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by eschaton 13y ago
Actually, 16/32-bit — the 68000's data bus and ALU were 16-bit, but the instruction set and register set were fully 32-bit.
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by eschaton 13y ago
You need an external clock to get a higher bit rate, such as LocalTalk's 230.4Kbps.
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by eschaton 13y ago
The site www.lisa2.com is often served from an actual Lisa 2, which was released with the Mac in 1984. (Edit: Removed a bit about the Amiga being a knockoff, as mobile reading led me to conflate this article with the one about the Amiga emu
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by eschaton 13y ago
The Lisa had the Application Toolkit, which was a shared library written in Clascal (predecessor to Object Pascal) that had all of the basic behaviors of an application. Then the Macintosh had its function library, called the Toolbox. That&
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by eschaton 13y ago
I'd suggest using multiple contexts more, not less, in applications. I'll generally use a shared "Library" instance to mediate access to data in a shoebox-style (as opposed to document-style) app. The Library has a root
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by eschaton 13y ago
What I've heard is that their system has gotten progressively better over time while their publishing had gotten worse. People in academia can get ResearchCyc and see just what its capabilities are these days; it's basically the s
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by eschaton 13y ago
Interesting that there seems to be no mention of Cyc, which is explicitly intended to be good at problems like those mentioned.
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by eschaton 13y ago
You may want to reconsider the name. There's already a (quite good) publication with the name "Monocle" if you hadn't checked. Edit: A link to Monocle the magazine: https://monocle.com/
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by eschaton 13y ago
The trend towards a beveled 3D look in GUIs only really started after NeXT started showing NEXTSTEP in 1988. It was a big differentiator for the NeXT interface; it made people sit up and take notice. Before then by and large GUIs had a flat
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by eschaton 13y ago
Most screeds I see against the Bay Area seems to ignore one of the most important things about it: It's in California, which has had laws against overly-restrictive employer non-compete agreements since the 1800s. You don't just need a crit
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by eschaton 13y ago
Minix wasn't released in 1992, the first version was from 1987.
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by eschaton 13y ago
SGI, Sun, HP, even NeXT supported multiple displays, frame buffers, and GPUs. You could put 2 or 3 NeXTdimension cards in a NeXT Turbo Cube, for example - each with its own i860 running Display PostScript and something like 32MB of RAM - an
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by eschaton 13y ago
"[M]ulti GPUs may not have existed when XP was released" The NT kernel had been shipping for about 10 years by the time XP was released. Windows NT 3.5 and earlier didn't have any kernel-level graphics (though they did have kernel-level dri
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by eschaton 13y ago
What you're referring to as "Windows" behavior is actually Mac behavior. Smalltalk scroll bars were hidden entirely when the mouse pointer was outside a scrollable view. When shown they were on the left, they were proportional and went up/d
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by eschaton 14y ago
What about the Oberon system, has anyone brought it to Raspberry Pi yet?
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by eschaton 14y ago
The main LLVM codebase includes a BF compiler as an example: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/examples/BrainF... See BrainF.cpp in particular. It's a decent first illustration of the great level of abstraction LLVM offers.
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by eschaton 14y ago
What financial regulations don't apply to Bitcoin? Just because you're using Dunning-Krugerrands instead of US Dollars doesn't mean what you're doing with them isn't transacting, banking, investing and so on. It's the act that's regulated,
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by eschaton 14y ago
If self-replication really is the holy grail it seems like it'd be easier to have the system set up as a (self-)assembly line than a jack-of-all-trades: Print photoresist, etch, drill, pick & place, wave-solder, cut, etc. And doing anyt
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by eschaton 14y ago
Part of what makes Silicon Valley work is the synergy that results from a very high concentration of technical professionals in a small region. I expect that in its heyday, Detroit's auto industry had a similar synergy. Manhattan's finance,
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by eschaton 15y ago
You lost me at "As much as I hate LLVM." What's to hate?
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by eschaton 15y ago
This is often the case with language and file format standards: The working group drafts are free, and the standard is just an approval-without-change of the final draft.
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by eschaton 15y ago
I couldn't believe what I was reading when he said "They leave after a year for better-paying jobs." No, really?! Imagine that! I wonder what might possibly help with retention...
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by eschaton 15y ago
How were they in the US in the first place?
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by eschaton 15y ago
It doesn't require you to code in a primitive style, however: It just requires acknowledging that creating a storage format is just as much an act of design as creating any other interface. For example, "transparent" serialization really is
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by eschaton 15y ago
Why would you expect "mouse-free control" for an application whose user experience is fundamentally designed around a pointer? Of course, GitHub for Mac should leverage Mac OS X's Accessibility infrastructure so it works with assistive tech
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by eschaton 15y ago
Oh yeah, and if you're paying speakers, You're Doing It Wrong. The speakers should be drawn from the attendees/members. If a speaker is a "guest of honor" (say a major keynote) you should comp them their conference membership, and possibly
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by eschaton 15y ago
There's a large number of experienced conference runners and planners who will disagree, and collectively have been running inexpensive but good conferences for DECADES. They're called "SMOFs." They run science fiction conventions. (Not "St
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by eschaton 16y ago
You're misinterpreting the post; Mikel wasn't talking about the same leak the original thread was. He was just talking about how he fixed a leak many years ago. Using Mach ports correctly without leaking is hard, similarly to how using C's