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by nigwil_ 11y ago
I would like to highlight that the first validated Ada language processor from 1983, the NYU Ada/Ed interpreter is still missing, along with its associated toolchain (an early SETL compiler for VAX/VMS implemented in a FORTRAN-lik
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by nigwil_ 11y ago
"Who's gonna preserve that stuff?" There are dedicated groups attempting to do what they can, getting the word out so that more eyes can scan the landscape and sight historical ephemera to be preserved helps too: http:/
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by nigwil_ 12y ago
A possible solution to the firehose problem are stream-databases, the catch phrase is "rather than data waiting for queries, it is queries waiting for data". The people behind Truviso ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by nigwil_ 12y ago
"Ceph isn't ready for production." - this is not the case. Ceph object-store known as RADOS is production ready and supported by Red Hat [1], in addition the block-device service known as RBD which is an access method to RADO
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by nigwil_ 12y ago
I think the solutions offered are incomplete, that is there is insufficient data in the NYT story to indicate the proportion of rentals to sales. The solutions offered have simply chosen one solution out of many. The solution needs to be pa
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by nigwil_ 12y ago
Emulators for many of the Soviet calculators here: http://www.emulator3000.org/c3.htm
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by nigwil_ 12y ago
John Carmack [1] highlighted the tyranny of limited screen real-estate could be vanquished by immersive media (virtual reality) headsets - easy to imagine a VR "code landscape" littered with derelict or active work-in-progress cod
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by nigwil_ 12y ago
A while ago I transcribed the voice-over of this clip as part of our efforts to document and resurrect several early Burroughs systems: http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough...