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by atrn 4y ago
CSP. In hardware.
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by atrn 4y ago
I did a lot of work with transputers and occam in the 1980s and wrote an OS for a machine that used them. The exposure to the CSP way of thinking was a blessing. occam-2 on the other hand was a little too primitive. I remember when Inmos m
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by atrn 4y ago
Not to be confused with the other Helios OS - https://github.com/axelmuhr/Helios-NG
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by atrn 4y ago
https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/go#hdr-Controlling_version_control_wi... Second paragraph.
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by atrn 4y ago
Lots of good links getting posted. Another interesting resource is the ACM's History of Programming Languages (HOPL) proceedings, https://dl.acm.org/conference/hopl/proceedings
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by atrn 5y ago
Putting on my "user" hat, a stack trace is a just a long winded way of saying "ABEND" or "core dumped".
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by atrn 5y ago
I'm still waiting for concurrent COBOL... PERFORM x CONCURRENTLY WITH y BUT NOT WITH z.
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by atrn 5y ago
They had a functioning compiler and decided to concentrate on other areas and it's not too uncommon for a languages's compiler to NOT be written in that language. Afterall Rust relies on the non-Rust LLVM.
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by atrn 5y ago
Same area, many of the same people, but at a different studio, FAME. MSS was a spin off due to various "fights". I did some recording, with Spooner and David Hood, at both places, a few years back. I really liked FAME, the room
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by atrn 5y ago
Did some recording there a couple of years back. Not a bad room but the studio itself is mostly a museum these days and our engineer had to do a bit of work to get it functioning well enough for our purposes. In the area there are a number
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by atrn 5y ago
size(1) exists to provide the actual information. File sizes are only a rough indicator.
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by atrn 5y ago
There were others far before Windows. In the 1980s I used Polytron version control system and the MKS port of RCS on MS-DOS.
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by atrn 5y ago
At home I use buckling springs (Unicomp model M style plugged into an iMac) - I live alone and can make lots of typing noise. In the office its a Filco with some color Cherry switch I forget but its a lot better than the keyboard that cam
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by atrn 6y ago
No beard but it would be grey... A variant of this has been my PS1 since the 90s (yes, mostly on workstations with a GUI by then [Sun,NeXT,HPUX etc...]). Unfortunately bash doesn't like a lone ';' without something before it
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by atrn 6y ago
Reminds (old) me of WSFN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN_(programming_language)
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by atrn 6y ago
A great engineer and hacker. I've recorded (bass) through his circuits numerous times over the decades. I don't know if it was his idea or not but I always loved the Portico 5042 tape emulator. Want the sound of tape? Then run th
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by atrn 6y ago
My Cube cracked the PCBs of two graphics cards before I gave up on it.
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by atrn 6y ago
Related Ampex patent from 1989 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US5236790A/en
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by atrn 7y ago
I really wish Go's select had guard clauses. The need to nil channels feels like a hack. However I haven't actually had much need for them but haven't written many things that would need them. I do miss PAR's synchroniza
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by atrn 7y ago
I did a lot of occam in the 1980s working with transputer-based machines (I wrote a sort of OS for the system our company was building to target TV/film animation). At the time Inmos marketing came up with the line "We want to ma
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by atrn 7y ago
> Text files used ^Z character as end of file marker. But only if the file size wasn't a multiple of the 128-byte block size. Fun!
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by atrn 7y ago
Not just improvising. Its a bit of old gag...if you make a mistake just do it again and pretend you meant it (if its "outside" claim to be playing jazz).
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by atrn 7y ago
And Rucker's "The Hacker and the Ants"
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by atrn 7y ago
This is important and high quality research. It deserves an Ig Noble nomination.
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by atrn 8y ago
Coming from an occam/transputer background (in the 1980s) I felt goroutines were too low level. Luckily its trivial to add a PAR-like construct via sync.WaitGroup (e.g. github.com/atrn/par). That said Go's channels are
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by atrn 9y ago
Ditto. I was a NeXTSTEP developer at the time and when Win95 came out I thought the influences were pretty obvious.
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by atrn 9y ago
And, as always, check out Phong Vo's CDT: https://www.usenix.net/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
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by atrn 9y ago
Have a look for Phong Vo's CDT - container data type - library.
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by atrn 10y ago
transputers had four links and comms beyond that required routing in s/w. I wrote such a thing for a transputer machine. Also, the auto-discovery wasn't really auto... That was the boot code probing for CPUs on other ends of links
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by atrn 10y ago
Sabre C aka Centerline C and later Centreline ObjectCenter (C++). Best C debugging environment I've ever used. I ported the X11R3 server to some custom h/w using it.

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