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by rahen 3y ago
That exists, that's the TOAD2 from XKL. It apparently even runs TOPS-20. You can try one online at SDF, besides their SC-40 systems, which I think are also FPGA based. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF/1098245723565908
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by rahen 3y ago
Yes, it was about the speed of an original Macintosh or a turbo PC/XT, and slower than an 11/70. https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/1986/0219.html
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by rahen 3y ago
Not very fast, but it was a bit of a standard in the BSD world as most development there happened on 750s at Berkeley. https://gunkies.org/wiki/4.1_BSD
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by rahen 3y ago
How does this compare to krustlet.dev?
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by rahen 3y ago
That's one conservative software selection; almost the entire article could have been written in 2000. Configuring cdparanoia brings back memories!
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by rahen 3y ago
I remember trying it for a while in 2012, but the results were essentially worthless, probably because there were so few nodes/crawlers back then. I guess the more users there are, the better the results.
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by rahen 3y ago
You can follow the Gentoo wiki for this: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC
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by rahen 3y ago
It's not only a concern for developed nations but a global issue. While demographic growth is gradually decelerating, we are still heading towards a population of 10 billion individuals, each consuming increasingly more resources. I co
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by rahen 3y ago
Just like you can use a fully orchestrated API-driven cloud IaaS to run a simple binary. Show me your problem, I'll show you how to solve it with the least amount of code and dependencies.
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by rahen 3y ago
The same. That, and the crazy demographic explosion in the world.
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by rahen 3y ago
I'm astonished that people on Hacker News can ask such a question.
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by rahen 3y ago
I am sometimes amazed at how difficult programming was in the fifties and sixties. I think the Gamma 60 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Gamma_60 ) takes the cake. It was basically like programming an Itanium with pu
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by rahen 3y ago
Some early computers even had a dual-mode (binary / BCD) ALU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Gamma_3
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by rahen 3y ago
To be very pedantic, CP/M was mostly inspired by TOPS-10, which also inspired OS/8, RT/11, and even PC-DOS.
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by rahen 3y ago
The first generation computers, using vacuum tubes, were indeed usually bit-serial. Some had parallel ALUs, or sometimes just parallel multipliers units, but an entirely parallel computer designed with vacuum tubes would have been very powe
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by rahen 3y ago
Ah, yes, there were even ternary computers, using three states (1, -1 and 0) instead of two.
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by rahen 3y ago
Standardization on 8-bit multiples only really occurred with the IBM 360 in the late 1960s. Before that, six bit words were very common with plenty of 12, 18 and 36 bit machines (every PDP besides the 11, CDC 160, UNIVAC, early IBMs)... Som
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by rahen 3y ago
What's the point of rewriting from C# to Rust, as C# is performant enough and already has memory safety? What will offset the huge rewrite cost?
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by rahen 3y ago
Those machines are vectorized, batch computers. They process data in an entirely different way and also lack the required IOs. I doubt Doom on an ASR-33 would be much fun.
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by rahen 3y ago
It's a lesser known fact but Chicago also has French origins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chicago
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by rahen 3y ago
Weren't France and Germany essentially the same country during Charlemagne?
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by rahen 3y ago
Check out Mariani, a port of AppleWin (Windows) for macOS and Linux. It's open-source, cycle accurate and emulates a fairly good number of devices: https://github.com/sh95014/AppleWin The last version finally has
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by rahen 3y ago
Virtual II is overall the best Apple II emulator across all platforms, and the article doesn't even mention how stellar its debugger is. My only gripe with it is that it's not as accurate as AppleWin, despite excelling in every ot
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by rahen 3y ago
It's written in Go though, so quite a bit less portability.
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by rahen 3y ago
Indeed. Also the default editor for ELKS (Linux for PC/XT and ATs).
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by rahen 3y ago
French and English coexisted as neighbor languages for more than a millenium, so there are a lot of both subtle and obvious similarities between the two.
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by rahen 3y ago
Exactly. BASIC a high-level low-level language, effectively pretty close to assembly.
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by rahen 3y ago
Seeing the ENIAC and EDSAC in operation, meeting Von Neumann and Turing would have been appealing, but that's about it. And those things were accessible to only a select few privileged individuals.
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by rahen 3y ago
Thank you. Could you give summarize the main differences in approach between dinit and S6? I find S6 a stellar init system, so I'm interested.
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by rahen 3y ago
Linux is an anarchy, a hacker playground where anyone can pick the parts he likes the most and contribute new ones. If you want a monolithic, standardized, opinionated Unix, you may want to try macOS.

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