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by rahen 2y ago
When did you try it? There were some big improvements recently: > Putting EAS and utilisation clamping together, we took a 15" M2 MacBook Air from about 6 hours of useable battery life just sitting at the desktop to about 8-10 hours
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by rahen 2y ago
This will mostly affect advanced users. Hopefully, my next update will be Asahi, once its hardware support (especially HDMI output) has advanced enough.
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by rahen 2y ago
I've been using pkgin and pkgsrc for years on macOS. Occasionally, I still need a small brew prefix when a dependency is missing or difficult to build. Molten-vk was the last such package. pkgsrc is by far the most KISS package manager
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by rahen 2y ago
You may be listening to the media a bit too much. The concept of 'climate' is increasingly used in a similar way as 'social justice' in some political discussions – as a broad idea to justify various authoritarian polici
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by rahen 2y ago
What disaster?
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by rahen 2y ago
> CP/M drew heavily on DEC operating system designs, notably RSX-11M It mostly feels like a single-user version of TOPS-10, which Kildall initially used to write CP/M. OS-8 and RT-11 also borrow heavily from it, making it basic
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by rahen 2y ago
How good are Freexian / Debian ELTS compared to RHEL for their 10 years support and security fixes? Are they cost effective? https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/docs/cost-estimation/
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by rahen 2y ago
So was Google Chrome initially.
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by rahen 2y ago
I like Org mode especially. In a world of digital surveillance, AI fueled spyware, SaaS and app stores, emacs based applications are a haven of trust and freedom.
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by rahen 2y ago
I know few people who use Telegram either. All my contacts and I use Signal here.
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by rahen 2y ago
Telegram also exchanges metadata. Only Sessions and Tox achieve full and decentralized privacy.
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by rahen 2y ago
I would strongly suggest to read "ENIAC in Action" from Thomas Haigh. It's by far the most technically complete book about the ENIAC. You'll even find some code samples from 1948 on the website. https://eniaci
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by rahen 2y ago
It really depends on how you define a computer. Have a look at the Wikipedia article. For some reason the French one appears to be the most complete, it even describes every unit of the machine and features some comparison with the EDSAC, S
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by rahen 2y ago
There is a much more accurate, pulse level simulator available: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/eniac/eniac.html Unfortunately I know no simulator of the stored program ENIAC.
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by rahen 2y ago
I thought doas had solved this already.
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by rahen 2y ago
Not until long ago, we had RTF, a simple and universal rich text format that was free, simple and available on all platforms. On Windows, Wordpad was plenty enough for most needs, came preinstalled for free and barely consumed any resources
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by rahen 2y ago
I would hardly call modern X11 nicely conceived. It was nice in the 80s when everything was network transparent, X was indeed a graphic terminal for local or remote Motif apps, and everything handled by the xlib. It was then somewhat remi
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by rahen 2y ago
^ Sorry, I obviously meant RT11, not RT8.
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by rahen 2y ago
Take a look at S6 and dinit. They both embody what systemd was intended to be while keeping the portability, technical simplicity and loose coupling. You might also want to consider Void and Chimera. Void has a unique combination of technic
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by rahen 2y ago
Chimera is developed by a former Void maintainer. It's still in its infancy compared to the two main "KISS" distributions (Alpine and Void) but it looks promising, especially thanks to dinit, which like S6 is what systemd sho
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by rahen 3y ago
Take a look at Solaris. Another huge game with 48 sectors and probably the best graphics seen on the 2600, all in a 16k cartridge. Quite a feat considering how horrifyingly difficult programming the 2600 was. Even the SDK was fairly barebon
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by rahen 3y ago
Out of curiosity, could you cite a few of those paradigms? I wholeheartedly agree, by the way.
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by rahen 3y ago
It's still quite impressive to fit such a lengthy and fun game into 508KB without any procedural generation, just tight assembly and clever use of bitmaps. This is programming art.
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by rahen 3y ago
> I know there is a hardware accurate PDP-11 emulator Better yet, simulator at the schematic or microcode level. The KA11 was the first PDP11 CPU accurately simulated but the KD11 also seems to be working. https://github.com
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by rahen 3y ago
By the way, thank you for taking the time to review this great OS. This was nice to read.
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by rahen 3y ago
I strongly favored Linux in the nineties because the elitism of the BSD world was infuriating back then. There were no device drivers for IDE CD-ROM drives because "real men" were supposed to use SCSI. There were no binary package
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by rahen 3y ago
> NetBSD is more of a traditional Unix-style experience than modern Linux. That's a bit of an understatement. NetBSD is primarily about preserving the original Unix spirit with broad compatibility across both hardware and software.
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by rahen 3y ago
They don't ship faster because there's no real point in doing so, besides rushing half-baked releases. The CI/CD trend has lowered the standards on release quality and long term support. It's fast-food applied to dev, I
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by rahen 3y ago
DOS makes a nice runtime for low level and embedded applications. Some implementations are 64 bits, such as this one: https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp I wish there were an ARM-compatible version of DOS, if possible stat
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by rahen 3y ago
I would love to see such a great retro environment brought back to life on modern compatible hardware. ITS and Bliss in particular.

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