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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
I gave your site a mention/link on my Galileo/Turbo Nutter thread yesterday - I still visit your site occasionally, so I'd just like to thank you for all the work you did on that. It really was a very useful and pioneering re
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
The 'Business Case' document to accompany this: https://www.4corn.co.uk/archive/misc/galileo2_Redacted.pdf
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Some background - Galileo was announced as Acorn's successor to RISC OS, although I don't think it was ever demonstrated. A press release from 1997 can be read here: http://www.poppyfields.net/acorn/news/
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
There's a copy held by the Centre for Computing History, at least according to this record: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/20622/Taos-Operating...
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
The newsgroup posts have an enthusiasm to them that makes them enjoyable to read in their own right, especially when they come from beleaguered communities such as the Amiga or Acorn ones. It's a shame that the IP for this OS isn'
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Steve Turnbull, then-editor of The Micro User gave it an interesting and enthusiastic write-up. Beautiful though the RISC OS Desktop was, the underlying technology didn't really hold up in the long run. I still use my RiscPC on a weekl
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Galileo / Turbo Nutter / RiscPC II (1994) [pdf](4corn.co.uk)
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Taos Operating System (1995)(uruk.org)
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
The etymology of the word implies rule by a demos (demos / kratos), a demarcated ingroup of people such as the citizenry of a country. And yet, so many of these 'democratising' technical endeavours keep control of the project
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Isn't that essentially what Leslie Benzies is working on with the 'Everywhere' project?
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
A written record of the decision-making process is also a potential solution to the problem of the human tendency to generate post-hoc rationalisations when asked why a particular decision was made. This is valuable even if the decisions th
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
The paper: https://llm-attacks.org/
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An interview with Ian Bell (2013)(keanw.com)
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Household's income: Where do you fit in? (2022)(ifs.org.uk)
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On the Historical Origin of the “Roguelike” Term (2017)(blog.slashie.net)
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A JavaScript Iambic Pentameter Generator (2018)(blog.homeforfiction.com)
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Microsoft, Sega Collaborate on Dreamcast (1998)(news.microsoft.com)
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
I do have equipment for that but Virgin Media was cheaper at the time that I was setting up when I moved in (new-build) . It's fibre to premises. The result of my call today was an acceptable discount via the UK-based call centre, so I
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
If you don't mind me asking, which pronunciations did they use?
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
I'm currently on the telephone to Virgin Media (a UK domestic fibre-optic broadband provider) and they are certainly making it difficult. This is the annual price renegotiation dance, which requires a call to the helpline, at least thr
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
I like the engine, but the name is essentially one that has no consensus on how it should be pronounced (emphasis on the first syllable, emphasis on the second, or equal emphasis on both). Some background here in the context of the original
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Sometimes hotels and airlines mistake PhDs for medical doctors and give out upgrades... just keep your fingers crossed that there won't be an in-flight medical emergency.
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UK universities draw up guiding principles on generative AI(theguardian.com)
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Perhaps there are still copies on archive.org - I do see a lot of results for my quick search, but I don't know which videos you've seen or whether what I find is the same as what you consider relevant. In any case, here's wh
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
What's the canonical pronunciation of this?
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Kokuhaku: Japan’s Love Confessing Culture (2013)(tofugu.com)
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Is there a way to get this without having to enter personal details into a form?
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Although fish and chips predate the first world war by quite a bit. Let us not overlook the deep-fried Mars bar.
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Chicken Tikka Masala says otherwise.
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
I found the term 'wagon' to be unclear. In the UK, this would be something akin to an articulated lorry, although I am familiar with the American term 'station wagon' so I took it to mean a type of motor car at the very

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