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by helf 4y ago
The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).
272.
by helf 4y ago
Oh this looks awesome!
273.
by helf 4y ago
I’ve played DF off an on for ~15 years. Love it always get an upvote.
274.
by helf 4y ago
Holy shit! This is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen in a long time.
275.
by helf 4y ago
I love my protrek. I have a PRW-3000 with the inverted LCD. I have worn it every day for at least a decade. I still want a smart watch of sorts. Just nothing out there has grabbed my attention yet. The last "smart watch" I had w
276.
by helf 4y ago
He needs to port a FPS to the Timex. There is already tetris :) https://github.com/PsiKlops/TimexBlocks
277.
by helf 4y ago
Legacy? The Hip New Kid on the block, "Tesla", started this bullshit.
278.
by helf 4y ago
Microtransactions, subscriptions for damn near everything, in-app purchasing for every little addon, *aaS... I hate the modern tech world in a lot of ways. It is ridiculous. OEMs: "oooh.. EVs are just computers with Wheels. I bet we ca
279.
by helf 4y ago
Quick! Start posting Z-libraries entire 31TB compressed archive!
280.
by helf 4y ago
The legions of neckbeards who worship him as a real life Stark will follow him to their graves.
281.
by helf 4y ago
Bye, twitter.
282.
by helf 4y ago
My NeXT kit that I sold: https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/albums/7215762370071298...
283.
by helf 4y ago
Damn nice. Yeah I love the old Toshibas. Same with the old NECs.
284.
by helf 4y ago
Posts like this are why I love HN. Thank you for the interesting read!
285.
by helf 4y ago
They need to just quit en masse
286.
by helf 4y ago
Hell no.
287.
by helf 4y ago
Don’t get me start on LTT. Same dipshits who ran ZFS on top of unRAID. And unRAID is already an abomination. grumbles
288.
by helf 4y ago
My friends had a running joke about me “over utilizing hardware”. I used a NEC Versa P/75 (pentium 75 (no mmx), 40mb ram, 350mb HDD, 4GB CF card, modded ORiNOCO Gold cardbus WiFi card, heavily modded Windows 95b (not 95c, mind you. No
289.
by helf 4y ago
Screenshot of gmail on my NeXTStation Turbo Color. It’s dated 2009 so I think I may actually have been using my NeXT through 2010 and had my dates off. https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/3947037084/in/p
290.
by helf 4y ago
Offtopic but since people were interested: 1. This is dated 2009 so I may have used my NeXT more like through 2010. Honestly a bit fuzzy on the time frame 2. Here’s a screenshot of when I got Omniweb to load gmail after a lot of fiddling:
291.
by helf 4y ago
Thanks :) I wish I had kept more of them. I had to move a few times and got married and just didn’t have the space for 2000lbs of furniture sized systems lol. The IRIS3130 went to a museum, at least! As for the SSL… I’ll dig through my stuf
292.
by helf 4y ago
Dude! Ltns! Hit me up on telegram @ressedue !
293.
by helf 4y ago
I heartily recommend EIZO LCDs. They are awesome. Support everything. And you can fine tune everything including clocks from their onboard settings.
294.
by helf 4y ago
BeFS is one of the things I miss the most. My dream is an unholy merger of ZFS and BeFS.
295.
by helf 4y ago
Aha! I am mildly surprised I remembered that correctly as I hadn't thought about it in yeeears. Thanks for the info :) Is there any memoir, book, whatever detailing out decisions on the hardware? Like why did they go with the 603? etc?
296.
by helf 4y ago
I wonder if they will ever target such an old ISA. What are your sound problems? I only briefly used BeOS on an actual mac and it, amazingly enough, worked without a hitch.
297.
by helf 4y ago
They did. The initial CPU target for BeOS was the AT&T H0BB1T DSP. The alpha copies were called Shark. I actually have system images for the hobbit builds still floating around somewhere. I never did get my hands on a prototype hobbit b
298.
by helf 4y ago
Well, I sold mine for almost $800 like a decade ago and they are only getting harder to find. I wish I had kept mine.
299.
by helf 4y ago
Still have one? I am jelly. Is there a working version of Haiku for them yet?
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by helf 4y ago
yes! The Blinkenlights on the front of the case were a hoot. I had a prototype BeBox for awhile and it was delight. I linked to some images in another comment.

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