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571.
by eschaton 4y ago
No, not really. It may look similar but a lot of it has changed between the early 1990s and today.
572.
by eschaton 4y ago
Reason never found a regulation they didn’t hate or cast as the root cause for a complex problem. The Kochs created it specifically to promote that point of view.
573.
by eschaton 4y ago
XQuartz still exists and is still being updated, and you can either download and install it via an installer or install it via a package manager like MacPorts or Homebrew. It works just fine. Things aren’t any harder now than they were when
574.
by eschaton 5y ago
There’s not really much way around this since Linux puts syscall traps in every binary rather than routing through a libsyscall.so that contains the traps. (If the latter were the case, a container could provide an alternate library to do s
575.
by eschaton 5y ago
Observing this at the time, it was entirely the lawsuits.
576.
by eschaton 5y ago
Why would you claim Numbers is a clone of Excel? Spreadsheets existed before Excel, including spreadsheets with dominant market share: VisiCalc on Apple II, MultiPlan on CP/M, and Lotus 1-2-3 on MS-DOS. Excel was essentially a rewrite
577.
by eschaton 5y ago
The iBook G4 only officially supports Mac OS X and Classic (a Mac OS 9 virtual machine), don’t waste your time ordering old CDs that won’t work. If someone has managed to get Mac OS 9 running, they’ll probably post instructions or a downloa
578.
by eschaton 5y ago
Except, from what I’ve heard, RMS is full of shit about that and was actually caught copy-and-pasting Symbolics code. Kind of like how he originally based GNU emacs on gosmacs and early versions had to be removed from distribution as a resu
579.
by eschaton 5y ago
I think they mean “Smart Pipe.”
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MPE/IX Quick Reference Guide(support.hpe.com)
3 points by eschaton 5y ago|1 comments
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HP 3000(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by eschaton 5y ago|0 comments
582.
by eschaton 5y ago
The headline presumes Java ever actually went anywhere on the desktop in the first place.
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Simh changes .dsk image files by silently adding signature(github.com)
2 points by eschaton 5y ago|0 comments
584.
by eschaton 5y ago
A patent is license to be a dick. If you’re not going to be a dick, you don’t bother with the license in the first place.
585.
by eschaton 5y ago
Wow, now we just need to stop interacting with anything stateful, like the real world!
586.
by eschaton 5y ago
It’s only really feasible to ship APIs in an end-user operating system that can make forward binary compatibility guarantees. Python doesn’t make a sufficient guarantee of forward compatibility for either scripts or its C-linkable libraries
587.
by eschaton 5y ago
Thanks from a happy user of some of those early lines of code you wrote. ;)
588.
by eschaton 5y ago
Honestly neither websockets over HTTP nor the underlying protocols used by XMPP are particularly good. They should be designed more like IMAP; at CMU during the first significant IETF instant messaging effort, Rob Earhart distilled the less
589.
by eschaton 5y ago
That dependent entirely on what video card you used; Radius, RasterOps, and others were doing full 24-bit video on the Mac II in 1988-89 on two-page displays. Yes, the video card and monitor each cost about $3000 at the time, to install int
590.
by eschaton 5y ago
Acquitted only applies to criminal charges. Since this was a civil and not criminal matter, you’d just say that Shivji won (or Commodore lost) the lawsuit.
591.
by eschaton 5y ago
What are these things you’re so afraid to say under your own name? Since you’re using an alt it should be safe.
592.
by eschaton 5y ago
Since applications recompiled against the Carbon framework used the framework to access what was traditionally global state on the classic Mac OS, it could have just been to make Carbon applications preemptive and run in their own protected
593.
by eschaton 5y ago
The problem is that even if VCs hate patent trolls when directly affected by them, they don’t actually hate patents, and in fact try to make their portfolio companies patent everything under the sun.
594.
by eschaton 5y ago
The thing is, you didn’t pay more for shitty developer tools. You paid more for good tools. The system compiler existed solely to enable kernel rebuilds prior to the advent of loadable kernel modules on most vendor UNIX platforms.
595.
by eschaton 5y ago
A lot of people who use terms like “GNU/Linux” see the spread of GNU-isms in code as a way to preach their gospel and entrench their politics in codebases. Fortunately the LLVM ecosystem implemented a lot of those, so they couldn’t be
596.
by eschaton 5y ago
None of this was really the case though; the Macintosh II shipped in early 1987 and was a fully 32-but system. People get confused about its support for 24-bit addressing, but with the ROM update that came out in 1988 with the introduction
597.
by eschaton 5y ago
There’s some plan for a common bootstrap and firmware interface. Personally though I think they should standardize on IEEE 1275 Open Firmware. It’s a standard, there are multiple good open source implementations with reasonable licenses, it
598.
by eschaton 5y ago
That sounds like maybe Discord actually supports third party clients? Or is there some subtlety to this that I’m missing?
599.
by eschaton 5y ago
Not really; you’re saying that these violations of the law can become implicitly part of the terms of work and should be accepted as such, when they’re violations of the law and therefore cannot be considered part of the terms of work.
600.
by eschaton 5y ago
Imagine a venerable tool in the late 1990s using a screenshot of the tool in use in the late 1970s as part of its marketing campaign.

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