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by rahen 3y ago
That's right, there even used to be a picture of Bill Gates and Paul Allen using the DEC-2020 at the LCM in Seattle. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/DECSYSTE...
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by rahen 3y ago
And yet TOPS-10 was fairly advanced back in the sixties. It is the common root of RT11, CP/M and PC-DOS / MS-DOS, but also one of the only system that allows to run batch and time sharing tasks at the same time. IBM couldn't
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by rahen 3y ago
Which I assume is the case, since this article is more or less a disguised ad.
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A new view of the 1948 Manchester computer(rylandscollections.com)
1 points by rahen 3y ago|0 comments
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by rahen 3y ago
When will 10.0 come out of BETA? I've been expecting its release for a while.
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by rahen 3y ago
What the hardware gives, the developer takes away. Developers will get computers 30% faster, then release 30% slower software, in a never ending cycle. Right now, an M1 is pretty fast, but wait until all developers use it and it starts to b
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by rahen 3y ago
Have a look at the PDF document here: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/259003-intellivision-devel... Also check out the links provided at the end of the document. Besides the PDP-11, I'm glad to see the beloved P
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A2: A Programming Language for the Apple II(github.com)
4 points by rahen 3y ago|0 comments
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by rahen 3y ago
Why "sadly"? Starving it also gives it less power, and more power and freedom to the individuals. This is even truer in France.
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by rahen 3y ago
Not exactly his. SAP is Malvino's teaching computer from the late 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple-As-Possible_computer But indeed, Eater is the one who made it famous thanks to Youtube.
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by rahen 3y ago
Lightning solves the fungibility issue. Then you have Monero but it's not widely adopted and has scaling issues.
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by rahen 3y ago
This is done off-chain with a layer two. Think of Lightning or Liquid on top of the BTC blockchain.
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by rahen 3y ago
I don't mean to be the devil's advocate, but I'm pretty sure that disabling Face ID when replacing the camera with a generic one is primarily a measure to thwart potential hardware-based attacks...
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by rahen 3y ago
Indeed. 1974 was the release year of V6, not V7.
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by rahen 3y ago
This shows how advanced the Macintosh was for its time. I've tried using an Apple II for modern development, but it's too antiquated for that. The Macintosh, released just a couple years later, still seems contemporary by comparis
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by rahen 4y ago
He's also responsible for a lot of urban atrocities in the former soviet countries, with endless rows of commieblocks lined up on extremely wide avenues / urban highways. At least it can accommodate some form of mass transit, but
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by rahen 4y ago
One one hand, this is mostly for legacy purpose, like OS 2200 for the current Dorados (Univac 1100), Z/OS for the IBM 360/390/Z line, or GECOS on some Bull/GE hardware, all originating from the early 60s and still alive
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by rahen 4y ago
People should see Bitcoin, the L1 protocol, as a public ledger. Anonymity is solved with a L2 protocol like Lightning, or an anonymous currency like Monero, although it has shortcomings that Bitcoin doesn't have.
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by rahen 4y ago
Most likely toto as the French for foobar. Jens Gustedt is part of the C comity and participated to C23. He also works for INRIA in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Institute_for_Research_...
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by rahen 4y ago
Examples of feature creep? Sure. Rust is a good example. Anytime we deprecate a functioning C program with a Rust one, or add a Rust dependency somewhere, we also deprecate older hardware which can't cope with it, and make those machin
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by rahen 4y ago
I use NetBSD to keep my sanity, but unfortunately, because of the sheer weight of the Linux userland, its resource inefficiency is slowly creeping into even NetBSD and OpenBSD.
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by rahen 4y ago
No there is not, it's been a thing since the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_modeling_synthesizer
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by rahen 4y ago
I would be interested in hearing more about your point. TCL is an elegant scripting language, very LISP-y, where most data structures are lists of strings. Go on the other hand is more like a modern mix of C and Pascal with GC and lots of c
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by rahen 4y ago
Because once you're invested in a Ponzi, you lose it all when it crumbles. It will, ineluctably, but if you can push the date further, then maybe you can get away with it. To postpone its fate, they'll advocate for a harsher taxat
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by rahen 4y ago
Any government wants power, money, and having society depend on them. The bigger and more powerful the government, the more they can do. Same with companies: the larger the more annoying, but at least you can choose them, and there's c
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by rahen 4y ago
Yes, that's what I've done for about a decade now, and apparently more and more people do as well (abstention is record high). The thing is I distrust big corporations almost as much as I distrust big government, but at least, it&
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by rahen 4y ago
As a French, I have absolutely no trust in the government to manage my pension. And no desire to hand them that power either. But as usual they'll fight tooth and nail to keep their monopoly, as they like us to depend on them as much a
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by rahen 4y ago
I've been there too. Installing, trying, running older and older Unixes in SIMH. 4.1BSD, 32V, V7, V6, all the way down to V0 on the PDP-7 with the help of tutorials on gunkies.org. I still keep a neatly organized folder of primitive Un
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by rahen 4y ago
> on the RSTS/E PDP 11/70 Now that is some dream machine... Hardware has become so standardized and dull with x86 and ARM "cattle" boxes running Windows or Linux, there's hardly any pleasure or emotional attachme
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by rahen 4y ago
There's conio.h (console IO), which used to be very popular on DOS for TUI apps (think edit.exe). It's probably more straighforward to use than curses: https://opensource.com/article/21/9/programming

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