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1. 511.▲
   by i336_ 10y ago

   Some additional details about the project may be useful to others - you've described a fairly wide range of scope at a rather abstract level here. I'm quite confident a number of highly knowledgeable people have looked at your que
2. 512.▲
   by i336_ 10y ago

   Oh of course, the XP DDK. And MZ-hunting makes perfect sense. Thanks for the quick reply :) and kudos for figuring out it was the bootloader, hah
3. 513.▲
   by i336_ 10y ago

   A cool way to fix this if Microsoft doesn't want to (although I can't see it being that hard) would be to make a small stub that simply kills the AVX flags then chainloads through to NTLDR. It would probably be quite a simple pr
4. 514.▲
   by i336_ 10y ago

   As someone completely naive about Windows (and particularly low-level development), I'm casually/idly curious if the DDK includes the debugging tools you used, or if I have to throw money at people to get at them. (I know the DDK
5. 515.▲
   by i336_ 10y ago

   If you have the resources, find out what museums are in your area, or plan trips to the museums that contain things you'd be interested in. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MikoF6KZjm0 is in a museum, as is
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   by i336_ 10y ago

   For anyone similarly curious what Celeste is, there are some screenshots at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1467 , and it's included in http://files.squeak.org/3.7/unix-linux/ . No, it doesn
7. 517.▲
   by i336_ 10y ago

   Right, that makes a lot of sense. If you develop the CLI version more and made it easier to (for example) batch-apply patterns against many datasets, and added sufficient facility to fix the other configuration gripes that are currently har
8. 518.▲
   by i336_ 10y ago

   Thanks very much for this info. For a few years now I've wanted to build a handheld device that captures the essence of Lisp machines, Forth, and systems like the Commodore 64 and Canon Cat, in a portably accessible/usable form, w
9. 519.▲
   by i336_ 10y ago

   Okay that's really impressive. By "bound over", do you mean tunneled, or "made available alongside"?
10. 520.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Thanks so much! That was a really interesting read.
11. 521.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    It's harder now, because any developer can make a fancy framework, draw some graphics, make a website, find a domain (on the .io TLD!) noone else has thought of yet, and look as good as (or better than ) multimillion dollar companies.
12. 522.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Here you go: http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5170/ega/2048kb/re... Probably not what you used to use, but "ctty com2" (and a couple of Returns directed at the VT100) will m
13. 523.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    I went from amazed ("it's like a mechanical watch...") to bored/irritated ("oh, so THAT's what 110 baud was like... ouch") to amused ("...but I could put up with this, I guess.") as I watched thi
14. 524.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Ah, I see. I finally get it: cmd.exe must be running for the *ConsoleOutput API calls to work. I don't have the specifics for POSIX pipe redirection, but I do know that you use dup2() to redirect everything appropriately. Oh... as for
15. 525.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    In 32-bit Windows (which you can still get). The NTVDM was removed from 64-bit Windows, and presumably the graphics hardware emulation was too since it's not used by anything else. On x86_64 cmd.exe is purely a console. [EDIT: I misund
16. 526.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Replying to OP because it's the most logical place to put this - I'm curious what a "USSD code" is, and what kinds of codes I could input into the dialpad that do interesting things. (I'm already aware of standard t
17. 527.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Yup, the 8085 CPU emulator in VT102.pl[1] uses a JIT which is essentially a string-replacement engine. [1]: http://cvs.schmorp.de/vt102/vt102 (note - contains VT100 ROM as binary data, but opens in browser as text)
18. 528.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Ohh no. Was there anything that created these lace cards as part of normal operation? I'm guessing not, considering the ramifications. What about programs that did this when they encountered bugs?
19. 529.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Thanks so much for sharing this. This is exactly the kind of TTY history I've always been looking for.
20. 530.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    > I consider swaths of modern hackers who simply don't know about much of ASCII as evidence of babysteps towards computers maturing as a technology. Nobody else has argued on this point yet so I'll throw my 2¢ in. (An aside:
21. 531.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    I'm curious what these are used for. --- For those curious like myself (heavily elided for smaller wall of text): The Z80-SIO (Serial Input/Output) ... basic function is a serial-to-parallel, parallel-to-serial converter/con
22. 532.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    As someone still learning about the finer points of social interaction (and sorely lacking in experience), what would you say are some of the signs that this sort of thing is happening?
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    by i336_ 10y ago

    I wish Plan9 were practically usable (good graphics support, modern chipset support, etc); it's the lack of those types of critical features that limit its widespread use at the end of the day. From `man socat', which runs on Linu
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    by i336_ 10y ago

    Thanks so much for clarifying the specifics of what happened to you; this is one of those situations that's hard to imagine, making it that much harder to envisage exactly what can go wrong, where and how. What I'm wondering now i
25. 535.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Ah, thanks! That's pretty cool. Very nice that I can change the serial number! That's actually kind of better than the FTDI route, where the serial numbers are hardcoded; I get to use my own serial numbering scheme. I kinda expect
26. 536.▲
    by i336_ 10y ago

    Interesting. I'd gotten the impression the FT232 was "rock solid" and filed them away as "they're good, use them", but that was before the bricking incident, and now I'm not really sure anymore. I guess on
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    by i336_ 10y ago

    It would have been really awesome if USB was compatible with TTL-level (5v, maybe 3.3v) "serial". This nonstandard variant of definitely-not-RS232 is everywhere . But... > And the USB committee probably figured to be not full
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    by i336_ 10y ago

    And ^W deletes words. Both shortcuts work in terminal emulators. (As an aside ^W is much easier to input^Wtype as a "fake backspace" thingamajig^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmnemonic than ^H is.)
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    by i336_ 10y ago

    ^V will put DOS (and cmd.exe) into "next character is literal" mode, so "echo ^V^G" will make a beep. I think you needed ANSI.SYS loaded for it to work though (?). Speaking of DOS, I've never forgotten that BEL is A
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    by i336_ 10y ago

    Consider just taking a photo of the table you found. It's entirely possible that someone reading this thread will be able to source it. But it's just a text table, right? It should be fairly trivial to reproduce it from a decent p