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by sillywalk 4d ago
https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/ Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (fishshell.com) 906 points by jdxcode on Dec 28, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 198 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by sillywalk 17d ago
Tunetracker[0] radio automation software (not sure what else it did/does) started on BeOS, then moved to Haiku. After 25 years(!)[1] it's on Mac now. [0] https://www.tunetrackersystems.com/ [1] https://
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by sillywalk 20d ago
A couple more articles on them. https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/motorola-intel-ibm-make... https://www.cpushack.com/2013/03/22/cpu-of-the-day-ibm-micro...
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by sillywalk 23d ago
"a base frequency above 5.7 GHz" and 36MB L2 caches. Also, I'm curious if there are any other dual/multi-ISA architecture chips that are really different and not just 64 bit extensions or things like THUMB. I found a 199
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by sillywalk 24d ago
> no native graphics, which is why today the X11 graphics system is being removed and replaced with a new one, Wayland. I'm not disagreeing with your general points, just being pedantic about the "time bits". Wayland has b
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by sillywalk 26d ago
I think it looks like City 17 from Half Life 2 - which I believe was supposed to be a vaguely European City. I think I prefer the ambience of Deus Ex: Human Revolution better. I'd love(? fear) to see a remake of the original Deus Ex in
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by sillywalk 1mo ago
I believe the original Toy Story was 'created' on SGIs, but the render farm was SPARC.
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by sillywalk 1mo ago
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." First European deliveries in 2028. It's sad that the line was shutdown for years, forcing
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by sillywalk 1mo ago
*controllers Too bad Oxide's non-BMC[0] service processor or something similar isn't available on all servers. [0] https://oxide.computer/faq-friday/is-the-oxide-service-proce...
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
> At that stage it shipped with Arthur because, or so we were told, the "actual" OS was still in development. I think this was ARX[0], which was overambitious. Arthur apparently stands for A Risc by THURsday[1] EDIT: a detailed
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
IBM's System/38 / AS/400 / iSeries / i5 / i has had 128bit pointers for its Technology Independent Machine Interface. The System/38 was released in 1980.
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LLVM for OpenBSD/SPARC64(undeadly.org)
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
> play Tux Racer on my very own Z17 Interesting. It looks like Debian has a Tux Racer package for Extreme Tux Racer on s390x. I guess it'd be remote graphics, and not accelerated.
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
Interesting. If it's accurate, Apple sure has a nice markup. Side note: I wished they'd chosen more distinctive colours for the charts.
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
There's a good series of articles on WebForce by the person at SGI who had the idea. Starts here: https://therealmccrea.com/2014/01/09/january-1994-a-very-goo...
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
"Musk promises". Sure. "SpaceX policy regarding data retention. It is actually helpful for debugging issues if we can retain some amount of data, so allowing this would be appreciated, but your privacy settings are always res
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
> one of the few games that supported the non-standard sound card on my parents IBM PS/1. Actually think it might have been bundled with that PS/1 It was. https://pixelatedarcade.com/tech_attributes/overvie
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
> Silpheed by Sierra On-Line for the PC — ported from the Japanese PC-8801 — was similarly good, possibly the first game I played with a proper sound card. I had a similar experience, as it came bundled[0] with the soundcard for my IBM P
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
Link to the 14 page report[0]. The fact that they refused to release the un-redacted report is troubling for many reasons. The most probable on reason they didn't was because the predictions were too dire. Australia had a similar situa
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
After Compaq bought Tandem, they said they were going to port NonStop from MIPS to the Alpha[0], but then cancelled that for Itanium[1]. I'm not sure if NonStop was ported/expanded from 32bit to 64bit when it was running on MIPS.
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
As a lucky kid, I remember watching in awe, a postage stamp size video from a CD-ROM encyclopedia on my 486SX. Around the same time I got to see some Sun SPARCstations with an insane 32MB of RAM!
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
As a side-note, it's interesting that all of the released versions of NT on Alpha were 32 bit. Raymond Chen has a blog post[0] about using Alpha to develop 64bit Windows before Itanium hardware was available. Virtually Fun has some mor
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by sillywalk 2mo ago
It was supposed to make porting PC games easier - Windows CE had DirectX, I'm not sure if it was a subset.
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by sillywalk 3mo ago
I ~~can't~~ won't use the new ( decade+ old? )reddit. From the Reddit Post announcing this, : "In case you are wondering . . . Q: Is Reddit shutting down Old Reddit? A: Not right now! We can’t promise it will be around forev
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by sillywalk 3mo ago
> those big SUNs I'm pretty sure all the big Sun boxes were SMP, not NUMA, at least during the dot-com era. Not sure about later UltraSPARC T or M Series systems.
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by sillywalk 3mo ago
Previous Discussion about QSOE: QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture (qsoe-dev.blogspot.com) 44 points by ymz5 3 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 27 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4863
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by sillywalk 3mo ago
Nitpick: Facebook bought WhatsApp, it didn't make it.
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by sillywalk 3mo ago
It's amazing how many different, incompatible computer systems IBM had back then.
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by sillywalk 3mo ago
The WSJ has a decent article about why it takes so long to build Patriot missiles and increase their production. (It wasn't paywalled for me). https://www.wsj.com/world/why-does-it-take-years-to-get-a-pa...
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by sillywalk 3mo ago
"From the archives, a bit of info on AltaVista: The Hardware Behind AltaVista AltaVista: AlphaStation 500, 256 MB memory, 6GB disk. AlphaStation 500's handle all external traffic to the site. They run a custom multi-threaded Web s

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