gh
battery life for a weekend of use without a charge. The Psion keyboard
at least lives on and is still relevant today.
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Demo of the radically different, 32-bit, RISC-based, Psion 5:
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glamour."
(Charles Stross, /The Fuller Memorandum/)
They're very shiny. They do a lot.
But I had a better *phone* and a better *PDA* 20 years ago. The whole
is much less than the sum of its parts.
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nd for them to get a whole contact
instantly by wireless was deeply impressive to them.
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t-in feature of the Psion range of PDAs. The address
book app could dial any number in the address book, merely by holding
it up to the phone mouthpiece.
It blew people's minds at the time (very early 1990s).
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This just came up on Fess Bouc. I did not know that it existed.
It's an LLVM-backed modern compiler for BLISS.
https://madisongh.github.io/blissc/
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is nothing but false positives.
FWIW, I had no clue either. I was hoping to work it out from context.
No joy so far.
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ou can see Puma's logo in some of the
photos and it was mentioned in the eBay ad.
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de.com/comic/2008/03/12/the-case-of-texas-vs.-kryolord
A bit of the story:
https://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/district-attorney-on-trial-for-building-monster-gaming-rig-with/
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do it again? Have you decided
to change?
Look, *I* am someone who has, justly, been told off for being rude and
dismissive here. I very much fear that I have caused people to quit
the list, and I bitterly regret that.
But I have tried hard to *learn* from that, and I do not want to do it again.
Wherea
AFAICS.
Please stop digging that hole you're in.
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I have _never_ heard that term and have no idea what it means.
Don't be so glib. It looks bad on anyone.
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On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 12:02, John Many Jars via cctalk
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> I just run PUTR under DosBox on a modern PC. A pain but... easier.
Can that read/write physical media?
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ed partition, format it with FAT16; then
you'll have hard disk space you can write from DOS.
* install NTFS drivers on your DOS boot disk.
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> Very nice photos although I am confused by some. Some of them appear to
> be moving but a lot of stuff stays still. What is happening??
Please bottom-post on the list.
It looks to me like an Apple "live photo"
it. It works
well, the ISO is a free download from Microsoft, and it's perfectly
usable without activation.
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DEC archival docs tell the story of the genesis of the PDP-1:
https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/timeline/pdp-1story.htm
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> So, that's my "trip report".
Great reading. Thanks for that!
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as Word 95 or Word 6
for NT, but they use an older file-format modern WPs can't import.
A late version of WordPerfect for DOS *might* do it... I have WP6.2
for DOS running on PC DOS 7.1 and it runs fine on modern hardware. I'm
not confident, though.
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rnational shipping. You do
not specify where you are; I am in Czechia.
However I have an SE/30 and I don't need 2...
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 12:24, Jonathan Katz wrote:
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> Some google shows BCL=Business Computers Limited (potentially)
Foolishly I didn't read the comments first.
It's one of these:
http://www.ps8computing.co.uk/bcl.html
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I don't recognise this, but I'm no expert.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113665872765
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-disk-controller disks (e.g. Mac 400/800 kB and Amiga disks)
that were written in fairly standard drives.
Step 4 is when you get to all the non-hard-sectored drives and so on...
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y I click a link and
get a blanket "sorry, no" message.
Also applies to lots of Youtube videos: I just get a "video
unavailable" message.
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That was meant to say...
Or:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/
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. .
>
>
> Heard about the NSA Utah Data Center?
> https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
> That's a LottaBytes!
O_o
Reminds me... I should buy a few more tibs, consolidate and rearrange
some stuff.
I wonder why megs and gigs caught on, but there's no common shorthand
for terab
ne capacity comparator thing.
You'd need a pile of those Seagate drives the size of a _space
shuttle_ to hold a terabyte.
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/53353.html
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Tw
y default. Possibly because then
the disk wouldn't boot on different IDE hardware -- bear in mind this
was before Windows activation, so an install could just be duped onto
another machine. But if the other machine didn't have Triton chipset,
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ok them,
I would not use _any_brand of disk. Everyone who's been around a bit
has a horror story and the intersection in the Venn diagram, while
small, excludes all vendors ever.
I've never seen any one make that is significantly worse than any other.
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te an
analog monitor signal.
Amazing little gadget. I have a PCB and plan to try to build one.
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IX, Linux and IBM i.
Silly name, though.
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fore I re-invent the wheel?
I believe something like it is a built-in feature of Win10.
But of course that almost certainly means there are well-documented
hacks and workarounds.
Getting built-in is the reason that $DAYJOB-3 killed its
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110 years old, and still apt.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/
I first encountered it in the form of one of the AI Koans. I guess
these are probably familiar to all here, but in case:
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~wiseman/humor/ai-koans.html
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right now. Just hit Ctrl-A, trim as needed and move the cursor. Yes,
it's a pain on mobile, so I try not to answer on mobiles!
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unning NetBSD 8 with gcc 5.5.0 :)
>
> https://www.ioccc.org/1984/mullender/hint.html
As is right, proper, faintly alarming, and additionally justifies one
of the core plot ideas of Vernor Vinge's novel /A Deepness in the
Sky/. :-D
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https://tantobieinternettattler.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-amstrad-nc100-portable-perfection.html
I have one of these myself -- my piece about it (and some its kin) is
here... https://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/11/10/portable_writing_tool/
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s, that's right, a PDP-11 emulator for the PDP-7 -- and
on that, it runs Unix v6, on which it can run the first ever
obfuscated C contest winner.
I found it quite astonishing.
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eeling slightly depressed too.
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https://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/hint.html
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ew pay any attention to any technology without an interesting name.
Well, quite.
> And of those who do and the rest, never the twain shall meet.
I think we've all missed that twain now.
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se Anglophones mostly can't pronounce /b/ followed by
/h/, if you ask for "bindi baji" instead of "bhindi bhaji" you do not
get a forehead jewel shaped like an okra pod.
So you could say "I'm going down t'bunker" and to the untrained ear it
would sound like "
ot understand
complexities such as filtering, rules, quoting, signatures etc. For
them, web fora are easier. Personally, I find web fora almost totally
unusable and treat them as a last resort.
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are of what that acronym means, yes?
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 18:52, Grant Taylor via cctalk
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> On 12/19/2018 10:45 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > 80186?
>
> I really thought it was 8x86 where the x was 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.
:-o
No no, never.
But there was the i860 and i960 as well, remember. And the
; the 8086 (or was it 8088, which is still in the 8x86 family) and the
> Pentium.
They didn't.
8088, 8086, 80286, 80386DX, then 80386SX, 80486, Pentium.
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lable -- and I did sell everything I possibly could.
5¼" HD floppy drives -- if Fred will spare me, PC-AT style 1.2 MB
drives -- fetched $30--$40 each, and I had at least half a dozen of
'em.
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ows era, and for them, period kit is
the best way to play them.
I personally think it's barking but then I am not much of a gamer.
> Are you feeling old yet?
Nah, I'm used to it.
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t's a "true" PS/2 with MCA. I hope to get an old version of OS/2 2 or
3 going on mine some time.
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; floppy drives.
So yes, there is a little bit of demand, I reckon. Not highly
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that it was no
longer anything to do with its actual name.
So conflating 3 entirely unrelated Ems together, and the facetious
ETLA-style *fourth* Em, was, ISTM, a facetious reference to this.
It seemed like a laudable goal at the time.
Now, we all have them, and we've totally squandered that power. It is
c/Sun-Microsystems-Inc
FWIW, no pic for me in that article.
But yes, I skim-read the wikipedia page and got the wrong impression.
I've already confessed and apologised in this thread.
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It's a bit late, isn't it?
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 19:30, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
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on further
reading, e.g.
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-graphics-music-and-art/15/218/615
, only narrowly.
I think I scanned the Wikipedia article too quickly this morning...
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ine. I didn't know that. That alone means that it's
not really what I think of when I think of a Sun workstation: no
windowing system means that for me it's not really a workstation.
But as a single-user Unix machine, yes, it unquestionably qualifies,
and I need to redefine my terms and my thinking a little...
efinition of a Sun workstation is,
if it excludes a 680x0 machine with Unix and a big monochome bitmap
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I thought folk might enjoy this short-ish (~12min) Youtube video
showing startup of arguably the first ever Sun workstation, from a
contemporaneous SunOS... I did.
Permission obtained before x-posting, naturally.
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te of AAD
> and AAM instructions actually being an immediate argument that could have
> a value different from 10, have become standardised at one point.
I know, and was surprised that, v86 mode isn't supported in x86-64.
This caused major problems for the developers of DOSEMU.
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4, plus embedded objects, graphics. I'm thinking PDF or the
like as my model.
Try to collapse all these into one and you're doomed.
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know
how to do this.
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ually weaknesses
at all but indeed strengths for a lot of its use-cases.
Saying that, I'd really like to read more about this project. It
looks like it peripherally intersects with one of my own big ones.
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 23:39, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
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> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 03:44, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
> > If it's in Roman, Cyrillic, or Greek, they're alphabets, so it's a letter.
> >
> Correct, Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic are alphabets, so eac
quot;, "old mail",
"programs do", and "adapt to".
*And*
#4 _You_ appear to have some "very old mail program" (to use your own
phrase) because it is screwing up your posting _and_ screwing up
double spaces.
So it is you causing the problems here, I'm sorry to say.
íkova, but it does
> look like things came through just like you describe. (They even made
> it through my shell script that I use to re-flow text in replies.)
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t; update broke the Correct-Identity add-on. :-(
Well yes.
I believe Mr Corlett here rejects all mail from gmail.com -- except mine... ;-)
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> Turn off trashing mails with Unicode in Subject and see if this solves
> a problem?
*Loud laughter in the office*
Well _played_, sir!
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ne space is enough.
Look, we haven't even been able to get him to quote correctly, so I
suspect changing his typing habits is right out!
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r and heavy
black-rimmed spectacles.
So the first time that I used an emulated VAX over a serial line from
a real DEC terminal, I was struck by how the experience was 100%
faithful to the original.
P.S. Please bottom-post, will you?
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> Well, how DID they make panels?
Letraset? :-)
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> In my experience, games written for CGA and 80286 do not do well on modern
> equipment.
This is why DOSBox exists.
https://www.dosbox.com/
It's a DOS PC emulator for modern PCs, mainly for playing old games.
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have swallowed
> that.
Right, then go learn a bit about it. You need that to understand this
subject properly, I submit.
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 04:14:34PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> Very true, but if someone promises and does not deliver, who is he?
[1] A marketing person?
[2] Behav
benefits or
improvements. It's just a bit of a different spin on GNOME 3, making
it slightly more Mac-like, without being Mac-like enough to interest
me. :-)
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e guess -- do you also worry about chemtrails and
fluoride in the water?
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fine on Windows, and there's no X.11 in Windows.
Jim, you seem awfully convinced of this stuff, but as others are
telling you, you have it almost all wrong. :-(
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rmity" and the way it
"feels more integrated" in ways that are completely imperceptible to
Linux folk.
Since my formative IT experiences were outside of the Unix world --
CP/M, VAX/VMS, Acorn RISC OS and finally OS/2 -- I come from a
different tradition and I'm still not really comfor
ml
https://siliconangle.com/2017/09/05/oracle-layoffs-signal-end-life-sparc-solaris-products/
https://www.itprotoday.com/software-development/new-oracle-layoffs-probably-signal-end-line-solaris
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fringement of the
> same laws."-HHGTTG
Speaking as a former president of the official Douglas Adams fanclub,
I am deeply honoured by the comparison. :-D
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 19:05, Grant Taylor via cctalk
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> On 10/23/2018 10:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > This may be an unfortunate mismatch of English idioms.
>
> Fair.
>
> > "Out there", to me, means "current, available/on sale/in use
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 19:12, ben wrote:
>
> On 10/23/2018 4:33 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 21:19, ben via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >> Try and find a printed page size PDF
> >> reader, or one a tad smaller. Reading a PDF on a KINDLE DOES
is how I have been experimentally assembling GNUstep desktops for
years now.
My favourite minimalist no "desktop" /per se/ distro is Crunchbang --
you might want to look at BunsenLabs or Crunchbang++.
Another comparable option is Tiny Core Linux, but I haven't tried it myself.
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NOME 3 to be frustrating to the level of shouting incoherently
at my computer within half an hour. Ditto KDE (any version >1.x).
Others like them.
Chacun à son goût.
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 17:49, Grant Taylor via cctalk
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> On 10/23/2018 04:41 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > It's pointless to compare environments from _before_ Win95 as a way of
> > saying that Win95 didn't influence them!
>
> Your statement that I replied to is:
>
t want to see people trying to do something different...
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; anyone outside Apple and its partners to create native apps.
I think you should read this:
https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 22:54, Grant Taylor via cctalk
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> On 10/22/2018 08:14 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > *Every* Unix desktop out there draws on Win95.
>
> Nope. That's simply not true.
>
> The following three vast families of window managers /
d example of a GUI with no icons. It is text-based -- a
TUI -- but graphical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)
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dle-DX-Wireless-Reader-3G-Global/dp/B002GYWHSQ
https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Globally/dp/B0015TG12Q
One of the main reasons I got it is that it renders PDFs well and a
lot of important computer history books and the like are only readily
available as PDFs.
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concept a bit far, while the Lisa
> got what would become the modern ubiquitous version of the concept almost
> dead on. Did I get this approximately right?
I'd say you're pretty much bang-on.
> Are there any other GUI desktop metaphors that predates this?
Not that I'm aware of.
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 18:58, Rick Bensene via cctalk
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> Liam Proven wrote:
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>
> >On the one hand, the cosmetics. *Every* Unix desktop out there draws
> >on Win95.
>
> I take exception to the "*Every*" in Liam's statement above.
I think you
released that only ran on the PCWs, directly driving their 720*256 res
screen in graphics mode or a few in 90*32 text mode.
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iginal Real Thing™ _far_ better than the modern
reproductions. I think he will agree with me.
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 21:01, ben via cctalk wrote:
> Is just me, but is keyboad input geting slower and slower on web stuff,
> even the old 110 buad tty gave better response running under a PDP/8.
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Summary: no, it's not just you.
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Considering the layers of hacks below the surface, Win9x was amazingly
stable and reliable, and used by more people than all iterations of
all other GUI OSes of the times up to then put together. It spawned
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