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by aap_ 8y ago
I'm using tmux myself for persistent shells on remote machines (mostly irc), but not much otherwise. Lots of people and guides make it sound like it's also very useful when you're working locally. Can someone enlighten me wha
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by aap_ 8y ago
I'm pretty sure they do. I saw it in person earlier this year and there was a knob that controlled the execution speed.
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by aap_ 8y ago
For those who don't know, that system is still alive: https://www.unisys.com/offerings/clearpath-forward/clearpath...
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by aap_ 8y ago
Agreed, Hutton's book is really cool. I found LYAH just boring.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Interestingly, LISP for the PDP-6 was begin written while the machine was still being built.
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by aap_ 8y ago
I wrote a compiler for B some years ago. The code generation is horrible but it was a fun project: https://github.com/aap/abc/ Still mean to port that to the PDP-10 eventually.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Author here. AMA!
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by aap_ 8y ago
I'm still wondering whether the amd64 port of OpenVMS will kill amd64 like it killed every other platform it ever ran on.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Quote from doug: > And finally, having followed the development of C++ from its infancy, I wanted to try out its new template facility, so there's a bit of that in the package, too. Arnold has discovered that not only has C++ evolve
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by aap_ 8y ago
This is a very nice specimen of the clear and easy to read code that is so typical of room 1127. A great example to follow.
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by aap_ 8y ago
You can still share the source code. Just requires some assembly then.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Indeed. Software emulation is fun and all but real hardware works differently.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Why was this flagged? I think it was a rather interesting read.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Old High German is not the ancestor of English. Some kind of West Germanic might be called a common ancestor of both English and German.
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by aap_ 8y ago
Alpha is certainly not big endian. And MIPS today is probably little endian more frequently than big endian.
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by aap_ 8y ago
It's all white and light grey, very hard to see anything :/
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by aap_ 9y ago
= is used for assignment in PL/1, a language ken and dmr were very familiar with due to their work on Multics.
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by aap_ 9y ago
You want PL/1
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by aap_ 9y ago
On an ASR33 = is the character you have press shift for. : is unshifted.
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by aap_ 9y ago
> Maurice Wilkes first conceived of microprogramming in 1951 Zuse's Z1 was microprogrammed in 1937.
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by aap_ 9y ago
I have Windows 2000 RC2 running on an Alpha :) It's really neat, you can even execute x86 programs.
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by aap_ 9y ago
Not liking being told what not to do does not imply that you want to actually do it though. Maybe I don't want to leave the house today, but that doesn't mean I will accept being locked up.
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by aap_ 9y ago
But do people actually do that? I have not seen anything like that in technical internet communities.
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by aap_ 9y ago
This makes me sad. Do people really need to be told what not to do and say like that? To me it feels insulting that I am not trusted to be nice to others.
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by aap_ 9y ago
Now nice that he linked to my simh installation instructions :) The best way to use ancient UNIX is to tell your terminal emulator backspace is BS and delete is DEL, then just use stty (you don't have to use caret notation btw, a liter
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by aap_ 9y ago
Why don't you read the linked text to learn that you're wrong? There is no address register and no decrement register on the IBM 704, and no instructions CAR and CDR either. An instruction had an address part and a decrement pa
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by aap_ 9y ago
It probably would have been a good idea to use plan 9 troff for this. It's a descendant of the original troff while groff is a reimplementation...and I have noticed the output of groff looks a bit different.
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by aap_ 9y ago
See this: http://9p.io/who/dmr/odd.html The crucial thing to note here is that the second comment (the famous one) has nothing to do with the text above about the savu. So we don't even understand 'You&#
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by aap_ 9y ago
I thought they meant that they would ask you to fix their computer.
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by aap_ 9y ago
Very nice. I got see two of these machines as well recently. The memory is indeed quite fascinating. And I totally understand and share that guy's fascination with bringing back things from the past.

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