davidgnz

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by davidgnz 2mo ago
> Buy a plethora of studios IIRC Xbox had been criticized for quite a while at that point for having very few exclusive/first-party games worth buying an Xbox for. I always assumed this move was to try and fix that problem.
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by davidgnz 3mo ago
At least someone on the Google Pixel team finally discovered a map with New Zealand on it, and Pixel phones can now place calls over LTE here!
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by davidgnz 4mo ago
I think NLMs are effectively kernel modules. No memory protection, and only cooperative multitasking. So I doubt there were much in the way of limits on what an NLM could do. I think they were usually developed in C. Metrowerks had a compil
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by davidgnz 2y ago
Good thing they still offer a $10 product then - the Raspberry Pi Zero.
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by davidgnz 2y ago
Thats the DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project. Its a set of patches for the Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 kernel. The license file inside the original Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 source archive says: "Caldera grants you a non-exclusive license to
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by davidgnz 2y ago
DR-DOS hasn't been open sourced. Caldera did release the source for the kernel and a few other bits, but the license only allowed free use for evaluation purposes. After 90 days (for a company) or "a reasonable period" for no
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by davidgnz 2y ago
OpenDOS isn't open-source, its source-available. The license reads more like trial software: "Caldera grants you a non-exclusive license to use the Software in source or binary form free of charge if your use of the Software is fo
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by davidgnz 3y ago
The Multia used the cut-down LCA4 or LCA45 (Low Cost Alpha) CPU, the 21066 or 21066A. These apparently performed worse than the more expensive EV4 or EV45 parts. Also, the compilers on Windows NT were from DEC, at least to some extent. In