OCTAGRAM

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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
It was called CLX, forms were stored in *.xfm, and it was based on Qt
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Such recallings are incomplete without fake TUIs. TUI that are seemingly text, but in graphics mode. Norton Utilities were running in text mode with altered fonts and had nice UI elements. Acronis OS Selector 5 could run in multitude of dif
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
This was a nice trick to protect text from copying. For instance, student assignments. Students could still use digital camera on CRT display, but 20 years ago cameras were costly and students did not have them. And typing text from scratch
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
There is a love and hate relation from programmers who started from it. Hate goes from the fact different Pascals didn't manage to settle an agreement on standard. Well, there are ISO Standard Pascal and ISO Extended Pascal. But does T
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Each forum had flavor of BBCode. phpBB, IPB, vBulletin. That imposter markdown came out of nowhere
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
I have used patched version of muTorrent. Binary exe contains string private, and I changed it to crivate with hex editor, so that torrent client stops reacting to private flag and starts whistleblowing peers to DHT. I don't think that
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Mavericks forever
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Last time I saw them they were having alien input controls. I used to press M for portable Medkit. And J for Jetpack. And all keyboard is meaningful. Stand-alone gaming systems are having limited amount of buttons on their alien input contr
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
They have different definitions of failure. In Lean a failure is to calculate wrong thing. In SPARK a failure is to not calculate at all because of memory issue or something like this. As far as I've seen SPARK, it encourages ephemeral
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
We had plenty of enlightened network engineers, but eventually government wanted some torrents to stop working. Torrents were installing 6to4, Teredo and so on and hoping to work this way. But government agents were doing checks. Government
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Also self-hosted server helps. But the problem with them is lack of accessible management. Like, so I can tell grandfather: if you want to be mobile and powerful, go buy this one precise box, match mobile with box and install programs from
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Just say the magic words: Mavericks forever! And Apple's recent actions in the US are not of much concern anymore
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
There was GMANE to convert mailing list into NNTP archive. I was big fan of it. Too bad it's gone
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Mbox is not that easy to process, especially if 1986 time span is taken into account. There is base64 encoding. There is "=" encoding, don't recall whats its name. "Equals" encoding. There are several character enc
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
ITX-Llama and its clone called Pixel x86 are new, not noisy. Based on modern Vortex86 CPU that has real functioning ISA DMA bus, something ceased to exist in 2000 in other conventional CPUs and motherboards
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
I yet to see any modern terminal with bells and whistles like in Acronis OS Selector 5
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Programming Commander Keen was dramatic. Keen Dreams source code is now open
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
I would look for MiSTer FPGA PC-XT core
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Hacking into some platform makes very tied to it. I still recall how to program smooth scrolling in EGA/VGA. It becomes an explored world, and is ARM good for being tied to? ARM has an ongoing problem of being proprietary, and RISC-V i
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
As a desktop candidate role I would say that there is a pain of bones broken in the past. I have System Shock (1) for DOS and for MacOS. DOS version was playable in NTVDM for long, especially in 32-bit XP with VDMSound. MacOS version was, t
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Computer-is-in-keyboard is a good idea if keyboard is right. But this all-white dull stuff is no match for IBM Model M style of contrast keyboards full of sense. SUBOR SB97 is what I think of as good computer-is-in-keyboard looks. They just
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Apollo A6000
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
SUBOR SB97 looks fantastic because it clones IBM Model M. Most keys are white, but Esc is grey, and and F5-F8 are grey. And arrows are grey. And some other keys are grey. Keyboard is contrast, alive, full of sense. All such conventions that
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
ITX-Llama is good for young kids to learn computer, programming, etc. My first mathematical application was MathCAD 6 on Windows 3.1 with Win32s add-on, and that worked fine for me, and can work fine for young kids. My most used programming
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Will they introduce Ada and announce that it will become mandatory
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Eiffel has unsolicited tracing garbage collection. For TGC-free programming there is Ada
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
In Russia we had Subor, LIKO and Magistr. Magistr also did 16-bit SEGA with keyboard, and this is unique. SEGA had no 16-bit original hardware with keyboards. SEGA only had 8-bit keyboard and then 32-bit Dreamcast.
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
Seed7 uses UTF-32. Ada standard library has got UTF-32 for I/O data and file names. Ada is such a language where almost nothing disappears in standard library, so 8-bit and UTF-16 I/O and/or file names are all still there.
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
> The first code point is zero, in Unicode jargon U+0000. In human-readable text it has no meaning, but it will interfere with the operation of certain programming languages. This part encourages more active usage of U+0000, so that prog
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by OCTAGRAM 1y ago
The most advanced usage of XSLT I've seen was in YBlog2, YML and YSLT, an alternative syntax for XML and XSLT. And IIUC they did not rely on browser-side although that may be still possible.

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