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by pmcjones 1y ago
China seems to spend a lot on its military as well as its industry.
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by pmcjones 1y ago
So diesel-electric cars.
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by pmcjones 1y ago
SQL, cost-based database query planning, transaction locking, … — System R.
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Zuckerberg's philanthropy cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness(mercurynews.com)
6 points by pmcjones 1y ago|6 comments
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by pmcjones 1y ago
The Quark was discontinued in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark
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PaulG on building the infrastructure of the police state(twitter.com)
46 points by pmcjones 1y ago|24 comments
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by pmcjones 2y ago
The Voyager computers have done pretty well (with some help from JPL).
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by pmcjones 2y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43468959
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by pmcjones 2y ago
The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop Computing in the Middle Ages by Severo Ornstein - https://worrydream.com/refs/Ornstein_2002_-_Computing_in_the...
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by pmcjones 2y ago
I visited the Mill in the mid-1980s. There was still a smell of lanolin in the stairwells.
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by pmcjones 2y ago
Or every billionaire will want a world leader?
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by pmcjones 2y ago
There's currently no way other than crawling the web site. The HTML and PDF files are intermingled with the original files. (I'm the author of the blog post, walkthrough, and archive.)
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by pmcjones 2y ago
At the end of the article are two links: https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/index.html https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/xerox_alto_file_system... The first is the actual archive; the second is a &qu
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by pmcjones 2y ago
As far as I know, sabbaticals were universal.
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Musk Chaos in Government Funding Process Protects His Chinese Investments(delauro.house.gov)
15 points by pmcjones 2y ago|0 comments
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Europa Clipper: 'Our Earthly emissary will visit a place we cannot'(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by pmcjones 2y ago|0 comments
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by pmcjones 2y ago
But C was better because it incorporated byte addressing (BCPL was based on word addresses).
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by pmcjones 2y ago
For a look at how BCPL developed (by being easily ported to new machines), see: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL
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by pmcjones 2y ago
In particular, one of the projects that Steve Bourne had previously done is the Algol68C compiler at Cambridge. See: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68i...
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by pmcjones 2y ago
Actually you can set up a good approximation using iPhoneOS>Settings>Accessibility>Audio & Visual>Headphone Accommodations. Under Custom Audio Setup, you can select a audiogram, such as produced by an app like Mimi, or scann
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by pmcjones 2y ago
You can sync your own MP3s using iTunes Match -- it's about $25/year. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108935
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by pmcjones 2y ago
More early history about System R, DB2, and some related systems here: The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics https://mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/
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It Was Ten Years Ago Today(blog.dshr.org)
2 points by pmcjones 2y ago|0 comments
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by pmcjones 2y ago
DB2 was not part of OS/400 -- it was for MVS. Its early history is covered in this: https://mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/index.html
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by pmcjones 2y ago
I still use Picasa on Windows, but its cloud features (uploading and mapping) don’t work anymore.
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by pmcjones 2y ago
Many were at his Living Computers Museum, and had been restored and available to the public. But he'd only loaned them to the museum, so now his estate is selling them off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Comp
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GEN One: Innovations from the Paul G. Allen Collection(christies.com)
9 points by pmcjones 2y ago|2 comments
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by pmcjones 2y ago
Evans Hall [0] on the UC Berkeley campus is a brutalist building completed in 1971. My friends and I watched for many months as a steady stream of cement trucks drove up Hearst Avenue; we joked about how there would eventually be a similar
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by pmcjones 2y ago
SQL/DS was actually a slightly reworked System R, the research system that invented SQL. And the original DB2 relational layer was reworked from System R. See: https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/i
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by pmcjones 2y ago
A SNOBOL4 implementation that Charles Simonyi and I did during 1968-1969, and a revised version, 1971-1972.

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