Taniwha

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601.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I'd include the PDP-8 and successors/cloners like the DG NOVA
602.
by Taniwha 4y ago
yeah, came here for the LOX spilled on tarmac stories ....
603.
by Taniwha 4y ago
You know you don't have to look at all of it ...
604.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Remember that making optical copies of other people's chips was legal (and not uncommon) in the US up until the 1984 Semiconductor Chip Protection Act was passed.
605.
by Taniwha 4y ago
It's not just trailing digits, if you don't have a call button (like a traditional home phone, push button, or rotary) you need to know when the dialing has finished so that you can make the cell call
606.
by Taniwha 4y ago
That is true in some parts of some countries
607.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Yup all those beaches you all love - they're ALL going to go away - wont come back for a few lifetimes
608.
by Taniwha 4y ago
"Not your computer? Use a Private Window to sign in." Really needs a ! rather than a ?
609.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Maybe they could just release the prints ....
610.
by Taniwha 4y ago
The big difference of course is tooling (CAD tooling) ten years after that I was knocking out that many timed gates a year myself, 5 years later, maybe 5 times more again - that world has changed a lot from the 6502 which was done with lith
611.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Unix of the day was not "free" you could get free access at a Uni, but outside of there you had to pay AT&T, who frankly didn't really understand what they had (which is why we now have Linux)
612.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Oh I completely agree - but I also remember putting a graphical header on the first page of the output from the print symbiont (aka daemon, essentially CUPS), I had to type in pages of assembler from microfiche
613.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Yeah but he was around while we were working on A/UX, I remember visiting Apple and people hiding from him (or rather keeping their heads and voices down in a cube farm when he passed by "shhh Steve's coming")
614.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Yeah my impression of Apple at the time was that they leaked like a sieve - yet at the same time Steve was a petty tyrant who would jump on anyone who was caught. I worked on A/UX at UniSoft, we got half of the first dev run of MacII b
615.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Unix is/was a lot of things, it was developing at a much faster rate than VMS - was VMS better than V6/V7 certainly (I ported V6/V7 so that the kernel ran in VMS sup/user mode in place of DCL), better than V.2 (the VM su
616.
by Taniwha 4y ago
The thing is that Unix(of the day)'s source wasn't full of 100s of pages of vax assembly code .... so it was portable - just a page or two of assembly. Also prior to that OSs were proprietary - if you didn't work for a hardwa
617.
by Taniwha 4y ago
not necessarily, even if was freed there might be defragged free blocks that still contain heap metadata by the time it gets reallocated
618.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I'm not sure how useful I could be (it was more than 30 years ago) - remember that while I designed the accelerator these boards were made by a team of smart people, wasn't just me
619.
by Taniwha 4y ago
well this was 1989 ..... as I said prior to this state of the are was fast vectors for CAD, and before any of that we didn't have many per-pixel framebuffers (memory was so expensive so you got stuff like CGA/etc or plain ttys)
620.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Nothing in particular - VRAM was the core of all the cards thise days, the serial port shift register (inside the VRAM) fed muxes that in turn fed luts and out to the display. The VRAM array was 2 sets of 96 bits wide - the accelerator was
621.
by Taniwha 4y ago
yup 1152x870 - essentially the largest number that is roughly a 4:3 aspect ratio and less than 1 megapixel (2^20 VRAM was so very expensive) (and meets a bunch of other limitations like video dot clocks, VRAM clock rates, must be a multipl
622.
by Taniwha 4y ago
SuperMac - the first one was the "SuperMac Spectrum/24 series III", I can't remember the name of the big FPGA thing I built the accelerator on the last project (that 200 pin chip - look for a chip SQD-01 aka 'SQuiD&
623.
by Taniwha 4y ago
This is not a new problem, back in the late 80s I worked for a Mac graphics card developer ... We made some of the first 24bit accelerated graphics cards. Our first was just an existing card with a small daughter card with pals an sram on i
624.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Possibly but there's the potential reverse problems where Apple programs start depending on newly allocated memory being zero .... and those programs start failing elsewhere ...
625.
by Taniwha 4y ago
yes - then it wont be ice any more - but while there's still ice the temp of the liquid will stay at the equilibrium point - after that it will start to warm
626.
by Taniwha 4y ago
That's why I said it was "part of the issue" - but once the salt has dissolved the system is kept at -5 for a period of time because inside of the ice cubes are < 5C
627.
by Taniwha 4y ago
That's true of the surface of the ice, but the core is colder
628.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Surely part of the issue is that the ice at < 0C while the liquid portion is at 0C (because of the equilibrium thing) - but it's the liquid portion, not the ice, that's most physically connected to the inner container you'
629.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Yeah in Māori - kākā, kāka, kakā, and kaka are all different words
630.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Remember that Sun made lots and lots of 68k based systems before they built their own chips

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