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by kens 3y ago
Yes, laser printers were one of the big markets for the i960. The Am29000 was their main competitor. (People nowadays probably don't realize how computationally intensive laser printers were.)
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by kens 3y ago
I asked various people about why the KA/KB/MC/XA all used the same die even though they supported vastly different functionality. I couldn't get a solid answer, but several people thought that Intel probably used binning
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by kens 3y ago
Yes, interest in I2O was lukewarm for the reasons you mention. I gave I2O a brief mention in the article but didn't want to go into too much of a tangent :-) I suspect that some people at Intel really wanted to have IBM System/360
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by kens 3y ago
Since Bluesky is invite-only and there's a lot of clamoring for invite codes, it's easy to think that you're missing out if you're not a member. I'd like to offer a different perspective, that most HN readers would
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by kens 3y ago
That's an interesting piece of history. Thank you for sharing it.
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by kens 3y ago
Here's an example of a PCI card that supports 16 RS-232 devices: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-PCI-Express-Serial-Card/... (not an affiliate link)
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by kens 3y ago
The BiiN systems supported RS-232, RS-422, and TTY current loop. I assume you plugged a serial interface board into the system that provided multiple serial ports. But it might have been an external terminal concentrator (or establishment c
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by kens 3y ago
Thanks, I've updated the article.
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by kens 3y ago
I think the bond wire pattern was just for layout convenience: if the buses end up on one side, why run wiring around to the other side? As far as the NSA, I haven't come across any mention of the NSA using the chip, but I guess that d
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by kens 3y ago
> [18] The principles defining a religion have to be mistaken. Otherwise anyone might adopt them, and there would be nothing to distinguish the adherents of the religion from everyone else. I think what's going on here is the theory
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by kens 3y ago
I'm sure there are a bunch of people on HN who have used the i960. Author here if anyone has questions about the article.
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by kens 3y ago
The page doesn't make it very clear, but the analysis at the bottom says that is a message that the German recipient tried to decode in several different ways and then gave up. Apparently the message indicates the key (indicator group?
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by kens 3y ago
I came to the comments to find out what's going on with the 11%. I was worried that if I agreed with the majority just 11% of the time I must have reversed the buttons or something. But my choices mostly agree with the graph, so I don&
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by kens 3y ago
Yes, the original claim is wildly ahistorical. I seriously think that one of Microsoft's key innovations that made it successful was the idea that software should be paid for, not shared, and this should be enforced by law.
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by kens 3y ago
The Navy's Trieste II went to 20,000 feet (6.1 km) in the 1960s. It dove to the wreckage of the Thresher, among other things and was in service until 1980. It was replaced by Alvin-class of deep-submergence vehicles. https:/&#x2F
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by kens 3y ago
Yes, the difference made sense decades in the past when a script was a collection of commands that were followed like a written script, and a program was general-purpose code that was executed. But now, scripting languages have morphed into
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by kens 3y ago
HN makes much more sense if you think of it as a collection of chat rooms with titles. People are upvoting the topic and discussing benzene, mostly unconnected to the actual article. (Serious question: did anyone who upvoted the post read t
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by kens 3y ago
What I find most interesting is the "social history" of RISC vs CISC: how did a computer architecture issue from the 1980s turn into something that people vigorously debate 40 years later? I have several theories: 1. x86 refused t
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by kens 3y ago
A question that maybe HN can help me answer: are there any new instruction set architectures since, say, 1985 that are CISC? (Excluding, of course, ISAs that are extensions of previous CISC ISAs.)
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by kens 3y ago
I'm a bit concerned by the second-last entry in the list: "Unspeakable horrors".
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Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon(fastcompany.com)
24 points by kens 3y ago|12 comments
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by kens 3y ago
In case anyone was wondering about the $7.75 million clamed damages, the claim is that allowing corner-crossing would cause the ranch to lose 25% of its value, and the ranch is currently valued at $31.1 million. Details: https://
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by kens 3y ago
The claim is that allowing corner-crossing would cause the ranch to lose 25% of its value, and the ranch is currently valued at $31.1 million. Details: https://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/wyoming/article_a519..
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A mystery person who spies on theme parks from the sky(boingboing.net)
167 points by kens 3y ago|57 comments
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by kens 3y ago
That reminds me of the entertaining "I just want to serve 5 terabytes. Why is this so difficult?" video that someone made inside Google. It satirizes the difficulty of getting things done at production scale. https://ww
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by kens 3y ago
I wonder if 100 years from now people are going to be astonished that we were walking around full of bacteria and viruses and thought it was fine.
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by kens 3y ago
I think your skepticism is warranted; the "rogue bees" seem to be an inspirational essay thing, rather than a scientific thing. The closest I could find was a study that the waggle dance usually had errors of 10–15°. These errors
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by kens 3y ago
Yes, it's a bit surprising how much of a meme the demon core is on Twitter. Some other popular radiation memes: "drop and run", LANL plutonium rods, "3.6 Roentgen not great not terrible" and "This is not a plac
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by kens 3y ago
> Personally I don't think this case has clarified "fair use" one bit. Having read various fair use decisions over many years, I think it's reasonable to conclude that fair use law is indeterminant and incoherent. Cou
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Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement(petapixel.com)
308 points by kens 3y ago|394 comments

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