the actual public transport services in Coventry, the double-decker buses that run al
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's not smaller than most of the buses that run in the existing Stagecoach and National Express fleets that go around and to and from Coventry, which seat approximately 30 people on a single-decker with standing room for about 10 more
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by JdeBP 1y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217164 . Coventry actually does , right now, run quite an extensive network of electric regular buses, not only out of Pool Meadow but also the ones that circle the Trinity Stree
701.
by JdeBP 1y ago
In many non-North American cities one needs tiny. Big stuff just does not fit.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Since there are going to be a lot of people who don't even know England, let alone Coventry: Coventry is, like many cities in the U.K., burdened with road systems that in some places go back to mediæval times. Yes, the Nazis did famou
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This article from 2023 is woefully out of date, it turns out.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Never attribute to some deeply sophisticated planned ahead engineering, that which can be satisfactorily explained by the fact that it's a lot easier to serialize and deserialize a System.Version in an HTTP body, in a universal fashion
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Has no-one figured this out in three years? It's not telemetry. You just have to look at the junk that gets put in that huge banner across the top of the system settings to figure out what this is. It's not reporting you to Micr
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This is United Statians being the victims of their own crazy date writing style again. (-: Michael Horowitz did this on 2021-10-22, and it returned the value 2021.1019.1.0. Today, on 2025-06-07, it is publishing the value 2025.424.19.0. W
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by JdeBP 1y ago
One doesn't explain a present day claim in the past tense. (-: In the days of the BBS boom, our cables had all of the wires, our modems did all of the signals and had lights for them on their front panels, and our operating systems ei
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This particular resource limit stuff was not in "primitive Unix". It was a novelty that came with 4.2BSD.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The name for the principle that you are roughly adhering to is Chesterton's Fence.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
> Another useful command to check for open file descriptors is lsof, ... but the one that comes with the operating system, on the BSDs, is fstat(1). > 10u: Another file descriptor [...] likely used for additional terminal interactions
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This of course begs the question of who the rascal was that then put the -y option into fsck. (-:
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'I happened to be sitting next to Bill Joy at UCB when he wrote the first "yes"'(github.com)
5 points by JdeBP 1y ago|1 comments
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A critical look at OpenBSD's installer(eerielinux.wordpress.com)
9 points by JdeBP 1y ago|5 comments
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by JdeBP 1y ago
A few thoughts: We seem to have gone backwards in our expectations of serial port speeds. At the height of the BBS boom, 14400 BPS was widespread, and high end modems were capable of 57600 BPS. (Yes, FOSSIL existed; and not all of us even
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This is the same question as: Why does changing the number of items to zero in an item line in an order on one's on-line shopping cart delete the entire item line? And the answer lies in the same user expectations from collective expe
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Many years ago, before it was dropped, IP version 6 had a concept of "site local" addresses, which (if it had applied to version 4) would have encompassed the corporate intranet addresses that you are talking about. Routed within
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by JdeBP 1y ago
For completeness, as I pointed out on the FediVerse: The article has things backwards when it comes to partition table schemes. It's the older firmwares that place the requirement on what partitioning scheme is used; not the newer
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Really? Is that actually really true that they cannot get past the spec? Because I followed the Wikipedia article to the article on The Register . Whoever wrote Wikipedia summarized El Reg 's entire article as how gemini has been c
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Don't be too envious. Linux kernel virtual terminals have "vcsa" devices that one can read for this sort of thing. And it's right there in the manual page how one does this. * https://man7.org/linux&#x2
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I've had the classic Unix experience. It's not something that a typical user of the 21st century would either want or enjoy. There was everything from modem line noise to whether it was BS or DEL this week that actually erased a

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