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1. 61.▲
   by whobre 8mo ago

   Right, but we are discussing editors here.
2. 62.▲
   by whobre 8mo ago

   They didn't even sue DRI, just threatened to sue: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/history-of-the-gem-...
3. 63.▲
   AArch64 Bitfield Move (BFM) Instruction(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)

   1 points by whobre 8mo ago|0 comments
4. 64.▲
   by whobre 8mo ago

   Xenix 2.1 could run on the IBM PC XT with Intel 8088 in late 1983, IIRC, and even before that on the Altos 586 which had MMU as an external chip.
5. 65.▲
   by whobre 8mo ago

   The language itself is the least of the problems. There is a whole mash of IBM mainframe technologies that is much harder to replace.
6. 66.▲
   They Think(ericsilberstein1.github.io)

   3 points by whobre 8mo ago|0 comments
7. 67.▲
   by whobre 8mo ago

   Kids nowadays. What’s wrong with the 8” floppies? You can even run CP/M 1.4 from them…
8. 68.▲
   by whobre 8mo ago

   > after all, MS-DOS was basically an unlicensed clone of CP/M for the 8086. Eh, not really. The file system was very different and these early operating systems were mostly a file system. The system calls were almost identical…
9. 69.▲
   by whobre 8mo ago

   There was also The Plague of Justinian in the 6th century which may have been more devastating than the Black Death.
10. 70.▲
    Death of Software. Nah(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)

    27 points by whobre 8mo ago|1 comments
11. 71.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    Context matters…
12. 72.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    Not that I disagree, but this is nothing compared to the ".NET" craze in the early 2000s. Everything had to have ".NET" in its name even if it had absolutely nothing to do with the actual .NET technology. There was also
13. 73.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    You probably remember File Control Blocks which are briefly mentioned in the article…
14. 74.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    I actually like Linux and use it exclusively for software development, but for most office and personal tasks it’s windows 11. Once you turn off the adds it’s really fine despite all the screaming online…
15. 75.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    Same here
16. 76.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    > auto main() -> int { Dude…
17. 77.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    People's life choices are their own, but if many people choose to live alone, that objectively affects housing situation in the society.
18. 78.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    And Atari…
19. 79.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    Compared to VAX, of course…
20. 80.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    ClickHouse strings are really binary blobs. The unfortunate name for the type is just causing confusion…
21. 81.▲
    by whobre 9mo ago

    Haha, a Slashdot article about people switching to Linux. Party like it’s 2002.
22. 82.▲
    by whobre 10mo ago

    I wish
23. 83.▲
    by whobre 10mo ago

    Ah, my first Unix. RIP
24. 84.▲
    by whobre 10mo ago

    Kind of. There’s still eZ80
25. 85.▲
    An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)

    3 points by whobre 10mo ago|0 comments
26. 86.▲
    by whobre 10mo ago

    https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#finally
27. 87.▲
    by whobre 10mo ago

    Closer to three years, but yes
28. 88.▲
    by whobre 11mo ago

    Whatever comes pre installed with the device…
29. 89.▲
    by whobre 11mo ago

    And he is going to be right again!
30. 90.▲
    by whobre 11mo ago

    To be fair, pretty soon it will be worth zero.