On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:09:25AM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote:
>
> I was cleaning out my "junk room" late last week because I need to put some
> rhododendros seedling under lights in there and came across a 256K S-100 DRAM
> board. Yes, we had S-100 systems that supported that much RAM; hard drives
> too! I come from an IBM mainframe environment, very familiar with punch
> cards. Got a box of 10" reels of 1/2" mag tape (24MB/reel!) I need to toss,
> would if they would be recycled.
>
S100 just-about predates my computer interest (as in, it was
available, but not something I could even dream about affording),
but I thought it was all 8080 or Z80 ? I think I recall a
development of the Z80 which could address more memory (hd64180),
but according to wikipedia that was after the 80286 and probably
after the 80386.
Oh, and I must remember "No, officer, the lights are for my
rhododenron seedlings" :)
> >
> > The book does not recommend building BLFS as root. Those of us who
>
> Yeah, heard that. Made no sense. Everybody makes mistakes, so you prepare
> for them! Why do I need sudo? Protect me from myself? Like I don't know
> the root password?
>
On a bad day (or forgetting *which* machine I'm logged in to, or a
day like today where something is giving me intermittent keyboard
delays) I don't know the root password. But yes, I agree with your
sentiment.
> >
> > More to the point, ISTR make fails *quickly*.
>
> It does for root, but this SSL thing is buried *deep*, in stuff it downloads.
> Not sure what I'm going to do. So I hung a garage side door
> today--amazingly everythhing fitted spot on!
>
Obviously a computer was not involved if it all went perfectly ;)
> > as a user, but I think that was to do with trying to catch dump
> > files when tests segfaulted.
>
> "C 0" I'm not young enough to use a core dump on somebody else's code! One
> of the things "life's too short" for.
>
I was trying to stop my ryzen rebooting during the tests - somebody
else said he had a ryzen and (with systemd) it dumped core but did
not reboot. I had hoped to be able to report the details to
upstream (as distinct from my initial "this reboots" report), but I
got nowhere. No, core dumps are not my thing either, but it did
manage some runs of the tests without rebooting (and still rebooted
on others) - hence what I wrote for rustc-1.25.0 in the book.
> Sounding like an old curmudgeon, I am!
>
Happy Birthday, Yoda.
ĸen
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