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by p_l 1y ago
The registry key to specify startup program is ancient and goes back to I think early-ish windows NT. It allowed to switch between new shell experience (Windows 95 explorer style) and old Program Manager
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by p_l 1y ago
Before Windows 3.0 made a big splash, it was major source of Windows revenue - bundling a stripped down windows runtime with applications as GUI SDK. Windows 3.0 effort was initially disguised as update for this before management could be c
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by p_l 1y ago
While NT OS/2 effort started earlier, Windows 3.0 was apparently an unsanctioned originally rogue effort started by one developer, initially masquerading as update to "Windows-as-Embedded-Runtime" that multiple graphical pr
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by p_l 1y ago
single, 1 terabyte long, line.
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by p_l 1y ago
FWIW, journald's file format is one case where upon reading the spec I said it needs to be taken behind the barn and shot as a mercy. And no, it had nothing to do with being binary, and everything to do with badly mixing "durable
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by p_l 1y ago
Vectored Exception Handlers. Better support for dealing with "we never tested outside of windows 98" apps. early version of SxS. Various small enhancements.
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by p_l 1y ago
I read the original mention as trying to claim that it could have been solved by allowance for multiple codepages. But for processing data in one common database, especially back then, you wanted to keep to single variation - main reason fo
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by p_l 1y ago
For PDP-10, because it operated only on word values, you can easily assume that every bus and memory operation passes a full 36 bit word every time. In fact, recent-ish x86 CPUs have similar instructions, and as of Zen4 they are fast not
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by p_l 1y ago
In EBCDIC world, not exactly, but all the place names being in one codepage is literally a return to why the accented names disappeared :)
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by p_l 1y ago
In a way, the fact that you have home computer market calling it 16bit, while at the same time you have workstation systems that plainly talk about 32bit ISA, shows how much of marketing issue it is :)
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by p_l 1y ago
I'd say that it's a somewhat extended 8bit device because it's still 8bit focused architecture (6800) with extensions towards better handling of 16bit values and certain common parts involved including the zero/direct
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by p_l 1y ago
They are atomic, indeed. The underlying implementation might have used masking and shifting, especially in bit-slice implementations like KS-10, but as far as operation of the computer was concerned they were atomic.
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by p_l 1y ago
You don't want to switch code pages while processing the data unless you add extra fields to indicate code page, ISO 2022 style (or in fact old baudot shifts style)
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by p_l 1y ago
When 32 bits were chosen it was because it was deemed a temporary thing for an experimental protocol, so there was no need to invest into proposed 128bit addressing by IIRC Vint Cerf (or 160 bit addresses of ITU/ISO protocols). After a
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by p_l 1y ago
Motorola 68k is a curious case because it originally was supposed to be a 16bit cpu, not 32bit, and the 24bit addressing that ignored upper 8 bits didn't help the perception. Ultimately, 68k being "16bit" is a marketing thing
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by p_l 1y ago
Only as of 8 months ago, honestly surprised they even managed at all.
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by p_l 1y ago
gauges in JS? that's how all gauges with dynamic display works in MSFS 2020 and presumably 2024, so yes it still works.
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by p_l 1y ago
There were already parts in MSFS 2020, namely gauges aka everything in cockpit that had more dynamic display, that used JS based SDK in order to provide sandboxing and safe level of control over performance (because with sandboxes VM it&#x2
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by p_l 1y ago
Yukikaze is a very interesting novel - still have to sit down and read the novels instead of watching the anime, but an important plot element is both the interactions between humans and their AIs (which are not just "human in a comput
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by p_l 1y ago
The really sad thing is that the manufacturer in question, NEWAG, simply makes good trains. But for whatever reason they decided they are goingto fight the end of servicing monopoly with underhanded methods (law forcibly disaggregated servi
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by p_l 1y ago
Zen 4 memory controllers operate preferably in multiplies of 512bits (single burst on 16n prefetch mode DDR5 channel, 4 channels on consumer Zen4 devices)
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by p_l 1y ago
64 byte cache line size matches 64byte single burst transaction on DDR3-5, and ganged dual channel transaction on DDR2. Matching those together means you have a nice 1-to-1 relationship between filling a cache line and single fast memory tr
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by p_l 1y ago
I think it was Tuxedo that accidentally ended up with GPLv3 drivers and no ability to relicense them. Which means they can't be upstreamed because GPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 (for the same reason CDDLv1.0 is considered incompati
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by p_l 1y ago
NASA would have wanted to get rid of SLS itself (but probably stay some of the subordinated parts) because there's a good reason why it's nicknamed "Senate Launch System"
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by p_l 1y ago
Oh, didn't know the game I know as "The Guild" had a longer past. It had 2 more sequels after Die Gilde, in fact.
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by p_l 1y ago
In ye olden times, when most X11 applications understood "-geometry" and didn't try to do too much in absence of WM, things worked. Chromium and possibly others (Chromium is just what I have personally dealt with) was confuse
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by p_l 1y ago
In practice multiple applications get confused, and some don't support -geometry or equivalent. One specific case I dealt with was Chrome/Chromium that provided all sorts of annoyances until we dropped in a minimal WM (back then i
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by p_l 1y ago
That issue is more naivety than anything else. At least some ideas that were floated early on are deader than dead, like copy-paste as DBus Service
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by p_l 1y ago
Part of what causes problems is that the freight rail is run in a way that does not allow any other use, including even other freight if something goes wrong (like regularly running trains longer than longest siding)
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by p_l 1y ago
GNOME started moving in that direction back in 2.4 release - GNOME 3 was where, for better or worse (my personal opinion for worse) they decided to experiment even further away from the beaten path. But the seeds of what became GNOME 3 were

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