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by housel 6mo ago
I worked for him as well, from 1988 through 1990. He mentored me as I helped sysadmin various BSD machines the university was beta-testing (CCI Tahoe and Gould NP-1), and supervised my work fixing bugs in the Berkeley Pascal compiler. It w
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by housel 10mo ago
The ADM3a was just a UART chip, RAM chips, character ROMs, and a bunch of 74LS chips to glue it all together. No CPU, and no way to generate graphics.
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by housel 10mo ago
Given that it's an essential/definitional issue, I would have preferred that the author at least showed awareness of the differences between languages intended for marking up text and languages intended to represent data in a stru
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by housel 11mo ago
Yes, we overlapped around then.
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by housel 11mo ago
I was a student part-time administrator/systems programmer at the Purdue Engineering Computer Network at the time. Our OS installs had enough local mods (and we had enough non-VAX, non-Sun architectures) that we were immune to some of
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by housel 11mo ago
"clang -Xclang -ast-dump=json" will take you partway there.
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by housel 2y ago
Though "null pointer" and "null value" are correct, for bytes it should be "NUL byte", since ASCII code point 0 is NUL.
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by housel 2y ago
Depends on when "back in the day" was; even in the mid-to-late 80s, especially if you were on a multi-user system, on BSD 4.2/4.3 local and networked printer access went through the Line Printer Daemon (still available on the
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by housel 2y ago
At a previous employer we generated assemblers and disassemblers for various DSP cores based on an Excel spreadsheet that the software tools team shared with the processor architects. The spreadsheet cells described the layout of the variou
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by housel 2y ago
There is the Inkplate ( https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-5 ), which has an ESP32 and so should be just as hackable as a Linux system.
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by housel 2y ago
While I couldn't find any characters with more than three or four readings in this list, the Taiwan list ( https://language.moe.gov.tw/files/people_files/%e5%88%9d%e7%... ) has one character with five readings
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by housel 3y ago
Overall this is helpful, but it seems a bit ranty, and doesn't do as much as (for example) John Day's Patterns in Network Architecture to provide a positive alternative model.
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by housel 4y ago
A lot of Douyin content ends up on YouTube Shorts if you know where to look.
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by housel 4y ago
This is a serious criticism... even if it's not likely to catch on enough to have a real effect on the sea level, it is a complete waste of energy to accomplish something that could be done much more efficiently some other way, if it i
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by housel 4y ago
There's no special "bootstrap compiler"; you can download a binary release for your platform from the page you linked, and then use that to bootstrap a newer version from a source checkout. If it would help, we could provide
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by housel 4y ago
(Open) Dylan is surviving just fine, and we expect to do a new release later this month.
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by housel 4y ago
I think it would be great to experiment with building this sort of thing for an e-ink tablet, adding an enhanced layer of interactivity to by-hand notetaking.
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by housel 4y ago
I have a hard copy of this issue; it predated my subscription to Byte by a couple years, but I was able to purchase it as a back issue some time in the early 80s.
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by housel 4y ago
Fairness doctrine made sense at the time because broadcast spectrum was a very scarce resource. When cable and Internet are available to disseminate a broad range of viewpoints, it's no longer necessary for the FCC to be involved in re
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by housel 4y ago
Supabase is featured in the latest episode of the IEEE SE-Radio podcast: https://www.se-radio.net/2022/05/episode-511-ant-wilson-on-s...
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by housel 4y ago
The name CodeWarrior is now used by NXP for development tools targeting legacy (old Motorola/Freescale) platforms; see for instance https://www.nxp.com/design/software/development-software/cod...
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by housel 4y ago
At that point it was probably the free Franz Lisp that was included in BSD Unix 4.2 or 4.3, which had an interpreter and compiler (with basically MACLISP semantics so it could run Macsyma) on VAX and mc68k platforms. As an undergraduate in
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by housel 4y ago
TeX (and Metafont, and the original Tangle and Weave) were written in Pascal, which is much more rigid with respect to ordering than early C was. The CWEB used for the Stanford Graphbase came later. (Silvio Levy did the initial adaptation o
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by housel 5y ago
I got a TRS-80 Model I when I was 14. For the next four years, I didn't have a disk drive, and was stuck with the 500bps cassette interface for storage. When I finally did get a disk drive, I didn't want to spend $50 purchasing th
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by housel 5y ago
https://maskray.me/blog/ has plenty of solid information on the LLVM and GCC/Binutils toolchains.
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by housel 5y ago
BSD 4.3 still used the Portable C Compiler. By 4.4 Berkeley was starting to use GCC, but that wasn't available in time to incorporate into A/UX. Plus, IIRC the GNU project was actively boycotting Apple at the time, and so Apple wa
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by housel 5y ago
People may also find interesting the Open Dylan project's alternative implementation of an LLVM bitcode writer, https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/master/sources/... and https:/
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China’s social credit program creeps into Canada(sundayguardianlive.com)
4 points by housel 5y ago|0 comments
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by housel 5y ago
No, the Model II had only a 4MHz Z-80. The Model 16 (and later the Model 6000) had a 68k-series coprocessor, and Xenix ran in that (using the Z-80 for I/O).
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by housel 6y ago
Do we know what distribution they use?

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