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ASRock Rack ALTRAD8U-1L2T Is a MATX Motherboard for Up to 128 Cores(servethehome.com)
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by ch_123 3y ago
I hope this practice is never extended to their more expensive (i.e. a few hundred euros/dollars) laser printers. I would not touch a cheap consumer-grade HP printer if you paid me, but have generally found that their more expensive pr
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by ch_123 3y ago
You'll need to wait for RHEL 10 :) It's worth noting that Red Hat backports newer hardware support and some functionality to its new kernels, so in practice it is not as out of date as the version may imply.
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by ch_123 3y ago
Alma have consistently released the new upstream versions faster than Rocky, so I have decided to go for them. Both distros are essentially just debranded copies of RHEL, so IMHO the choice needs to come down to which organization you have
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by ch_123 3y ago
There is a slot for an optional one, but as others have pointed out - software for the 8088 which used FP were few and far between.
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by ch_123 3y ago
HP originally had a proprietary windowing system named Windows/9000 which looked like this: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/hpwindows-starbase-u... Their X10/X11 environments came later.
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by ch_123 3y ago
Some details were of NT were more directly copied from MICA than NT. The wiki article on MICA links to a number of DEC documents in bitsavers which describe various details of the OS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_M
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by ch_123 3y ago
As others have pointed out, NT was created by former DEC engineers, and was heavily based on a canceled DEC project named MICA. DEC sued Microsoft for stealing their IP (or at least threatened to sue), and in return, were compensated with o
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by ch_123 3y ago
IBM also had experience of the 8085 and 8086 from their System/23 and Displaywriter systems which meant there was previous experience with Intel microprocessors in IBM at that time. I also read somewhere (but do not have a source to ha
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by ch_123 3y ago
> Operating Systems were at the heart of that war. Back in 1980, they were a relatively new concept. From the 1950s to the 80s, we had been using countless computers without anything resembling an operating system. The fact that many of
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by ch_123 3y ago
pSeries and iSeries were consolidated down to "IBM Power Systems" back in 2008. I think they may install different firmware onto the systems, but the differences are more related to licensing than anything specific to the hardware
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by ch_123 3y ago
On the original CISC AS/400 systems, there were two layers of "microcode" - horizontal and vertical. The vertical "microcode" was not really microcode, but was essentially the OS kernel (including the database and t
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by ch_123 3y ago
Yes, the native compilers are now LLVM based. Reading between the lines, it seems like this migration was one of the reasons this release has been delayed by a few years.
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by ch_123 4y ago
It is absolutely true that some hot-path code needs to be mangled into an ugly mess to reach performance requirements. The problem is that I have encountered people who somehow take this as a blanket justification for writing unreadable cod
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by ch_123 4y ago
According to a post on the VSI forum from one of their staff, there are about 1,300 people registered fro the hobbyist license. There are dozens of us... dozens!
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by ch_123 4y ago
FYI: CDE is broken for a number of people, there's a thread about it on VSI's community forums.
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by ch_123 4y ago
For what it's worth, when I boot my x86 VMS VM, it seems to only be using a few hundred megabytes of RAM. I believe I have read that they are still using unoptimized binaries as well, so I suspect memory usage may decrease in later rel
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by ch_123 4y ago
I'm kinda surprised he wasn't awarded it already.
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by ch_123 4y ago
I have been in plenty of pairing sessions with people using IntelliJ where the speed of thought was not the limiting factor, but the speed of navigating around the project was. There's a few critical shortcuts (particularly pressing sh
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by ch_123 4y ago
While there may be reasons to pick Oracle for greenfield projects in 2022, I suspect most of the business comes from companies which have been on Oracle for a very long time and have huge amounts of critical data in it. Oracle has likely ca
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by ch_123 4y ago
> SCO can not use GNU software so it is basically done. Not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Skunkware
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by ch_123 4y ago
I'm curious why this is not implemented as a method on the map type (and others like list) instead of being a top-level builtin. I suppose it is consistent with other collection operations such as append and len... which I guess makes
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by ch_123 4y ago
That NextCube-esque case is nice, might get one for myself :)
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by ch_123 4y ago
Running Windows 11 ARM in Parallels on my M1 MBP is a surprisingly smooth experience. Most x86 applications work well (both in terms of reliability and performance) using Microsoft's inbuilt emulation. I have not run any games or large
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by ch_123 4y ago
This was discussed in an interview between Bryan Lunduke and the founder of Arca Noae which is sadly no longer online. No - when you buy a copy of ArcaOS you get an OS/2 license. Arca Noae have an agreement with IBM to resell OS/2
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by ch_123 4y ago
Fun fact: Arca Noae doesn't even have access to the source code for OS/2. All enhancements to the core OS are implemented as drivers or binary patches.
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by ch_123 4y ago
Most of the kernel was in VAX assembly (I've seen source code listings of VAX/VMS circa V4.x). They were able to port the kernel over to other architectures by creating a compiler that treated VAX assembly as a high level language
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by ch_123 4y ago
The last I checked, EVGA's PSUs have a very good reputation
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by ch_123 4y ago
IntelliJ is a great IDE, but it's designed for professional software developers. It can potentially be overwhelming in an educational context when teaching programming to people with no prior experience.
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by ch_123 4y ago
In this case, the King's doctor essentially gave him a very large speedball without the consent or knowledge of either the King or his family. The doctor decided to do this unilaterally to ensure the King's death was announced in

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