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by skissane 2y ago
Thanks… I see that’s the NT Design Workbook that shipped as part of the WRK. Interestingly it does mention 32-bit OS/2 API support (Dos32* APIs). I’m not sure if this was just a plan never implemented or if they did implement it but pu
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by skissane 2y ago
> running on Microsoft Jazz workstations (in-house Microsoft workstation design using Intel i860 RISC CPUs) Correcting myself: Microsoft Jazz machines used MIPS not i860; the i860 machines were Microsoft Dazzle NT for MIPS actually ended
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by skissane 2y ago
> although they were reused from the Viking Mars landers Correction: the 18-bit computers used on the Voyagers were reused from the Viking orbiters. The Viking landers used a different computer architecture, the Honeywell HDC 402, which
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by skissane 2y ago
I’d love to read the document you are quoting - is it publicly available anywhere?
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by skissane 2y ago
> Turns out this is not true. No, what you quoted in your comment you are replying to is accurate. What you are saying in this comment isn’t. > Confirmed that os/2 2.0 was a skinning and compatibility layer for NT it came out for
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by skissane 2y ago
> We're teaching 2020s engineers to understand machine code written before MS-DOS existed It has three on-board computers. Two of them (the CCS and AACS) are 18-bit word-oriented machines with 4096 words of memory – so in 8 bit byte
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by skissane 2y ago
I don't think it was "arrogant" – if you read the link, he explains that he originally thought differently, but he changed his mind based on what his lawyer told him. I don't think you can label a non-lawyer "arro
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by skissane 2y ago
> I never heard of an OS/2 subsystem for NT, It was there from NT 3.1 until Windows 2000; it was removed in Windows XP onwards. It was very limited – it only supported character mode 16-bit OS/2 1.x applications. 32-bit apps, w
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by skissane 2y ago
> As I understand Win32 is just one personality Not really... although NT was designed to run multiple "personalities" (or "environment subsystems" to use the official term), relatively early in its development they d
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by skissane 2y ago
> Whenever I see the Darwin kernel brought into the discussion I can't help but wonder how different things could have been if Apple had just forked Linux XNU is only partially open sourced – the core is open sourced, but significan
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by skissane 2y ago
> Does MCP or OS 2200 have any well known users, I know the Michigan state government uses Unisys MCP (I don’t know for what): https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/dtmb/Procu... In 2
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by skissane 2y ago
I think they are very different situations. Automattic (and their leadership) used their power over the WordPress open source project as a weapon in a legal dispute with a major competitor. What has Anduril done? Tried to sponsor some confe
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by skissane 2y ago
> Not sure whether MCP still receives updates though. MCP Release 21 came out in mid-2023, and release 22 is supposed to be out middle of this year, with further releases planned: https://www.unisys.com/siteassets/mi
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by skissane 2y ago
> This is wrong, Linux had plenty of momentum before RedHat specifically was purchased by IBM. I’m not defending their overall argument, but I don’t think they are talking about the 2018 Red Hat acquisition, rather IBM’s 2000 announcemen
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by skissane 2y ago
> One final note is that it was never part of the negotiations that I was expected to know or learn Arc, yet somehow in the onboarding process the HN Arc repo has found its way onto my machine, so it feels like the bait and switch is on…
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by skissane 2y ago
> It you take my property via threat of violence (coercion), that is thievery. School children understand this. So I'm sure you do as well. Taxes aren't voluntary and if you do not pay them, you will be jailed. If your landlord
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by skissane 2y ago
A Windows 3.x UI theme would get the childhood nostalgia going much stronger for me than a 95/NT4/98/2000/Me theme does. Occasionally I boot up Windows 3.1 in a VM and play a game of Solitaire, for old time’s sake - I ca
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by skissane 2y ago
> France is on their fifth republic, because the previous four republics failed. I don’t think that is really fair on France - many of those failures were due to defeats in war - for example, the Third Republic didn’t “fail”, it was conq
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by skissane 2y ago
> I wonder if there's a cultural element to it: do people support democratic processes in their families, neighborhoods, companies, etc? I don’t think that’s right - although some on the left have advocated “industrial democracy” or
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by skissane 2y ago
> Presidential system might work in France France has a semipresidential system, not a presidential system - it has both a President directly elected by the voters, and a Prime Minister accountable to the legislature, with the two having
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by skissane 2y ago
> I just don't like his arguments about it must be fast to recompile everything. C isn't necessarily fast to recompile everything. Too much preprocessor magic and the compilation can slow down a lot. And a lot of the reason for
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by skissane 2y ago
> And while glibc is backward compatible & that generally does work, glibc is NOT forward compatible which is a huge problem - it means that you have to build on the oldest bistro you can find so that the built binaries actually work
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by skissane 2y ago
> > There's also statements like this, which, I'm not a kernel developer but they sound a little to good to be true: > A small modification to the "exec" family of system calls to dispatch on executble type woul
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by skissane 2y ago
The problem is that a lot of established words have a meaning different from the mere sum of their parts. For example, “homophobia” literally means “same-fear” - are homophobes afraid of sameness? Do they have an unusual need for variety an
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by skissane 2y ago
If a book distributor is going to be criticised for censorship, we should criticise it for voluntary censorship (where it can legally sell a book but makes a voluntary policy decision not to do so), rather than legally mandated censorship u
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by skissane 2y ago
OAM and OIM aren’t “LDAP/directory products” per se. OAM is an access management product, used to implement stuff like SSO (single sign-on). So, for example, it comes with a module you can install in Apache which will intercept HTTP re
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by skissane 2y ago
> The first publicly available version of Oracle Database (v2 released in 1979) was written in assembly for PDP-11. I wonder if anybody still has a copy of Oracle v2 or v3? Oldest I've ever seen on abandonware sites is Oracle 5.1 fo
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by skissane 2y ago
What specifically makes AIX's approach to shared libraries "Windows like"?
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by skissane 2y ago
> The only still living variant is AIX. This is incorrect. The thing you have to understand about “AIX” is that historically it was not a single codebase, it was just a common brand for multiple unrelated IBM Unix offerings. (DB2 is the
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by skissane 2y ago
Yes, but the inclusion of a non-EU country in an EU programme as a special exception (not unique to Schengen) doesn’t thereby make it a non-EU programme, which is a natural interpretation of what you said

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