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by mrpippy 8y ago
NXP still makes a range of ColdFire-based chips, which is based on M68k
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by mrpippy 8y ago
The Dropbear SSH server/client uses libtomcrypt/libtommath
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Definitely, it appears this is thanks to the work/awareness of Nate Warfield at MSRC https://twitter.com/dk_effect/status/993903701419999232
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iMac at 20: The reaction after the 1998 iMac introduction(macworld.com)
2 points by mrpippy 8y ago|1 comments
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by mrpippy 8y ago
They should be more specific, it seems from the graphic that they're really talking about C++17. std::filesystem and the other brown-colored features were just added in VS2017 15.7
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by mrpippy 8y ago
It's been a few years but it was GCC 3.3 as I remember, always being called in C89 mode. Worst part was that there was a debugger, but it couldn't actually be used. All you get is printf()
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Was this on AT&T's wireless network or wireline DSL/fiber? This problem is about the wireline network/CPE.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Unlikely through the courts, although state utility regulators (i.e. the California Public Utilities Commission) might take interest. Democrat members of the FCC also might be interested.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
10.13 added support for Time Machine over SMB ( https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/Net... ), I don’t think network TM support is going away anytime soon. A change to the TM format to take
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Depends on how cheap, the Minnowboard starts at $150 https://minnowboard.org
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Qualcomm only releases source code because the GPL requires them to. If it wasn’t for that, there would be absolutely nothing.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Apple still sells a USB CD/DVD burner, I don't think they'll be dropping DVD playback any time soon. I think it's more likely that they've had an intern rewriting DVD Player.app in Cocoa and Swift, and it'll sh
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by mrpippy 9y ago
True, it wasn't until 10.6 that a 64-bit kernel was available, and only newer machines got to use it. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/5/
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by mrpippy 9y ago
It's funny, Microsoft Office has the same problems to an even greater degree (vastly more users, more 3rd party extensions, an entire suite of apps each probably more complex than VS), and yet they've had a 64-bit edition availabl
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by mrpippy 9y ago
There are also a whole bunch of APIs left out of 64-bit macOS, including almost all of Carbon that dealt with UIs (HIToolbox, ATSUI, QuickDraw, Nav Services, Dialog/Menu/Font Manager, etc). None of these APIs have received anythin
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Apple couldn't have gone straight to 64-bit apps on Intel--the OS and frameworks just weren't ready yet. The Intel machines shipped starting with 10.4.3, which only supported 64-bit command-line apps/daemons. Only with 10.5 (
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by mrpippy 9y ago
A year or two ago I built dropbear on Power MachTen, worked great and just needed a couple fixes to bring it back into compatibility with GCC 2.x. Playing around with Professional MachTen (for 68k) is a real trip though. 4.3BSD, an even old
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by mrpippy 9y ago
I sent a feature request in 2016 to GitHub to support Mac line endings, it was "passed to the team for future improvements". Not holding my breath.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Agreed, at least make sure it will still compile with line endings changed before submitting pull requests. This builds with CodeWarrior 10 (from 1996) which is probably OK with non-Mac line endings, but there are other old Mac codebases on
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Ooh more source code for classic Mac games! Most of the big PC games that have source releases (like the id engines) just came with DOS/Windows source, not the Mac ports.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Apple supports and hosts MacPorts https://www.macosforge.org
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by mrpippy 9y ago
IRIX had a userland interface for PCI access: pciba(7) I don’t know of anything that used it, but I’m sure there were custom PCI cards for data acquisition, hardware control, etc etc. that used it. http://nixdoc.net/man-page
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Even OS X's C++ usage is kind of a historical oddity. OPENSTEP drivers were written in ObjC for an API called DriverKit, but OS X/Darwin/xnu replaced that with the C++ IOKit. The rest of the kernel is still C. I wrote a comme
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by mrpippy 9y ago
True, although it was from 1982-1994.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Some cable systems (Comcast has been migrating I believe) do use H.264, but I don’t know of any OTA usage. There is “Mobile DTV” AKA ATSC-M/H which uses H264 and is designed for mobile reception, but stations are rare and commercial ad
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Very interesting. Was the build environment all inside MPW?
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by mrpippy 9y ago
Yes, I'm pretty sure it did. I seem to remember one of the APFS sessions at WWDC (either 2016 or 2017) had a demo about how local TM snapshots used to work (really kind of a hack), and how APFS would improve the situation dramatically.
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by mrpippy 9y ago
SPARC still exists, and is big-endian
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by mrpippy 9y ago
And that's just for 119 miles of track in the Central Valley. How much will it cost once they get to populated areas?
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by mrpippy 9y ago
It looks like the Exynos 9 Octa 8895's 4 main (big) cores are a custom Samsung architecture which is almost certainly out-of-order, and is probably affected. The "little" cores are Cortex-A53, which is in-order and not affect

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