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by fredoralive 10mo ago
Octopus cards had already been introduced in Hong Kong, and I think similar cards had been trialled elsewhere, so it might be that sort of thing they’re thinking of?
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by fredoralive 10mo ago
I think I’ve seen iButtons used occasionally on self checkouts for staff authentication (age check or the scales fucking up like they always do etc.), although with most they just use a magic barcode or a pin / password.
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by fredoralive 10mo ago
See also FCVTMOD.W.D in RISC-V. The fact that you have to provide a way covert doubles to int32 like x86 does because of JavaScript is a weird design greeble all future ISAs will probably have til the end of time…
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by fredoralive 10mo ago
> Liberal Democrat - which particularly disappoints me don't you remember 2010?
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by fredoralive 10mo ago
I suspect SGI and DEC / Compaq could look at a chart and see that with P6 Intel was getting very close to their RISC chips, through the power of MONEY (simplification). They weren't hitting a CISC wall, and the main moat custom RI
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
Possibly some issues with the hose length and the ability control the flow? Or perhaps it’s just an off the shelf up chuck chucker that doesn’t have a longer hose?
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
AFAIK most StarMax systems that were released (a prototype exists of a CHRP StarMax model) are based on the Tanzania / LPX-40 design, which is mostly a traditional PCI PowerMac[1], albeit with oddities like support for PC style floppy
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
Clicking the "100%" next to the zoom slider gets another Word 6.0 refugee, complete with nice pixel art 4:3 CRT. In Windows 10, Wordpad and Paint can both bring up the classic Windows 3.x colour picker Window, complete with the in
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
I think some of the more academic discussions on CPUs can often be stuck in the late-1980s 5 stage classic RISC paradigm. Those really would cripple your performance for misaligned access, as it would raise an OS exception and make the kern
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
A failed config load probably shouldn't be a fatal error if a valid config is already loaded?
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
STREAMS isn’t a networking protocol, it’s an internal data routing thing some UNIXes use locally, and amongst other things to implement the network stack in it. You’d still be talking of stuff like IP addresses and the like with it. Probabl
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
No, in 386 mode 3.x and 9x the System VM and other DPMI clients runs in protected mode. Virtual 8086 mode, as its name somewhat suggests, only runs real mode code.
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
Windows 11 drops IA32, and thus (first party) MS-DOS and Windows 3.x support. Windows actually has some special cased support for (at least some of) the problematic 16 bit InstallShield installers to run a 32 bit version instead on AMD64.
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
The idea of more big endianness in Linux wasn’t particularly welcomed by Linus Torvalds however: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-%3DwgYcOiFvsJzFb%2BHfB4n6W...
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
Linux has mostly transitioned to little endian on PowerPC. AIX remains big endian.
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
Not everyone has that sort of luxury of access to source etc., people want their existing binaries to run faster. Also, if you need to recompile to get a performance boost, why not recompile for a cleaner modern architecture? You can always
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
If there was demand for more high performance 68k processors, presumably Motorola would have made more. But by the time of the 68060 customers for high end 68k had either already moved onto various RISC architectures (Mac, UNIX workstations
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ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky (Comcast)(bbc.co.uk)
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by fredoralive 11mo ago
The UK version of Monopoly uses Jail, not Gaol. It looks like it did from the first UK editions in the 1930s, so even then I guess Gaol was out of fashion.
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by fredoralive 1y ago
I'm not sure they usually have the views on screen in the cockpit in flight, even if available (and an old MD-11 freighter won't have the cameras in the first place). The picture of an A380 cockpit (on the ground) on Wikipedia doe
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by fredoralive 1y ago
It's kinda a neat idea for a fixed target CPU like on a games console, but for a general purpose CPU range you generally don't want to reveal too much behind the curtain like that, what if you did a new model with a bigger scratch
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by fredoralive 1y ago
As someone living in Europe, I know it’s perfectly normal to have living monarchs on coins. It’s only normal people who have to be dead before getting on them.
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by fredoralive 1y ago
Presumably some, although HPE don’t use the old Cray logo, and the name is a bit downplayed when they talk about their supercomputer stuff, although it is still used (like most old computer companies, naturally they’ve ended up owned by HPE
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by fredoralive 1y ago
The CPU was capable, Amiga OS wasn't.
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by fredoralive 1y ago
That may not be a perfect answer. One issue with fire suppression systems and spinning rust drives is that the pressure change etc. from the system can also ‘suppress’ the glass platters in drives as well.
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by fredoralive 1y ago
I believe they were concerned that Northern Irish terrorists might use the distinctive number plates to target military personnel.
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by fredoralive 1y ago
Luckily, the Venn diagram overlap of black hat hackers and greying IBM mainframe programmers who understand things like JCL, RPG, COBOL and VSAM is a very small one indeed.
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by fredoralive 1y ago
The greengrocer’s have taken the entirety of the British High Streets apostrophe supply.
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by fredoralive 1y ago
Generally, Turbo toggled some form of slow mode. Back in the XT era, enough software relied on the original 4.77MHz CPU clock of the PC and XT that faster Turbo XT clones running at 8MHz would have a switch to slow things back down. It pers
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by fredoralive 1y ago
x86 isn’t a VAX though, not all CISC architectures are equally complex (or RISC arch’s reduced), and VAX does have a reputation for being a particularly CISCy CISC. We don’t really know fully if the same tricks would have worked as well wit

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