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by mschaef 3y ago
The language originated as a common language for semiconductor design tools. Ousterhout saw that a number of design tools he was involved with all had ad hoc languages, so he developed Tcl as a single common solution to the 'scripting
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by mschaef 3y ago
There's a bit of nuance in what I was saying.... I agree (and agreed) that Windows 3.1 didn't include Win32s. What it _did_ include, though, is direct support for Win32s in the form of PE executable detection and a hook for the (s
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by mschaef 3y ago
> Small correction if I may: Windows 3.1 did not add Win32S. > > Win32S was an optional extra: a separate download and was never included with any version of Windows 3.x. Andrew Schulman (in Unauthorized Windows 95) and Matt Pietre
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by mschaef 3y ago
> No offense, but I don't think you looked too hard. There are lots of calls that could be used to do things in a more performant way, Undocumented API calls were rumored to be a big deal even back in the Windows 3.x days. I remembe
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by mschaef 3y ago
> Just one confusion I have: wasn't NT Win 4.0? NT's first version released as 3.1, to align with the traditional Windows 3.1. Windows NT 3.5 (Code name 'Daytona') was a performance and stability improvement release.
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by mschaef 3y ago
> When Windows 95 was being developed, MS kept telling Lotus (and maybe Word Perfect) that OS/2 was the real future, so Microsoft's committment to OS/2 ended with Windows 3.0. But until 3.0, they themselves believed OS&#x2
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by mschaef 3y ago
> The flip case is a large reason why I prefer the 28 though I can see the split case might have some benefits. It wouldn't work the way you describe, but I wish they'd put scientific calculator hardware in the 200LX case. Nice
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by mschaef 3y ago
> While I own a few HP calculators, my favorite is still the HP-28. Not sure why it isn't as remembered as the other models, I've been a big 48 fan for years. (The 48 and the 28 are very similar.) I think they both suffer a bit
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by mschaef 3y ago
They're products of different eras - ten years separate the two. The 41 is almost pre-personal computer. By the time the 42 rolls around, personal computing is already well established. This is particularly true in the market segments
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by mschaef 3y ago
> Learning the language is not intuitive and the worst of it all is that I wasn't able to write any tests which would have helped to refactor that mess. Tcl is one of those languages that's centered heavily around a single domi
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by mschaef 3y ago
I've used Clojure personally for >10 years and done a bit with it commercially along the way. (I also have a personal affection for Lisp-like languages that goes back to at least the mid-90's.) > How did that work out for yo
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by mschaef 3y ago
It's hard not to look at this and think of Stephen Wolfram's post on the "personal analytics of his life". https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana... I have to admire the f
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by mschaef 3y ago
> OK, but why bother with virtual threads if the JVM could just magically decide to run all my virtual threads on one thread? I guess "efficient" in this context doesn't mean "fast". I want my code to run on all
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by mschaef 4y ago
> Honest question, why not just use… JavaScript? I get that this is scoped to only templating json, but the syntax is already diverging pretty heavily from actual JavaScript, while also trying to pretend to be similar? Jsonnet's sta
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by mschaef 4y ago
I can't imagine the thought process by which a niche Hi-Fi company decides the best way to automate their production system is to custom develop a totally new class of CPU... which is why I am glad there are at least a few people in th
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by mschaef 4y ago
At least if you were Transmeta. Not sure they ever made the ability publicly available. That would've been fairly contrary to their core message.
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by mschaef 4y ago
I tend to think of branches in git the same way I think about strings in C or lists in (Common) Lisp. In each of these cases, there's a simpler underlying data structure that's directly overlaid with a set of conventions. It'
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by mschaef 4y ago
> - see anyone do something in Excel that could not be achieved in LibreOffice with similar effort. > Yes, there is no 100% feature parity. But there is feature parity in the things that people actually use. It's not close to be
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by mschaef 4y ago
> I also have a HP-48SX, but it sees much less use – the buttons are not nearly as pleasant and the screen is harder to read. I have an 11C and both a 48SX and GX. I don't really think the keys on any of those were close to being in
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by mschaef 4y ago
Many of them were made with double shot injection molding. Rather than painting the label on the keycap, the label was molded into the key as a different color plastic. This is generally in keeping with HP's overall level of engineerin
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by mschaef 4y ago
> It was a Casio, and it was AWESOME at the time. I wish I still had it. Casio 7000? I remember those being truly trendsetting. (And some of the later Casio's even introduced color.)
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by mschaef 4y ago
> I have a DM42, and it is great as an object to fetishize the past. But in all honesty, it doesn't get that much use because the vast majority of the time, if I need to calculate something I'm already at a computer and reachin
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by mschaef 4y ago
Some cars also use unevenly spaced tick marks on an analog dial. Nice in that it gives you the sweep needle and range of scale without overly compressing the range of most interest. Analog tachometers for race cars do/did the the same
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by mschaef 4y ago
Yeah... Demos and mod trackers made a lot of GUS use. From what I remember, the audio synthesis model was fairly similar. I bet there was a lot of overlap between mod tracker authors and GUS enthusiasts. (And from what I remember, the MOD
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by mschaef 4y ago
> The AWE32 was amazing. I remember being so frustrated that essentially no games seemed to take advantage of it. Gravis Ultrasound (?) falls into the same category for me. Really interesting and capable hardware that didn't penetra
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by mschaef 4y ago
> Sometimes monitor cables themselves were the culprits. The Sony 17SE1 I bought was positioned as a relatively high end display. (Maybe something you'd see on a workstation class machine.). The video cable for it had DB-15 at the v
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by mschaef 4y ago
> The changes from the i80286 to the i80386 were extreme It was the 386 that really put the platform's strategy squarely in the realm of general purpose computing. The 8088 and 8086 were intended as short term backfills for the gap
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by mschaef 4y ago
> Initially intended for embedded systems, it was sold directly also to consumers with the "OverDrive" brand attached. They also spent some effort marketing the DX4 as a low end alternative to the Pentium. It was possible to bu
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by mschaef 4y ago
> straight from the 8088 + cga graphics to the pentium 100mhz (really an overclockerd 90mhz model) Now there's a jump... that must have been around two orders of magnitude more compute performance (not to mention all the rest of the
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by mschaef 4y ago
> As far as i remember Pentium at 100 MHz was slower than a 486 DX/4 at 100 MHz No... the Pentium had advantages in both IPC (two pipes vs one) and bus speed (66MHz/64 bit vs at most 50MHz/32 bit). I'd be interested t

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