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by rjsw 11mo ago
I installed 386BSD 0.1 pretty soon after it was released in mid 1992. This replaced Interactive Systems 386/ix that I had been using on the same PC since 1987.
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by rjsw 11mo ago
UNIX was available for x86 systems for several years before Linux was released.
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by rjsw 11mo ago
They were also the first to produce an x86 CPU with an integrated northbridge, they could have pitched it more at embedded and industrial markets where SPEC scores are less important.
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by rjsw 11mo ago
Given who wrote it, simh seems as close to an official VAX emulator as you are going to get.
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by rjsw 11mo ago
Motorola built the 88K in between the 68K and PowerPC.
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by rjsw 1y ago
I would say that LLVM is more important to FreeBSD than it is to Linux.
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by rjsw 1y ago
I was working on diagnostics for cars using CAN in 1995.
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by rjsw 1y ago
ECUs talked to each other over a digital bus long before anyone added a connection to the internet.
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by rjsw 1y ago
That can depend on how the spec gets made into an ISO standard. There is a process called "harvesting" that can allow the original author to continue to distribute an existing specification independently of ISO.
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by rjsw 1y ago
I had been working with similar hardware and software at the time. The visionary bit for me was Jobs getting a US phone company to agree to a data plan that made financial sense to potential users.
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by rjsw 1y ago
Someone could plan to make a RK3688 laptop board for when the chip is released.
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by rjsw 1y ago
Rockchip SoCs starting with the RK3399 can do both USB3 and Ethernet. The only board that I own that does both at the same time is the Pine64 Quartz64 that uses the RK3566. My Pinebook Pro doesn't have an ethernet port, Orange Pi 5 Max
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by rjsw 1y ago
Software optimized for early model Macintosh computers runs well on later ones. WriteNow on a Quadra 950 is very fast, I don't have a spreadsheet application from the same era.
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by rjsw 1y ago
A Cray-1 was still fast at non-vector code when new.
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by rjsw 1y ago
I think ARM is trying to get better at it, they are recruiting software people, that won't have much effect on the drivers for the bits of ARM SoCs that they don't design though.
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by rjsw 1y ago
The author is an anthropologist, I think she knows the original meaning of "cargo cult". The 'cult' behaviour described in the article is that of building big data centres without knowing how they will make money for the
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by rjsw 1y ago
Council Tax bills may be possible to fake. I received a paper one yesterday for an unknown name, someone had registered online that they were moving to my address which cancelled my own account, I guess they could have asked for a copy of t
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by rjsw 1y ago
We know that you will post something about Librem 5 so there is no need for anyone else to do it.
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by rjsw 1y ago
The infotainment system can be the gateway to the rest of the vehicle network. It makes sense to attach a 4G modem to the display head to do mapping, hands free calling or emergency response, you may as well use it to download ECU updates t
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by rjsw 1y ago
Leeds/Bradford is on a plateau and can get affected by wind.
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by rjsw 1y ago
Not for VAX, see the recent thread on it [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45378413
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by rjsw 1y ago
She was CIA too.
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by rjsw 1y ago
The change was to remove the "flag bit" from each memory word. This was done before MIT System 99 which was before the first LMI release. The Lambda had memory management hardware that could make use of the extra virtual address s
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by rjsw 1y ago
The 367-80 did it fine [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_367-80#Barrel_roll
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by rjsw 1y ago
You could run 25bit images and microcode on any of the CADR/Lambda/TI machines.
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by rjsw 1y ago
It has some extra hardware to do type checking in parallel with numeric instructions [1]. [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1317224.1317226
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by rjsw 1y ago
He also worked for Tartan Laboratories [1] at one point. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan_Laboratories
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by rjsw 1y ago
I have a Nokia, works fine.
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by rjsw 1y ago
The 730 used the AMD 2900 (not 29000) chipset.
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by rjsw 1y ago
Another link for some history from the DEC side is this [1]. [1] https://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html

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