Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-02 Thread Tony Aiuto via cctalk
You are conflating the OS kernel with the developer A On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 10:11 AM Liam Proven via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 04:21, Tony Aiuto via cctalk > wrote: > > > > I would argue that this is totally wrong. iOS, > > Which is a Unix. Derived from Mac

RE: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-02 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Zane Healy via > cctalk > Sent: 02 August 2021 04:24 > To: William Donzelli > Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boar

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Aug 1, 2021, at 5:51 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > >> z/OS runs on IBM Mainframes, there is also “IBM i”, which was previously >> called OS/400. >> >> Last I checked, GCOS-8 is still running, but with Itanium end-of-life, I’m >> not sure what on. It’s been a niche market for decades.

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-08-01 1:14 p.m., Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: On Aug 1, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: CP/M is surprisingly alive for something so old and rudimentary and seeing some activity, e.g. CPMish, but I don't think anyone would claim it has much of a future. CCP/M is dead a

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> And that like IBM still being able to run S/360 programs Unisys 2200 > can still run Univac 1100 programs. And that MCP and OS2200 put everyone else to shame in the security arena... Because they thought about it back in the 1960s. -- Will

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 8/1/21 8:51 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: z/OS runs on IBM Mainframes, there is also “IBM i”, which was previously called OS/400. Last I checked, GCOS-8 is still running, but with Itanium end-of-life, I’m not sure what on. It’s been a niche market for decades. I’d argue that it w

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> z/OS runs on IBM Mainframes, there is also “IBM i”, which was previously > called OS/400. > > Last I checked, GCOS-8 is still running, but with Itanium end-of-life, I’m > not sure what on. It’s been a niche market for decades. I’d argue that it > was a serious niche when I was using it in th

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 8/1/21 11:45 AM, brainded ben via cctalk wrote: I suspect if they had the proper virtual memory, it would have been picked up as a Unix cpu Pull your head out of your ass. Unisoft had a very profitable business porting Unix to 68000 computers (note, NOT 68010) The Apple Lisa's 68000 ran Uni

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Would the 68K have succeeded if it were not for Apple and Commodore? Without your engineering expertise, I would still say, "YES". (I was reading Infoworld, etc., as compared to you designing the machines) Before we heard anything about Apple

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 8/1/21 11:45 AM, ben via cctalk wrote: > I suspect if they had the proper virtual memory, it would have been picked > up as a Unix cpu, instead. It is the only common non segemented 16 bit > cpu I can think in that time frame. There were ways around that. You could run two, with one slightly

RE: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of ben via cctalk > Sent: 01 August 2021 19:46 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What > We Have Lost" > > On 2021-08-01 12:32 p.m., Chuck Gu

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 1, 2021, at 2:45 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: > > On 2021-08-01 12:32 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > >> Would the 68K have succeeded if it were not for Apple and Commodore? >> --Chuck > I suspect if they had the proper virtual memory, it would have been picked > up as a Unix cpu,

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2021-08-01 12:32 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Would the 68K have succeeded if it were not for Apple and Commodore? --Chuck I suspect if they had the proper virtual memory, it would have been picked up as a Unix cpu, instead. It is the only common non segemented 16 bit cpu I can thin

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 8/1/21 10:52 AM, ben via cctalk wrote: > On 2021-08-01 11:17 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > >> The lack of interest in the classic/vintage computing segments is a bit >> surprising, since many of these MCUs far exceed the computing power of >> many legacy platforms. >> >> Silicon is chea

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2021-08-01 11:17 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: The lack of interest in the classic/vintage computing segments is a bit surprising, since many of these MCUs far exceed the computing power of many legacy platforms. Silicon is cheap. Only with good marketing, and lucky designs like the

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 8/1/21 9:14 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > On Aug 1, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: >> CP/M is surprisingly alive for something so old and rudimentary and >> seeing some activity, e.g. CPMish, but I don't think anyone would >> claim it has much of a future. CCP/M is dead

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Aug 1, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > CP/M is surprisingly alive for something so old and rudimentary and > seeing some activity, e.g. CPMish, but I don't think anyone would > claim it has much of a future. CCP/M is dead although I think Toshiba > just about supports 4680 an

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 04:21, Tony Aiuto via cctalk wrote: > > I would argue that this is totally wrong. iOS, Which is a Unix. Derived from Mac OS X, which is an Open Group certified UNIX™. > Android A Linux distro. > and other mobile > systems, QNX as in Blackberry 10? A Unix. Jolla Sailfish

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-07-31 Thread Tony Aiuto via cctalk
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 9:21 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 7/27/21 4:27 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > This was a talk at a recent Chaos Computer Club congress: > > https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost#t=1707 > > > > « We have ended up in a w

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-07-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 7/27/21 4:27 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: This was a talk at a recent Chaos Computer Club congress: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost#t=1707 « We have ended up in a world where UNIX and Windows have taken over, and most people have never experienced anything else. Ove

Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-07-27 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
This was a talk at a recent Chaos Computer Club congress: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost#t=1707 « We have ended up in a world where UNIX and Windows have taken over, and most people have never experienced anything else. Over the years, though, many other system designs have co