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by kjs3 1y ago
If we want to pick nits, NS had a second source: TI. But that was, afaik, just paperwork at that point (and I honestly don't know if TI ever produced a 32k processor). It takes time to bring a second source on-line. And given the trou
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by kjs3 1y ago
As a cat owner, you get used to it.
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by kjs3 1y ago
That would be a 68LC060. And the 68EC060 was no MMU, no FPU. The RC just means it's a ceramic PGA package, so an MC68LC060RC50 would be a 68060 with MMU, without FPU, in a ceramic PGA206 package binned to run at 50MHz. If you have a
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by kjs3 1y ago
AFAIK, NS used the Green Hills compiler; at least, my ns32532 dev system comes with it. It's not great, but not terrible. I personally don't remember the compiler being in the top 5 show-stopper issues with the 32k (the first 3
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by kjs3 1y ago
They did it with the 68030 before Coldfire. They discarded a number of things (e.g. addressing modes) that seemed like good ideas for the <=68020 but didn't end up being used in practice.
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by kjs3 1y ago
Plenty of people remember, and used, them. Just not people who tend to hang out here. I knew several IBM VM dev types who had them as light dev/remote mainframe access machines, usually at home. They were popular enough there was a
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by kjs3 1y ago
It's become a bit of a meme: You could have used a 555 for that! Unfortunately, those days seem to be gone. Now any time I see someone point out "you could just use a 555 for that", people are replying "I just threw a
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by kjs3 1y ago
I wasn't here to 'provide proof'. Just pointing out that any conflict beyond a certain size almost certainly has some weapon from every large arms producer deployed in the field. I can't image how many tons of small ar
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by kjs3 1y ago
Yes, we got the "you're just a luddite that hates progress" sophistry from you guys in the IE days (and before). "We're doing the same thing as Apple" isn't a particularly persuasive counter. I always ap
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by kjs3 1y ago
It's a embrace-extend-extiguish play like the old days. Add a 'feature' that doesn't technically break the rules (or only does a little), get your users used to it (by making it the default, opt-out, etc) and hope that
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by kjs3 1y ago
It would be very strange if American weapons weren't used in a conflict this big, which is a very different question from "did the US government sell weapons into this war".
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The one they invented to justify hating coding standards.
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You do not want to get cornered by them at a party talking about their pet peeve.
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by kjs3 1y ago
No...it's that "can an LLM do it better" with no other commentary is perhaps the absolute lowest effort, lowest value comment possible on HN these days and mercifully gets an appropriate downvote. The condescending response
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by kjs3 1y ago
I used Apollo Aegis (later Domain), Three Rivers PERQ and CDC NOS, all written in some variant of Pascal.
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by kjs3 1y ago
Maybe if you rub some AI on it in your pitch deck it could be acceptable to the HN peanut gallery.
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by kjs3 1y ago
If it contained fossils, it wasn't granite.
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by kjs3 1y ago
That search returns 10 items. I own more physical copies of 68030 related books than that search returns. Bonus: none of those 10 items are books. I'll stick to Anna's or the rest that actually index useful stuff.
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by kjs3 1y ago
an i-dildo if that was ever a thing Like https://www.amazon.com/app-controlled-vibrator/s?k=app+contr... ? Is there a "Rule 34" type proclamation where if it exists someone will add an app to it whether it
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by kjs3 1y ago
When a restaurant which you've been going to for years one day decides to serve you your favorite meal with a bit of poop on the side, do you not have the right to be upset about it? They're not under any obligation to serve you
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by kjs3 1y ago
It sorta did as Ada, tho Ada is a much bigger language than M2 (or Pascal)[1]. There was at least one Ada-83 compiler for DOS (Janus), but it was a tight fit and a miserable experience. To me, the missed opportunity was Modula-3; much of
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by kjs3 1y ago
8086 was a cakewalk compared to some of the weirder old chips. 6502 is a notoriously bad compiler target but things like the Signetics 2650 or RCA 1802 had a completely different set of challenges.
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by kjs3 1y ago
There was also the Jupiter Ace[1], which was sorta a Sinclair ZX with Forth in ROM. [1] https://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/
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by kjs3 1y ago
If you're so ignorant of the space you think virtualization is 20 years old, you're too ignorant to make proclamations about what anyone else should do.
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by kjs3 1y ago
So, of course, you stay far, far away from any open source software and their maintainders, since many/most of them don't get paid and are obviously nothing but one giant perverse incentive. Never use them right? Because we woul
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by kjs3 1y ago
Go to libgen.ac. Searched for '68030', because I'm playing with one. Zero books found. So, no, far less than "nearly every book".
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by kjs3 1y ago
Sorry...maybe I'm dense. Email has worked for decades. If I don't catch something this relevant in an email forum, why would I automatically, without question, see it and understand its relevance in chat, Slack, etc. Serious que
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by kjs3 1y ago
It's a grift as old as forever...for 40 years (or I dunno more?) there's been an aging, angry man buying "Jingoistic Patriot Validating Commemorative Coins (covered in no less than 1 MILLION gold atoms) of a late night TV ad
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by kjs3 1y ago
As soon as I can find the Etsy artist who's making a knockoff, I know what my part-Chinese wife is getting Xmas.
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by kjs3 1y ago
Tl;dr: Why would I curtail a revenue stream?

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