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by stmw 9mo ago
That is unfortunately the likely fallback... It just feels so wasteful and inelegant.
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by stmw 9mo ago
Indeed, for those interested, the Whirlwind archives include a lot of details on Jay Forrester's core memory, as well.
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by stmw 9mo ago
I think it's even more than that - it birthed SAGE and many other descendants. The wild thing is how readable and recognizable the ISA is. Someone ought to build an emulator...
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by stmw 9mo ago
This appears to be the opposite - "PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others)"
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by stmw 9mo ago
Than you, will look... I had been vaguely aware of it before but will look more seriously.
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by stmw 9mo ago
Thanks, looking into this more now.
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by stmw 9mo ago
I considered the Linux box solution, and fear you're probably right, but it just feels like such a waste... for something that should be so simple with all this Mac Book horse power and Thunderbolt interfaces.
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by stmw 9mo ago
Neat! Well, SCSI is more complicated (than IDE of the times) and the drives themselves are smarter, but that still seems like a long time.
129.
by stmw 9mo ago
Hmm, what I see on Amazon is a lot of USB-to-SATA adapters, not SCSI. eBay has used, old USB-to-SCSI adapters, which is one of the options that's sometimes recommended.
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Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?
20 points by stmw 9mo ago|49 comments
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Counterpoint: Ben Horowitz on Micromanagement (2007)(pmarchive.com)
3 points by stmw 9mo ago|1 comments
132.
by stmw 9mo ago
"While I enjoyed Marc’s post on hiring and firing executives, I think that he unfairly dissed micromanagement."
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by stmw 9mo ago
wow, Mosaic on VMS, who knew! Any more details on the others, what's CK or multicast, does the letter use multicast for HTTP requests?
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Simonyi Hungarian notation in early Mac(folklore.org)
3 points by stmw 9mo ago|0 comments
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NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers(github.com)
12 points by stmw 9mo ago|6 comments
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Cray Customer Service – Memories (1979 to 2014) by Charles Clark(cray-history.net)
3 points by stmw 9mo ago|0 comments
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A Short Guide to Coding: Using the MIT Whirlwind I (1949)(dome.mit.edu)
2 points by stmw 9mo ago|1 comments
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by stmw 9mo ago
"The computer code described here is that of Whirlwind I, an experimental computer using binary digits, single-address order code, parallel operation, and electrostatic storage. It is expected that computers of this type will ultimatel
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by stmw 9mo ago
CEO/founder of Flock has a BS in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Tech, and does not appear to have an MBA.
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MIT Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer (1951) [pdf](dome.mit.edu)
23 points by stmw 9mo ago|10 comments
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by stmw 9mo ago
Also see the much larger digital archive of Whirlwind documents https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1157/...
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Timeline of supercomputers that carried the Cray name(cray-history.net)
2 points by stmw 9mo ago|0 comments
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The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein(press.princeton.edu)
2 points by stmw 9mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 9mo ago
No dispute on the facts about Sun etc. "more than a year before" is not a lot of time in hardware launches, and that was a very dynamic time. Regarding Sun, some good old HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.c
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by stmw 9mo ago
Nicely done - it is good to see some modern, MIT-licensed work on this important wire protocol.
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by stmw 9mo ago
In fairness, I think it wasn't obvious that Motorola would run into so much trouble with the 68k line, or that 80386 would be the far-away winner. Sun and many others were betting on 68k, too.
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by stmw 9mo ago
Perhaps this is something FEMA could try to encourage and lightly enforce. No new technologies needed, just a mandatory "old web" option for key .gov, state and news sites.
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by stmw 9mo ago
This is a good book. Also, any time this kind of book becomes available (be it a 100 year old one or a new one), it is worth looking into - great improvements in isnight and simplicity are possible above the "baseline" of US math
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by stmw 10mo ago
Compiler know-how and resources available during compilations made very signicant progress between gcc and LLVM/clang era. gcc was and is an incredible achievement, but it is traditionally considered difficult to implement many modern
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Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011)(edn.com)
43 points by stmw 10mo ago|4 comments

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