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by pmarin 7y ago
Chicken is also an interpreter.
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by pmarin 7y ago
They remove all the bottleneck from the previous generations making it more interesting for networking and desktop use.
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by pmarin 7y ago
Or block javascript in any browser.
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by pmarin 7y ago
> Why would Canonical care? It become popular in the cloud because it was popular in the desktop.
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by pmarin 7y ago
I think Thorsten Glaser resurrected the port because he wanted to test his shell (the MirBSD Korn shell) on m68k. Many other people also helped of course.
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by pmarin 7y ago
My real usercase experience is not the same. None of the modern web browsers are really usable with 512 mb.
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by pmarin 7y ago
Many things, none of them good if you have 2 Gb of RAM, 2 cores and no graphics acceleration. Chromium works really well in this kind of hardware specially with javascript blocked.
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by pmarin 7y ago
>There is lack of support in the upstream Linux kernel, toolchains, and web browser Except firefox who become useless on 32 Bit after quantum I don’t have any problem with Debian on my netbooks. I am really curious about the “lack of sup
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by pmarin 7y ago
Ruby/Python/Perl is not UNIX.
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by pmarin 7y ago
The first year of BYTE is amazing but over time in all of those computer magazines there is a shift from hobbyists and doers to just consumers.
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by pmarin 7y ago
We used to have GPIO ports in all computers including laptops via the parallel port.
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Cable Lacing(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pmarin 7y ago|0 comments
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by pmarin 7y ago
Recently I started playing with classic Forth systems like figforth and pygmy. If you are using MS-DOS on QEMU there is a open source utility called DOSIDLE.EXE that keep the CPU usage low and stop the annoying CPU fan from spinning.
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by pmarin 8y ago
Maybe the post was Fabien Sanglard's Git code review: http://fabiensanglard.net/git_code_review/index.php
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NVMM: A full, fast and flexible virtualization stack for NetBSD(blog.netbsd.org)
150 points by pmarin 8y ago|24 comments
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by pmarin 8y ago
openmsx is the best one. https://openmsx.org/
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by pmarin 8y ago
I suspect most of these people were former IDE users that can not be productive without those features.
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Artyping (1939)(archive.org)
60 points by pmarin 8y ago|6 comments
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The Comdyna GP-6 analogue computer that I use daily at work(reddit.com)
64 points by pmarin 8y ago|37 comments
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by pmarin 8y ago
How? I don’t think he is facing the heater while working.
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by pmarin 8y ago
The author is one of my favorite hacker/ingeneer. Mathias's projects when he was still in high school during the 80's: Primitive plotter: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/plotter.html Primitive 1
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by pmarin 8y ago
less messing with build systems.
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by pmarin 8y ago
> When I want J to do something in a program, I fiddle with it until I get the "sentence" right, and that's it. That sentence will never be modified again. If I need it to work differenty, I'll rewrite that sentence f
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by pmarin 8y ago
We used to call it the “beep” :)
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by pmarin 8y ago
It is not a Desktop because does not follow the desktop metaphor [1]. He is using just a window manager. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor
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Self-Study Tips(shihchinw.github.io)
2 points by pmarin 8y ago|0 comments
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by pmarin 8y ago
On my netbooks I have been using the html only version of Gmail because it became faster than the modern web app.
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Lightweight versions of websites without all the bloat(github.com)
184 points by pmarin 8y ago|96 comments
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OneNote Genesis (2004)(web.archive.org)
25 points by pmarin 8y ago|9 comments
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by pmarin 8y ago
Javascript.

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