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by lproven 1y ago
Came along later. 386BSD was 1992: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.bsd/c/TZ-gIRRHiXA/m/eA... BSD/386, later BSD/OS, was 1993: https://www.krsaborio.net/bsd/resea
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by lproven 1y ago
"Several years"? Try "a decade and a half". AT&T itself ported UNIX™ to the Intel 8086 in 1978: https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other... The 8086 was the first e
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by lproven 1y ago
> Concurrent DOS This is the real deal here. CDOS was a multitasking, eventually x86-32 native, OS that could multitask DOS apps even on a 286 . Back in the 20th century the limitations on a multitasking DOS were largely around hardware
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by lproven 1y ago
I am a big fan of VLC, and I just wrote an article about it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/vlc_guru_gong/ But VLC is a multi-function tool that can play audio and video. Foobar is, as far as I c
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by lproven 1y ago
Been running Foobar 2000 for macOS for a year, but this is pretty in a retro way, I guess. https://www.foobar2000.org/mac <- the least bollocks-infested media player on macOS since about, oh, September 2000.
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by lproven 1y ago
You beat me to it.
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by lproven 1y ago
Betteridge's law surely applies.
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by lproven 1y ago
There are 3 freeware versions of WordPerfect. • The final version for classic MacOS, and there's a ready-made VM to run it on a modern Mac. • The GUI version for Linux, and there's a site dedicated to helping you install it on a m
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by lproven 1y ago
This was very surprising to me. I'm quite interested in such a tool -- but then I found my own project linked there, and my Register article about it! They have 1 thing wrong: there's nothing virtual about the DOS on my USB keys.
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by lproven 1y ago
Or just using a different type of pen, rather than trying to re-learn to write.
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by lproven 1y ago
As I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932398 -- try a fountain pen.
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by lproven 1y ago
> hand fatigue Try a fountain pen. Seriously. Many people press far too hard with ballpoints; with a fountain pen, you can't -- you'll bend the nib and smudge. Some adults won't have written with one since school; younger
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by lproven 1y ago
Oh nice. I occasionally mention EDE in desktop roundups on El Reg. Glad it is not forgotten. It's based on FLTK, and although the effort to create FLTK 2.0 faltered and died a few years ago, last year there was a new point release, FLT
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by lproven 1y ago
Oh my yes. I want every app and every web page to be 100% navigable if I do not have a pointing device attached to my computer. And I want this enforced by law, by large rich countries. Accessibility to people with disabilities would be a g
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by lproven 1y ago
> I can't say I have ever missed the ability to select and copy text from the UI chrome Good heavens. I boggled at this. It's not every single day, but probably at least once a week I am frustrated by this, and have been since
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by lproven 1y ago
I was thinking of Arcan and the Lash#Cat9 setup by the end of your second paragraph. I'm very surprised you had not met it: it seems so directly aligned with your interests and goals, but all you seemed to talk about was Jupyter, a too
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by lproven 1y ago
It's not even CUA compliant. It's like one of those broken GNOME 40 tools, for people who don't know how to drive their computer with their keyboard.
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by lproven 1y ago
You do make a good point there. There's a tonne of insular parochialism: "my tool is the best tool and I will loftily ignore the others." This is why I wrote this: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06&#x2F
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by lproven 1y ago
If we are going to broaden this to Screen and its "TUI" style features, then the most complete effort at a programmable TUI in the Linux space I've seen is `desktop-tui`. https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/de
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by lproven 1y ago
> I liked the Transmeta web page from before they launched. It was just bare HTML with no styling. It said: > > This page is not here yet. I remember that fondly. If you did view source there was a comment that said something lik
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by lproven 1y ago
Code morphing was fascinating. I had no idea nVidia tried anything similar. I always felt Transmeta could have carved out a small but sustained niche by offering even less-efficient "morphing" for other architectures, especially d
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by lproven 1y ago
It does now. :-) It didn't when I posted earlier I wrote that article, but I no longer post my stories to HN because I am subject to a block and anything of my own I submit is flagged [dead]. I do not know why, and I have written to
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by lproven 1y ago
For those afflicted by Meta syndrome, Lee F is a fairly regular poster and commenter in the Vintage Computer Club group. :-)
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by lproven 1y ago
Fascinating! Thank you!
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by lproven 1y ago
Interesting. Ada is in the greater Wirthian family (it's Pascal-like), and until now, the only Unix-like kernel I was aware of in a Wirthian language was TUNIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUNIS It was implement
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by lproven 1y ago
SGI's Forms programming toolkit led to both XForms: http://xforms-toolkit.org/doc/xforms_1.html#Preface (The original basis of the Xfce desktop -- "XF" stood for XForms.) And the FLTK toolkit: https:&
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by lproven 1y ago
There's a Linux version. https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/ I do not know of a single distro that includes it, but then, this may be because I think it's not 100% FOSS.
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by lproven 1y ago
Which I link to in the article, as well as later comments from that thread, and the TUHS discussion thereof.
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by lproven 1y ago
Kind of -- but bear in mind that the software this article is about (I wrote the article, BTW) is older than the first microcomputer. (I'm using the MITS Altair as my example here.) Retrocomputing is huge, but it rarely goes much older
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by lproven 1y ago
Oh hey -- that's my article. Thank you, Ricardo!

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