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by nigwil_ 15d ago
https://github.com/dataphor/Dataphor
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by nigwil_ 2y ago
screen capture of the present day PERQ emulator running a demo shown originally at SIGGRAPH 1982 https://imgur.com/gallery/3-rivers-computer-corporation-perq...
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by nigwil_ 2y ago
Richard Cornwell's emulator is implemented within the OpenSimH framework, and forms the basis of PiDP-10: https://github.com/rcornwell/sims/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-... From the GitHub entry: The KA10 s
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by nigwil_ 2y ago
Or a video introduction if you prefer: https://youtu.be/E0Pp63gsdZI?si=yJCX-CS1T6zsYiLY
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by nigwil_ 3y ago
The reason some of us MTBers switched: a single outing with rim-brakes in wet/muddy/dusty conditions would grind a set of pads to nothing (adding $25+ per outing for replacements), along with the wheel rim being ground thin to the
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by nigwil_ 3y ago
MPW had an interesting About box animation too. I recorded this back in 2011 using vMac emulator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJn3qxK9Br0
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by nigwil_ 3y ago
save a click: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
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by nigwil_ 4y ago
Detailed exposition here: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/B5000_5500_5700/Organick_...
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by nigwil_ 4y ago
I think it is worth mentioning that this was Robert Dewar's second or third Ada implementation (depending on how you want to count them). Robert was involved with the original Ada/Ed implementation from the late 1970s/early 1
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by nigwil_ 4y ago
Excel Versus Excel! EVE...
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by nigwil_ 4y ago
https://pushbx.org/ecm/8086tiny/doc.html
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by nigwil_ 5y ago
Could use Automator with AppleScript: x@Mac-mini-M1 ~ % cat ClearClipboard.scpt on run tell application "System Events" to set the clipboard to "" end run x@Mac-mini-M1 ~ %
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by nigwil_ 5y ago
Unisys has been very supportive of our efforts to find and preserve early Burroughs software and generously provided corporate time to arrange licensing and provide copies of anything they still had. Burroughs B5000 series now has a rich li
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by nigwil_ 5y ago
"In the case of CHERI, this was to change the user-visible abstract machine exposed by hardware in a way that hasn’t been done for mainstream hardware since the PDP-11." - the authors should take the time to familiarise themselves
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by nigwil_ 5y ago
Dave Ackley explores this aspect here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXiqMGhn9rk
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by nigwil_ 5y ago
"PCI-e is descendant from Infiniband which in turn is decendant from ServerNet ..." When you say PCIe descended from IB, at the signalling layer or a higher layer? Can you suggest a starting place to understand this lineage please
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by nigwil_ 5y ago
I asked Wilm in Sep-2020 and three were produced as a one-off build, Wilm did not indicate any intention to produce more.
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by nigwil_ 6y ago
In computing history claims like "first" and "commercial success" need to be qualified and defined, and therein things become difficult since timing and thresholds matter to meet a generally acceptable standard of either
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by nigwil_ 6y ago
IBM AIX (IBM's variant of the UNIX operating system) has long supported IPoFC (IP over Fibre Channel). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX
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by nigwil_ 6y ago
This map from Feb-1978 shows Illiac IV connected to ARPANET (top-left of diagram): https://i.imgur.com/7hSaVVf.png By this time Illiac IV had been connected to ARPAnet since Nov-1975. The Illiac IV had various supporting sy
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by nigwil_ 6y ago
I have been attempting to locate software for the Illiac IV. I corresponded with as many of the people involved with it I could easily find online and with NASA Ames (which has a history office!). I've been looking for software such as
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by nigwil_ 6y ago
Unisys has helped but not unexpectedly the machines we are targeting were end-of-life in the late 1970s and so they did not keep software for them beyond that time.
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by nigwil_ 6y ago
We received some files from Release II.1 (early 1972) but it is missing significant components. After that time we have bits and pieces but nothing complete. We remain hopeful that someone has a distribution tape from the 1970s and we would
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by nigwil_ 6y ago
As a reminder, we are still looking for complete distributions of the Burroughs B6700 MCP releases that include ESPOL/NEWP so we can complete an emulator and preserve this system into the future.
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by nigwil_ 7y ago
Exactly. We have to stop writing more C/C++ one day; can we at least autopilot down our freeways, and eventually colonise Mars on the back of a safe and secure language like Rust. Rust for the Red Planet Rust for the 2020s Mars is cove
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by nigwil_ 7y ago
Several things caught my eye[1], but the moving sidewalk/footpath was a surprise to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway [1] horse drawn fire brigade, difficulty of crossing the busy road, sitting h
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by nigwil_ 7y ago
interesting, someone has refined SETL2 into SetlX; I had not noticed that the SETL wikipedia entry has an entry for SetlX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETL In my other reply in this thread I highlighted the lineage o
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by nigwil_ 7y ago
SETL has an interesting lineage and part to play in the history of computing: The original SETL was implemented in a language known as LITTLE, Dave Shields noted in an email: "SETL was implemented in LITTLE, a language based on FORTRAN
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by nigwil_ 7y ago
Subtitle is a better heading and less border-line click-bait: "Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft did not find the gas in red planet’s atmosphere during its first months of operation"
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by nigwil_ 8y ago
It needs driven wheels. Programmer spaces could be large empty warehouses, these mobile workstations gliding across the open space. If you needed to collaborate you could drive over to colleagues, be latched together for pair programming, a

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