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by lproven 11mo ago
Quite. I tried to explain the relationship here, when the previous major release appeared: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/11/memtest86_70_released... Passmark bought MemTest86 after MemTest86+ was forked
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by lproven 11mo ago
> it thinks This is your mistake right here. It doesn't think. It's a text generator. It can no more think about what year it is than Swiftkey on your phone "thinks" what year it is when you type NEXT YEAR WILL BE and
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by lproven 11mo ago
Oh my word. I did not see that earlier thread. I knew Thien-Thi when he lived and worked in Brno for a while around 2015. He was a fascinating man, and I very much enjoyed talking with him over a few beers several times. Very sad news indee
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by lproven 11mo ago
No, for an X2100. The chassic with the new parts already fitted. E.g. https://www.xyte.ch/shop/x2100-pricing/
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by lproven 11mo ago
They only cost this much with the new parts fitted . Various versions have been on sale for 5+ years, often billed as the X2100. https://bmdiethelmv.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/thinkpad-x2100-...
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by lproven 11mo ago
> what do you mean you bought it for +$2k? You can buy the hardware already upgraded with a new motherboard and screen.
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by lproven 11mo ago
It is highly pleasing and apt to me that the real original CDE, open sourced after a petition by Peter Howkins https://www.theregister.com/2012/08/09/cde_goes_opensource/ ... is still being maintained...
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by lproven 11mo ago
Huh. I missed the Intel thing, but then, I've been so underwhelmed by RISC-V that I don't track the sector. Thanks for the info!
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by lproven 11mo ago
Yes, that is indeed what I was getting at. I could have made it clearer by replying to the same parent comment as you. Sorry about that.
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by lproven 11mo ago
> I used it with Samba network drives to watch movies on the TV. Me too. It was a life-changing tool: take some cast-off free hardware and a bit of free software, using an exploit to an old game that cost me £2 and a tool to put it on a
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by lproven 11mo ago
Previously... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29252121 (4Y ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261237 (5Y, 1C) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19414275 (7Y, 33
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by lproven 1y ago
Agreed. I have good colour and stereo vision, but I'm very shortsighted. I'm also nearly 60 and now wear varifocals with 3 focal lengths for books and phones, computers, and distance. But 1980s long-persistence-phosphor CRTs looke
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by lproven 1y ago
10.8 was Mountain Lion. But before OS X was OS 9, and OS 9 was not the same thing as OS-9. https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Mac_OS_9 https://microware.com/ Before OS 9 was OS 8, which was unrelated to OS&
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by lproven 1y ago
> What is the purpose of this OS ? What is the purpose of any OS? As all the modern ones slowly converge on similar attributes of being incomprehensibly vast codebases unreadable by any human, typically implemented in C or something clos
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by lproven 1y ago
> Genode, another OS that runs on SeL4. Hang on, what? Genode can run on seL4 but seL4 is not part of it. Genode can also run on Linux and a bunch of other things. It has its own native kernel and it's not based on seL4 in any way,
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by lproven 1y ago
I hope you are right. I like the idea of free and open source CPUs. I think the industry needs this. But so far, the promises have not come true, and I am a skeptic at heart. P.S. what "Intel thing"?
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by lproven 1y ago
If you want that, there is Thunderbird Portable. https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable :-)
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by lproven 1y ago
We'll see. I approached John Ronco from SiFive who had just come off stage after a talk at the Ubuntu Summit in Rīga: https://events.canonical.com/event/31/contributions/199/ ... and asked him, tel
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by lproven 1y ago
> That'll be true for a few months at best. The thing is, I have been in this business for 38 years now, and people have been telling me this for at least 3 or 4 years now. Including face-to-face from industry chip makers. Really,
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by lproven 1y ago
Eudora had its own very distinct take on mail client UI. Many loved it. I never really got on with it, although I could use it. While the native codebase is probably too old to salvage now, there was a project to write a Eudora-style UI f
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by lproven 1y ago
100% this. It is an error of thinking not to blame them.
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by lproven 1y ago
Vivaldi has one now.
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by lproven 1y ago
> had they not gotten lucky with the whole MS-DOS deal, maybe they would have kept Xenix and who knows how that would have turned out. Oh, absolutely, yes. It's one of the historical inflection points that's visible. My favouri
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by lproven 1y ago
> I did the same, but with Tandy 4000s. Never saw one of those. Tandy computers did exist in the UK, and even here on the Isle of Man there was a single Tandy's store. (They weren't called "Radio Shack" here.) But whi
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by lproven 1y ago
Some of us are working day jobs in tech and remember the first guy.
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by lproven 1y ago
Inconceivable! My eval box for my work Xenix deployments was an 80286: an IBM PC-AT with 512 kB of RAM. Everything worked.
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by lproven 1y ago
> SCO Unix on a 25 MHz 386sx with 8 MB and another 6 MB on an add-in card OK, SCO Xenix not SCO Unix, but I deployed production Xenix boxes with 4MB of RAM on 80386DX processors. It ran well and supported 4-6 users no problem. As I recal
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by lproven 1y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955319 (7 comments)
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by lproven 1y ago
> My impression is that there was also a bit of a culture clash. Agreed, but my impression was of a more complex one than you imply. There were a whole bunch of competing commercial Unix-like OSes in the 1980s. But there were other preju
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by lproven 1y ago
> You can get ARM-based PCs and laptops. Thing is so far they all suck except for Apple right now. This is true, but there's a consolation -- they suck much much less than RISC-V kit. I run a bunch of nearly 15 year old laptops. I

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