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by sillywalk 4mo ago
It's amazing how many different, incompatible computer systems IBM had back then.
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by sillywalk 4mo ago
The WSJ has a decent article about why it takes so long to build Patriot missiles and increase their production. (It wasn't paywalled for me). https://www.wsj.com/world/why-does-it-take-years-to-get-a-pa...
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by sillywalk 4mo ago
"From the archives, a bit of info on AltaVista: The Hardware Behind AltaVista AltaVista: AlphaStation 500, 256 MB memory, 6GB disk. AlphaStation 500's handle all external traffic to the site. They run a custom multi-threaded Web s
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by sillywalk 4mo ago
> Why is the latter worse than the former ? I'm not sure about worse, but think one of the differences would be the size of the 'kill zone' and the cost/availability. 10 quadcopters "cover[ed] between 3 and 5 kil
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by sillywalk 4mo ago
I'm curious what model of PS/1? My first PC was a PS/1 model 2011, with a 286@10Mhz. Also, there's an emulator for PS/1 machines at https://www.ibmulator.org/
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by sillywalk 4mo ago
I was immediately reminded of the fake VHS line artifacts for Stranger Things - A Bad Lip Reading[0], which I assume are sort of a bit about the fake film grain things during the opening titles in the Stranger Things show. [0] https:/
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by sillywalk 4mo ago
1. Get rid of Liquid Glass. Fire everyone who approved it. 2. In the Calendar Inbox, allow select all, or have the "OK" button at the same location so I don't have to click 400 different times at 400 different screen location
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
Apparently there is supposed to be a bunch of "bunker stuff" underneath it, either new or upgrades to existing ones. https://www.twz.com/news-features/the-white-house-ballroom-i...
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
> Tandem's NonStop I'd second this. Of course, there would need to be 3 emulators - the original proprietary CISC systems, the tightly-lockstepped MIPS systems, and the loosely-lockstepped Itanium systems. HPE still sells NonSt
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
I'd like to see movie versions of the original "sequels" - the Thrawn Trilogy.
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
> The core idea, tag memory with unforgeable access tokens at the hardware level instead of leaning on software-defined access control lists, is finally getting real implementation, forty-plus years later. The IBM System/38 did this
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
It was ported from the Mac version, along with Illustrator, using a set of libraries called Lattitude that implimented the Mac toolbox on Unix systems. http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392084 Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain (michaelgeist.ca) 1005 points by opengrass 61 days ago | hide | pas
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
Tune Tracker is sill(?) around, they moved to Haiku a long time ago.
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
> Why * * do we have to have a modal dialog to save a file when there's a perfectly good file manager? At least for me, when I tried RiscOS, it was annoying and more work to have to switch to the file manager and then open more wind
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
"Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about wh
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
> the main thing that killed the 3DO was the price I believe this was because 3DO didn't make the consoles themselves, they licensed the design to others who made it. The console had to be profitable, rather than be sold at a loss a
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
Previously: Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (hails.org) 1008 points by sohkamyung 6 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 255 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270
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by sillywalk 5mo ago
Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905283 519 points by skullone 1 day ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 298 comments
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by sillywalk 6mo ago
> 25 years ago there was an avalanche of new operating systems Which ones? I can only think of maybe Microsoft Singularity in 2003, and hobby OS Syllable. Neither were particularly innovative - the managed code thing had been done before
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by sillywalk 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866811 9 points by Drakexor 23 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments Points to https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-clo...
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by sillywalk 6mo ago
Also Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft (reason.com) 218 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 233 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836463
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by sillywalk 6mo ago
> Stratus was the hardware fault tolerant company. Tandem, our arch rivals, did software fault tolerance. Our architecture was “pair and spare”. To expand on this, when Tandem switched MIPS from their proprietary processors, the CPUs wer
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by sillywalk 7mo ago
> Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Which windowing features are you referring to? I recall with BeOS (and I assume Haiku) you could shift-click on the "yellow window tab" to move it along the
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by sillywalk 7mo ago
I'd add the volume control for Quicktime 4. A dial that you had to use a mouse to use. http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm EDIT: previously 763 points by yankcrime on July 13, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 477 comm
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by sillywalk 7mo ago
Dupe: Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war (twitter.com/brendancarrfcc) 208 points by theahura 10 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 100 comments https://xcancel.com
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by sillywalk 7mo ago
Ars Has a good / long article on the history of OS/2. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/half-...
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by sillywalk 7mo ago
At one time, Intel thought/said that NetBurst - the uarch for the Pentium 4 - would scale up to 10GHz.
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by sillywalk 7mo ago
> The scary thing is that Indian juduciary is infamous for being incapable of tolerating any kind of criticism against it and not hesitating to put people in jail for "contempt" for just calling out corruption. From [0]: "
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by sillywalk 7mo ago
> On the other hand, what Windows didn't yet support in this era was DirectDraw — i.e. the ability of an app to reserve a part of the screen buffer to draw on itself (or to "run fullscreen" where Windows itself releases it

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