scruffyherder

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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Were you using a 1986/1987 386? I know everyone has super rose tinted glasses when it comes to OS/2, but try it on period hardware, with what shipped in 1987. Its terrible. And yes it runs great on Pentiums or anything new under
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Look for PS/2 aix 1.3 It’s not very stable, although I don’t know if it was a flakey processor
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
The 487 was the “full” replacement chip upgrade. I still don’t know why the addition of the math coprocessor helped so much
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Yeah, although it was apparently really early 386 boards. I’m not sure how it would work electronically though.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I should do a tutorial on stealing the urban mech, and saving the chameleon!! It’s so much better with those 2 mechs
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I used a lot of compressed air on the socket and it made no difference. Old DOS 5 ran fine along with OS/2 1.21. The upgrade to 6.123 went fine, it’s just something else weird . Sadly I don’t know if any other 386 fans to give this a
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I just got a newer cpu today I just wanted to write something out as I wasn’t expecting this kind of response. There is no problem with the drive on dos, windows or os/2 1.2 so it’s something about it being an early 2.0 beta and probab
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
How big was the database? that database 'engine' thing is free for DB's under 2GB back in the SQL 7 days.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Itanium XP was weird, it's like that super early AMD64 version where more of the OS is 32bit than 64bit, with no high theming. It was still exciting at the time.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Had DEC no cancelled, NT would have never been, and Gates wouldn't have had the confidence to abandon OS/2. So in the end we all won, just Dec had to die. But DEC only saw Altavista as a toy, something for showing off big systems,
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Was the HAL really that compilcated? It was listed as one of the reasons why Compaq had bailed on NT. Also were you involved at all with the 64bit versions of NT? It's cool that checked build got out, and kind of funny how the compiler
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
damn so many potential questions, but I don't know if you can answer any as I know most people that were in those pivotal years are so cagey about it.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
i'd probably blame the compiler. It's a weird mess of DEC objects being glued together to run on NT (Like the MIPS/PPC ones too). And if you wanted to make anything that for sure ran on all CPU type's you'd build
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Instead, I got one with a different CPU architecture, at a comparable price which was my goal. The unlock took the most amount of time. The larger point is a comparison of AXP64, and ARM64. AMD64 hardware is pretty much easy to find, and n
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Indeed. I thought it was a fun distraction, as it's not often you get to recycle some old junk, and mix it with new software. This thing with a cracked screen had zero viable future.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
thanks? lol
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
Drivers are always the issue, but Windows gets security updates.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I was worried it was stolen, but it was not. I reached out to him, and he did contact Xiaomi, but that went nowhere. So he gave me a password to try and it worked, so I could log him out after giving him the account number, and he could t
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
It almost never renders on my iphone correctly. I can't make updates or changes on the road.
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
As of now there is only MIPS. https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/11/10/revisiting-windows-nt-4-... The OpenGL is more 1.0 than 1.1... so it makes for interesting ports. I need to touch on that one too. so much to
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
es40 also seems to use lot of the same ideas I need to blog more on it but finding this 64bit alpha kind of was a big surprisie and has eaten more of my time. Ive been trying to figure out how the clarcrom.exe is decompressed, and comparing
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I have found an old branch of qemu that claimed to support ARC, but it didnt do anything. I'm at a loss on where or how to proceede. https://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/es40.git If you can try to help, as always much
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
So I have to ask, were you swept up in the Compaq merger? No doubt NT on alpha wasn't a big seller, the fact the 64bit compiler was hiding in plain sight pretyt much sums that up. But it had to be a simple sales # thing when they kil
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by scruffyherder 3y ago
I think it's how they got Cutler to come over. And of course Cutler didn't come alone.
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by scruffyherder 4y ago
Hong Kong is paying companies to form companies in the Mainland. So if you like Grant money, I'm sure it'll end in a massive surge
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by scruffyherder 4y ago
Thank you for thinking opt out censorship in the so called 'free world' is a good thing. It's a shame so many western people rally around their censorship, their restrictions, and act all surprised that their sites get blocke
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by scruffyherder 4y ago
It's enabled by default. You have your facts wrong.
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by scruffyherder 4y ago
What sins other than original sin is this generation so undeserving of a mythos. Sad.
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by scruffyherder 4y ago
They got bought out and not only was the adware removed, the guy was fired. If anything the lesson is there is never a follow up or redemption arc for giving stuff away for free. The plus is all the trendy concern trolls are on Github, so I
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by scruffyherder 4y ago
It's why despite constantly being asked to interview at FANG I don't, as I just don't feel like dealing with that kind of stress. I prefer to stagnante to being obsolete where I am. I saved up enough that I paid off my house

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