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by lproven 5mo ago
Get it working smoothly with ErgoEmacs and I'll give it a look. Actually, Emacs folks, please could someone do an Emacs distro with ErgoEmacs pre-integrated, for instance that picks up the OS's language and keyboard settings?
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by lproven 5mo ago
Sort of both. > AmigaOS was a pre-emptive multitasking OS Yes, but without memory protection. > whilst PCs had to wait for Windows NT/95. While Windows 2 on an 8086 could pre-emptively multitask DOS apps, so long as they all fi
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> I used a Microsoft PowerToy to switch between desktops, I think all the way back to NT 4.0. Sure, yes, me too. And there were 3rd party add-ons like 9Desks: https://www.hexagora.com/en_dw_9desks.asp But the thing is th
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More info from the other chap involved in the port: https://www.ilande.co.uk/2026/04/06/porting-3dmm-to-linux-pa... https://www.ilande.co.uk/2026/04/17/porting-3dmm-to-linux-pa.
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by lproven 5mo ago
> When I don't have a GUI available, I use micro, nano, joe. I'd use any of them in preference to Vim. But you might find you like Tilde. https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/
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by lproven 5mo ago
I feel the same way. When I started at Red Hat in 2014, they asked if I liked Vim or Emacs, and what was my favourite IRC client. They were boggled when the answers were "neither" and "I can't remember." I hadn&#x27
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by lproven 5mo ago
> My Kindle Scribe makes me a little sad every time I use it. I played with a 30something friend's brand new ReMarkable a few years ago. I was torn between tears and rage. It is so miserable and dumb and primitive. I own 2 Newtons.
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by lproven 5mo ago
[[citation needed]] I tried it last year, was impressed, and have now moved all my Windows partitions to it. I don't use it much (mainly Mac and Linux here) but it does all I need and more. I have not seen a single problem. Everything
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by lproven 5mo ago
> Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else. I agree. But it's all relative, and I did actually like how Win7 l
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by lproven 5mo ago
I was an Archimedes owner and user so I didn't get to use an ST until the 1990s and an Amiga until the 2000s. > Hm. I have a Firebee downstairs untouched. :-o > I am tempted to point an LLM at the MagiC sources and have it port t
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by lproven 5mo ago
> Firefox is probably doing it wrong Up to a point -- although Mozilla added vertical tabs about a year ago, it's pretty clear nobody uses them, same as nobody left at Microsoft is competent enough at customising a Windows desktop t
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by lproven 5mo ago
I believe you. I never touched a real PenPoint device, sadly. I never got to use a real NeXT cube -- they were formidably expensive over on my side of the Atlantic, the price of a _high end_ new car before I could afford a car at all. I own
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by lproven 5mo ago
> One interesting turn on the ST side was the creation of from-scratch GEM implementations. Oh yes indeed. I was on the edge of the FreeGEM project: I did some bug-fixing, documentation, translation, and stuff like that. I ended up learn
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by lproven 5mo ago
> Ah, the SAM Coupé, it was such a bad luck coming at the end of 8 bit home computers. You're right. I feel it should have had a much faster Z80 as stock, but it was probably too expensive at the time. The very next year, the MSX Tu
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by lproven 5mo ago
Twas ever thus. There was the proposed eTLA namespace extension... https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/TLA.html
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by lproven 5mo ago
> GEM Desktop 1.2 looks sooooooo like the ancient Apple operating systems. Yes, it does. So much so that Apple noticed and sued. I gave some links in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121011
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by lproven 5mo ago
I offer a modern distro of a DOS. :-) So yes. https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos
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by lproven 5mo ago
> ... Is that Sinfest? From before the author went weird? Yes it is. I still read the comic, but it is very strange and unpleasant, really actively nasty, now: currently it's in an arc of why Jews are behind all the world's pro
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by lproven 5mo ago
You really do. It is pretty much a work of art. I have tried to persuade people a few times now. This may amuse. 2022: https://www.theregister.com/software/2022/06/21/risc-os-is-3... 2024: https:/&
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by lproven 5mo ago
Nope, I am with @sharts here. In my then job we called Win98 "GameOS" and I have zero nostalgia for it and the horrid IE4 "Active Desktop". Yuck. By XP the rot and bloat were getting serious. W2K was the peak. All downhi
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by lproven 5mo ago
But it causes cognitive overhead: you need to think about which bits of the title-cum-button bar are safe to grab, as opposed to which overloaded and do other things, which are possibly useful. I use Firefox. I also use macOS a lot. Firefox
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by lproven 5mo ago
Released November 8 2006, so not yet 20Y old... quite...
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by lproven 5mo ago
> a single substantive UI improvement in the last 20 years? On the desktop? No. In human-computer interaction? The multitouch UI using a capacitative touchcreen, as used in the iPhone (2007, so 19 years ago) and iPad (2010). This redefin
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by lproven 5mo ago
Yup. Nemanja Trifunovic's recent history is pretty good, I thought. https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/history-of-the-gem-...
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by lproven 5mo ago
> I don't know what happened to GEM. Choosing to interpret you literally: Apple sued, and DR had to cripple GEM 2. The Atari ST version was unaffected. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/01/business/
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by lproven 5mo ago
Relevant: "Trust Me, You Want SunOS 4.1.4 on Your Older Sun Boxes" (May 4, 2026) https://oldsilicon.com/technologies/sunos-414-older-sun-boxe...
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by lproven 5mo ago
> I used RISC OS at home. Was wonderful to come back to that. Same here. Windows 2 and Mac System 6 at work, RISC OS 2 at home -- faster, more responsive, more capable and flexible, and much better looking. Some of my friends had Amigas
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by lproven 5mo ago
Thanks! Is it me or do 3/4 of the pages not load any images? The title took me a moment to work out. I suppose it was written by someone who speaks in an accent where "OS-some" sounds like "awesome". It does not to
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by lproven 5mo ago
> If you still want to work on it, add sample code. Oh my word. I haven't played with it in some years. That doesn't make it impossible, just harder... And ideally, non-trivial examples...
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by lproven 5mo ago
Thanks! And to @einsteinx2 and @rp8yxmdmr too.

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