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by nigwil_ 8y ago
No Rust either.
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
I clicked the BBC link and after reading a few paragraphs with many teaser words still no picture is shown? I reach the end of the article and yes there is a picture, if you click all the links to find it. http://www.parafame.org
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
There is progress towards encrypting memory, although there remains limitations, complexity and performance penalty challenges: https://lwn.net/Articles/752683/
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
Will there be a Kindle edition eventually?
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
if you fill out your hackernews bio/profile with contact details we can follow-up with you.
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
Have noted the reference, will see what we can find.
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
Also missing mention of the Cyber 205 and the Illiac IV.
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
The link in one of the posts to the Eve Phillips Masters’ thesis is now: https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/ai-b...
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
To clarify further the “gres” in Postgres and Ingres (the database management systems) are from the original acronym and that sub-part being Graphics REtrieval System.
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by nigwil_ 9y ago
Oops, you’re right my mistake
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by nigwil_ 9y ago
Platinum is USD$32K per KG, so if the platinum grid fins are 100KG, then they would cost > $300K each just for materials. With 4 per booster that might be a million dollar price tag for the grid fins.
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by nigwil_ 9y ago
Yardley's book (annotated by his arch rival Friedman no less!) referenced in the NSA document is here: https://archive.org/details/AmericanBlackChamber "The cryptography historian David Kahn called the book &
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by nigwil_ 9y ago
I like the content but: I can't link to the slide because of the way these pages are defined: slide 11: The presented argument order in the ASCII-art of Red, Blue, Green I think should be Red, Green, Blue to match the usual initialism.
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by nigwil_ 9y ago
I agree with your points [2][3]. Why is this so hard for vendors to understand? It is an old idea called "mind share" [1] or in this case technical-mind-share, a vendor should want the largest possible community of technical peopl
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by nigwil_ 9y ago
I noticed this paragraph about code to do this analysis: "Code availability. The numerical code has been developed with a dedicated application to the DAMPE data analysis. Due to the uniqueness of the DAMPE design and the compl
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by nigwil_ 9y ago
You are correct, the compute nodes run CNK. BG/Q has a few Power7 servers running Red Hat that run the cluster control, job scheduler etc
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by nigwil_ 10y ago
"...what I've mainly noticed is how physically unwelcoming it is: The edges are very sharp..." - I noticed this too on the early Microsoft Surface power-bricks (not sure if it applies to the later Surface models), the power-b
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by nigwil_ 10y ago
nothing yet, we need to find a complete release of MCP for the Burroughs B6700 before we plan out the project.
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by nigwil_ 10y ago
Did you keep any material about your time with the B7700? photos, printer listings, tapes, manuals? We're trying to build an emulator for the Burroughs B6700 (and by extension the B7700) so every scrap of information helps.
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by nigwil_ 10y ago
EF Codd updated his ideas too: Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning by E.F. Codd IBM Research Laboratory published in Volume 1 Number 1 (March 1979) issue of AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SCIENCE COMMUNICATIONS, which inco
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by nigwil_ 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I tried to search for the trial exhibits but didn't find anything comprehensive. Any idea how we could see all the trial exhibits, as in both sides? thanks.
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by nigwil_ 10y ago
They are important to our history, particularly as they represent the beginning steps in a fundamentally new technology. I would argue that our efforts to preserve what is a unique time in computing history, the birth of the electronic comp
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by nigwil_ 10y ago
Intel 3D Xpoint (Optane brand) non-volatile memory technology, claimed 1000 times faster, 1000 times durability, and 10 times denser than SSD. One terabyte in 1.5mm thick device, 15TB capacity in the usual 2.5 inch SSD form-factor. Byte-add
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One petabyte in 1RU (one rack unit)(youtube.com)
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by nigwil_ 11y ago
Important characteristics of the Intel® QuarkTM microcontroller D1000 CPU are provided in the following list: • 32-bit processor core • IA-32 instruction encoding [1] • 5 stage pipeline • Harvard architecture • 8KB of on-chip data SRAM • 32
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by nigwil_ 11y ago
Hi Tom, do you you know anyone from those days that might help us track down the Prolog and Ada implementations for Symbolics? http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/spg We heard from David Schmidt th
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by nigwil_ 11y ago
The user manual for Jim Ryan's APL\700 implementation is here: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Manuals/APL... If we can get a working Burroughs B6700 emulator (see elsewhere in this thre
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by nigwil_ 11y ago
We and others are working on emulators for the Burroughs B6700 too. If anyone can help find software for any of the Burroughs systems from that era, in particular the ESPOL compiler and the so-called INTRINSICS libraries it would be appreci
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by nigwil_ 11y ago
If anyone finds a reference to its existence we would appreciate the details please. Bauer and DeRemer's Compiler Construction text speculates about ALGOL 68 on a B5500 but we've not found any evidence so far it was attempted. As
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by nigwil_ 11y ago
Source-code here: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500 including Kildall's APL implementation (still needs to be proof read), but also note that Niklaus Wirth's programming language predecessor to Pascal kn

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