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by ch_123 7mo ago
It's definitely true that they do not have access to the original OS/2 source - this has been confirmed by people from Arca Noae in various interviews/presentations I've seen. I've never heard a definitive explanati
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by ch_123 7mo ago
There are roughly three categories: 1) There's a bunch of commercial software which only runs on OS/2. A lot of it was vertically integrated software either developed for a specific customer by IBM, or developed in an "IBM sh
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by ch_123 7mo ago
> So to me it seems that we don't want abstractions when trying to study certain things about a whole system. Instead, we want to view all of its components and then build our understanding from there. Abstractions hide the things t
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by ch_123 7mo ago
I feel like it's far easier to find more zealously anti-Rust people than zealously pro-Rust people - hating Rust has almost turned into a meme.
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by ch_123 8mo ago
> After spending time on Apple’s M1/M2 Macs (coming from a large x86_64 desktop), going back to x86_64 feels like a regression, both in performance and battery life. I have a Thinkpad X1 with a Lunar Lake CPU, running Fedora. Batter
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by ch_123 8mo ago
The VT1xx keyboards used linear switches, you may want to look at modern mechanical keyboards with linear switches as a rough approximation. Having tried typing on one in a museum, I recall the VT1xx as relatively scratchy compared with mor
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by ch_123 8mo ago
Converting these keyboards to speak to a modern PC involves replacing the controller board with a new one with open source firmware. You can program the keys to send any scan code you like.
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by ch_123 8mo ago
Because of cost - particularly given the current state of the RAM market. In order to have so much memory that you never hit memory spikes, you will deliberately need to buy RAM to never be used. Note that simply buying more RAM than what y
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by ch_123 8mo ago
You're implying that people are telling you to set up swap without any reason, when in fact there are good reasons - namely dealing with memory pressure. Maybe you could fit so much RAM into your computer that you never hit pressure -
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by ch_123 8mo ago
I've heard "square root of physical memory" as a heuristic, although in practice I use less than this with some of my larger systems.
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by ch_123 8mo ago
I think it's some kind of misplaced desire to be "lightweight" and avoid allocating disk space that cannot be used for regular storage. My motivation way back when for wanting to avoid swap was due to concerns about SSD wear
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by ch_123 8mo ago
I ran Linux without swap for some years on a laptop with a large-for-the-time amount of RAM (about 8GB). It _mostly_ worked, but sudden spikes of memory usage would render the system unresponsive. Usually it would recover, but it in some c
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by ch_123 8mo ago
They've been trying for nearly 30 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740
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by ch_123 8mo ago
Some folks have had success running it on certain server hardware (Usually HPE Proliant). There are no graphics drivers for x86, so it is X forwarding only.
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by ch_123 9mo ago
> SP2 came out it was hated again with renewed vigor Was it? My memory is that SP2 was the point at which most outlets considered to be "good".
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by ch_123 9mo ago
> What "modern software support" do I lack here? There is a growing list of software that which has discontinued support for Windows 10 on the latest versions (or the Server versions thereof). I'm not sure if your example
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by ch_123 9mo ago
That's an interesting data point. I wonder if there is a hard technical reason why that logic could not be added to WINE, or if the WINE maintainers made a decision not to implement similar functionality.
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by ch_123 9mo ago
That's (part of) my point. A project like ReactOS which clones Windows down to the kernel level solves for a very small set of practical use cases which are not covered by real Windows, or Linux+WINE. It's worth noting that 30 yea
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by ch_123 9mo ago
Yes, exactly my point - thanks for elaborating on it.
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by ch_123 9mo ago
I would like to see ReactOS succeed for various reasons, mainly philosophical. On the other hand, for practical real-world use cases, it has to compete with several alternative solutions: 1. Just use Windows 11. Yes, it sucks and MS occasio
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by ch_123 9mo ago
If MS abandons WinNT, then people will likely continue to use the existing versions of Windows which are out there for any existing software (just as people continue to use MS-DOS and Win 9x for old games and software). As for new software
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by ch_123 9mo ago
We might have to agree to disagree here, but I think the scenario where the IT guy uses XP and "finds" a license for it is the approach I would take if I was put in this situation. If the vendor for the CNC machine certified/
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by ch_123 9mo ago
> That's much more relevant to industrial applications where some device is controlled by an ancient computer because the vendor originally provided drivers for NT 5.0 or 5.1 which don't work on anything modern. In most of thos
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by ch_123 9mo ago
As someone who generally uses metric units, but grew up around English Imperial units - if an American says that a person weighs a certain number of pounds, I need to convert to stone and pounds in my head in order to get a meaningful menta
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by ch_123 9mo ago
It was originally created as a CDE clone (thus the original name "XForms Common Environment")
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by ch_123 9mo ago
> Use Claude Code if you > a) never plan on learning and just care about outputs, or > b) are an abstraction maximilist. As a Claude Code user for about 6 months, I don't identify with either of these categories. Personally I
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by ch_123 9mo ago
After reading this article, it is unclear to me what "The Myth of the Thinkpad" is. The author laid out a series of desirable attributes about Thinkpads, and proceeds to explain how they are all true. We are reminded that all thes
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by ch_123 9mo ago
> May be better with a native PCI-e or PCI HBA and 700W power supply and a junker ATX Linux machine to provide network shares. Agreed. Even if it's possible to get a combination of adapters to allow a SCSI interface to be attached t
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by ch_123 9mo ago
Looking at "scsi to usb" on amazon.com, most of the options I see are SATA, IDE or even parallel printer port adapters, but nothing which allows a SCSI device to be connected to a USB port.
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by ch_123 9mo ago
That's fair, and I suspect that if I either A) had a different hardware configuration at the time or B) had tried Vista about a year later than I did, I may have ended up with an entirely different opinion of it.

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