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by ch_123 9y ago
Excited about RISC-V hardware hitting the market, less excited that it's $999. I mean, I get that it's not going to be as cheap as a Raspi, and I'd happily pay $200-300 for something like this. However, at $999, I think I&#x2
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OpenVMS: The First 40 Years [pdf](vmsconsultancy.com)
3 points by ch_123 9y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 9y ago
Based on some of the prior documents, I believe they are: MACRO-32 (The compiler for VAX assembly), C++, Ada MACRO-32 works at a lower level than the other languages, and needs to generate assembly directly instead of an IR. The C++ compile
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Pharo 6.0 Released(pharo.org)
118 points by ch_123 9y ago|81 comments
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by ch_123 9y ago
Based on the front-end of a mature, commercial Fortran compiler, see - https://developer.arm.com/-/media/developer/developers/hpc/f... I know quite a few Fortran programmers, most of whom will avoid
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by ch_123 9y ago
Judging by the copyright notices in the files, this is probably the PGI-Fortran-on-LLVM compiler that was announced a year or two ago - https://www.llnl.gov/news/nnsa-national-labs-team-nvidia-dev... EDIT: Confirmed -
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by ch_123 9y ago
The eComStation site lists some orgs who are using it - http://ecomstation.com/
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ArcaOS 5.0 now available: new OS/2 distribution(arcanoae.com)
94 points by ch_123 9y ago|33 comments
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by ch_123 9y ago
1995 ;)
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by ch_123 9y ago
The government has even expressed an intent to get rid of the law - http://www.merrionstreet.ie/MerrionStreet/en/ImageLibrary/Pr... It's still pretty embarrassing that this sort of thing can happen. I ho
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by ch_123 10y ago
Fork was implemented in the NT kernel for WSL - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/05/23/pico-process...
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by ch_123 10y ago
FWIW - On the last Thinkpad I bought (the X220) the touchpad was notably worse under than Windows with the official vendor drivers compared with Linux using whatever came out of the box. Two finger scrolling comes to mind - on Linux it work
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by ch_123 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software)
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by ch_123 10y ago
Am I going crazy, or is this the third time I've seen this posted over the past few days? No, apparently not... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1285353
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by ch_123 10y ago
> probably for a developer the touch bar is better. Each to their own, I guess?
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by ch_123 10y ago
They were bought by ZF a few years back
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by ch_123 10y ago
> I never heard someone building an image for a mac for example. This happens where I work. Amongst other things it: 1) Set the hostname of the machine. 2) At one point, changed the timezone to one of the US offices (I work in Europe). 3
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by ch_123 10y ago
Yes, see the appendices of http://h41361.www4.hpe.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40F_... The original VMS C compiler targeted a pre-ANSI "VAX C" dialect which had further differences. DEC C replac
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by ch_123 10y ago
That would be MACRO-32, the VAX assembler/assembly language dialect. As a considerable part of the VMS kernel is written in VAX assembly, they treat it as a high level language and compile it to Alpha, IA64 and now x86-64. Other parts
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by ch_123 10y ago
Eiffel too IIRC (same family I suppose)
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by ch_123 10y ago
Isn't Angular a Google project? Shouldn't at least some of those commits be counted as some of Google's?
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by ch_123 10y ago
> Ugh, The name reminds me of Tru64 from DEC in the 90s.. So I wasn't the only one!
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by ch_123 10y ago
Ah, so that's why it loaded on my iPhone without any warning! (Firefox/Chrome caught the incorrect configuration)
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by ch_123 10y ago
The BASIC-only machines have far less symbols on the keyboard. Compare the one in that picture with the one in the wiki article (which is BASIC only)
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Pharo 5.0 Released(pharo.org)
128 points by ch_123 10y ago|50 comments
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by ch_123 11y ago
Before leaving for MS, Cutler worked on an OS codenamed "Mica" which ran on top of an architecture named PRISM (which was a predecessor to the Alpha). The idea behind Mica was that it was a microkernel which hosted VMS and Unix pe
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by ch_123 11y ago
Groupon uses FreeBSD for databases internally - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQx_dJIG-sg
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by ch_123 11y ago
I seem to recall reading somewhere (I can't recall where unfortunately) that Ken Olsen was averse to letting people go, and when DEC was forced to downsize in the 90s, the redundancy packages were so generous that it cost the company m
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NNSA, national labs team with Nvidia to develop open-source Fortran compiler(llnl.gov)
2 points by ch_123 11y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 11y ago
Seems to have been formed from ex-eComStation people (see https://www.arcanoae.com/about/ ). I wonder if they have to start from scratch with whatever enhancements were added to eCS, or if they are able to access the eC

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