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Discussed 4 days ago: TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem (xtxmarkets.com) 245 points by rostayob 4 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 107 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529
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"In the DOT&E’s annual report issued in January, officials reported that “soldiers assessed the usability of the XM157 [the weapon’s fire control mechanism] as below average/failing” and that rifles equipped with the mounted o
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Discussed recently: Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support (lwn.net) 203 points by ahlCVA 2 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 54 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45302721
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> 768KB I & D cache per core PA-RISC has mostly always had large L1 caches ( that used to be off-chip), and usually no L2 cache. I know this bit of trivia, but I don't know the technical reasons/trade-offs for it.
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> The Onyx2 looks like a dorm fridge that also makes espresso. It was the Indigo that made espresso. :) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SGI_Espressigo https://www.reddit.com/r/Silico
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Canada still has the Foreign Enlistment Act[0]. "Any person who, being a Canadian national, within or outside Canada, voluntarily accepts or agrees to accept any commission or engagement in the armed forces of any foreign state at war
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Bitsavers has an interesting paper on PA-RISC 2.0 (the jump to 64 bits). It's got a high-level introduction, and then all the actual details. https://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/pa-risc/PA_RISC_2.0_Architectur..
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Nitpick: The AS/400 in 1988 didn't use the PowerPC. I believe it had it's own proprietary memory with tag bits included. The first RS-64 with the PowerPC AS extensions came out in 1995.
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I remember buying a Sound Blaster Pro. I remember being amazed by the talking parrot, and DR. SBAITSO - That's Sound Blaster Acting Intelligent Text-To-Speech Operator. It also had the proprietary Panasonic CD-ROM connector.
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The US Secretary of Agriculture suggested Medicaid recipients and automation. I doubt that'll work. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-agricu...
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> I just finished reading "Fortress Rochester" by Frank Soltis, the designer behind the IBM System38/OS400/iSeries sw. There's a copy of the previous version, Inside the AS/400, also by Frank Soltis on archi
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Go to about:config and set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false There are a a bunch of other browser.ml settings, but I don't know what they do. Also, there was a local AI model downloaded somewhere in the extensions settings that can be r
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The translucency goes all the way back to the original Aqua interface in Mac OS X. I believe the compositing started getting some GPU acceleration (Quartz Extreme) in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar all the way back in 2002.
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Looks like they're using the SPARK subset of Ada: "NVIDIA began implementing SPARK in its security strategy in 2019 on select pieces of firmware. They began training additional personnel in SPARK and eventually developed an in-hou
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> Brad Carvey Trivia: He's the brother of Dana Carvey, and Garth wears a Video Toaster T-Shirt in Wayne's World 2.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043164 167 points by xqcgrek2 22 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 159 comments
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There are a lot of countries in South and Central America, where the US overthrew an elected government and supported dictators, that might disagree with the term "benevolent".
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> a presentation from years ago which showed that some IP is shared between the Z and Power CPUs. The eCLIPz project, for the POWER6 & Z10[0]. "The z10 processor was co-developed with and shares many design traits with the POWER
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It was an AS/400, not a supercomputer.
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There was an earlier article that had more details[0]. And the Redbook for the High-End server[1] has a lot of information. [0] https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-power11-launched-with-up-to... [1] https://www.redb
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Nitpick: it's no longer iSeries, it's the unsearchable IBM i now. I believe it goes (System/38)->AS/400->AS400e->System i->iSeries->i5->i > if one core of a processor in a x86 server dies, your serv
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> For some inexplicable reason, Apple's website does not offer a Mavericks download link. Their official list skips straight from Mountain Lion (10.8) to Yosemite (10.10). Does anybody have an idea why Mavericks isn't available
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44975122 30 points by NomDePlum 1 hour ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
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Apparently WordPerfect started out on Data General minicomputers. Stuff on porting it to (modern) Linux (2022) https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/20/wordperfect_for_unix_... https://github.com&#x2
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> a new kernel is relinked at every boot Known as OpenBSD kernel address randomized link (KARL)[0][1] Also, libc, and libcrypto are re-linked at boot [2]. And sshd [3]. [0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=14973202
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I remember trying this on an actual floppy disk. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33123697 226 points by lproven on Oct 7, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 151 comments
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There was a 3rd party toolkit called I believe Equal, then Lattitude for porting Mac Apps to Unix. Equal was used to port MS Word & Excel, and Lattitude for porting Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. It was essentially a reverse-engineere
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It's not a PC, but SGI made an espresso machine inside an Indigo case as a marketing gag. The "Espressigo". https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SGI_Espressigo https://old.reddit.com&#x
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> MIPS was the original development architecture for Windows NT, Nitpick: I'm pretty sure the original ISA was the Intel i860.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33398600 142 points by zdw on Oct 30, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 74 comments

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