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IBM names managed services spin-off Kyndryl(zdnet.com)
3 points by ch_123 6y ago|1 comments
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VSI OpenVMS v8.4-2L3 Released(vmssoftware.com)
2 points by ch_123 6y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 6y ago
There's two separate programs under VMS: MACRO32 is a VAX assembly compiler - given a VAX assembly source listing, it can turn it into object code for Alpha, IA64 or x86. In some cases, the code will need special annotations. There&#x2
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by ch_123 6y ago
What you are saying is true, but it's also worth keeping in mind that the 8086 was already three years old by the time the first IBM showed up, and the 286 was launched only a few months after the IBM PC. That was part of the reason wh
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by ch_123 6y ago
Knowing how to look up information, distinguish good information from bad information, and then apply it to the particular problems you are trying to solve is a very valuable skill within of itself, one which a surprisingly small number of
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by ch_123 6y ago
A lot of politics go into deciding what gets adopted, which leads to some very questionable aircraft getting adopted in large numbers. The F-104 was effectively forced onto a lot of European countries (particularly Germany) and mostly succe
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by ch_123 6y ago
This is absolutely correct - Fortran standards after 90/95 have mostly added extra features, rather than fundamental changes to how people write Fortran. Fortran 2003 added OO support, but I don’t believe that has seen widespread adopt
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by ch_123 6y ago
> How is Fortran coming along with GPUs? (last I looked it was being done with proprietary compiler language extensions, but that was a while ago) There is support for CUDA in Fortran. In fact, Nvidia purchased one of the main Fortran co
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by ch_123 6y ago
Given Microsoft's ownership of Github, I suspect it's inevitable. If anything, I'm surprised that it hasn't already happened.
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Arduino IDE 2.0 beta released with live debugger, revamped user interface(cnx-software.com)
3 points by ch_123 6y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 6y ago
> "Lovecraftian hieroglyphics of Fortran" <-- the author never programmed in Perl, I presume. Or in Fortran, it's a relatively verbose language from what I remember of it (that said, I learned Fortran 90/95, so may
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by ch_123 6y ago
Quite likely a radiation hardened variant, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750 The CPUs used in space applications typically lag ~20 years behind the consumer market due to the need to be very sure that the ki
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by ch_123 6y ago
> IBM calls this "microcode", but it's unclear if this is microcode in the usual sense or just firmware instructions. IBM had all sorts of unconventional usages of the word "microcode", e.g. parts of the OS/
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by ch_123 6y ago
As an Irish person who does not agree with the views of the Catholic Church, I think this is an incredibly stupid thing for Twitter to do. The post very clearly is not advocating self harm, and censoring these viewpoints serves only to galv
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by ch_123 6y ago
Judging by the name of this site, and other articles on it, I'm guessing that _maybe_ this author works in banking or finance, and that this may be a major factor in why they do not like their job. Regarding the need to keep learning -
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by ch_123 6y ago
> Did the hobbyist licensing [1] get resolved? I was inspired by the work of Andrew Back [2] getting VMS clusters working on Raspberry Pis. Not sure which issue you are referring to specifically, but VSI provides hobbyist licenses for Al
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by ch_123 6y ago
The current x86 releases are in a rather raw state, e.g. you still have to cross compile x86 on an Itanium system. Based on some claims I have seen elsewhere, they plan to release the V9.1 to non-commercial customers, which is meant to happ
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by ch_123 6y ago
"- The CPU in the node isn't important. The binary format for IBM mainframes is a virtual machine language and has to be just in time compiled on the node where it will run if a binary wasn't already cached from earlier trans
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PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1(devblogs.microsoft.com)
12 points by ch_123 6y ago|1 comments
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by ch_123 6y ago
I think this should serve as an important lesson for open source projects. Hopefully it will be a case of once bitten, twice shy for the community
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by ch_123 6y ago
info-vax/comp.os.vms is still alive and active: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms
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by ch_123 6y ago
The iMac is a desktop
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by ch_123 6y ago
> It's closer to your neighbour selling you the rights to park in their garden, then you selling those rights to someone else. Far from a criminal, arrestable offence, so their point on the broad-brush of being "illegal" s
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by ch_123 6y ago
You're attacking a strawman here. The issue was that he was making a profit by reselling tickets, not by automating filling forms in a website. The mechanism is not particularly relevant. By analogy, it is legal to park my car in my ow
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by ch_123 6y ago
The headline has been editorialized. While I don't agree with what the authorities did here, and believe the developer was acting in good faith, the developer created an app for buying railway tickets which charged a small fee for the
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by ch_123 6y ago
It happened repeatedly on my system, which runs Fedora 33 and has a 3950X CPU. Not sure what other variables may be at play here.
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by ch_123 6y ago
Tried following this guide, and ended up with I/O failure during the installation. Replacing the emulated IDE controller with a SCSI one solved the problem. I got some non-fatal errors during installation, but the OS installed successf
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by ch_123 6y ago
Buying an old copy of Windows NT/2000/XP costs next to nothing on eBay, and you can be guaranteed that you get the platform that your legacy software was targeted for, and not a clone.
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by ch_123 6y ago
> His points were that the Open-Closed principle isn’t very important anymore because most of the code we write isn’t contained in large monoliths and making changes to small microservices is safe and easy. IMHO, Open-Closed applies just
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by ch_123 6y ago
Wrote my Bachelors dissertation in LyX, and my Masters thesis in LaTeX with vim. In my experience, while LyX has a lower learning curve, it could be difficult to make it behave in exactly the way I wanted, and once I put in the effort to le

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