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Good articles, I agree that there isn't enough technical articles about reverse engineering like this, it's an interesting hobby.
Exceptions can be made if justified, not dug into the details of how that works.
Utterly useless.
From there it seems to have spread out into a "recap everything" craze that is just silly.
UN/LOCODE tends to have an abbreviation for most places.
So nice that the machines are out, powered on and ready to be tinkered with. Sit down and relive the old days by hammering out some 6502 assembly or something :)
I usually put it as "Deep inside windows is a really beautiful OS just screaming to be let out from under all that junk on top."
The NT kernel isn't that bad, different from unix for sure but still good. It then just keeps getting progressively worse as you go upwards in the stack from there.
Small meanwell unit and a transformer should do the trick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQE-rmo8XM for example.
The Swedish monarch has no power at all in the Swedish Grundlag (constitution). He is the titular head of state, holds a few honorary military titles and opens the government every year.
It's a marketing function, nothing more. He has no power over the election process, legal system etc.
It's not automatically solely owned by the company.
That said, most library routines would then store the register contents on the stack and restore on return so not sure it's more efficient for memory access etc.
The m68k is the most CISC of ISAs I've seen, you have plentiful addressing modes and register orthogonality. It had adressing modes to do auto postincrements/predecrements, indirect indexed accesses and all sorts of fun.
Funny how we've gone from court order to intercept somebodies mail to this...
MIT style licenses are about freedom for the programmer to do as they want, not code freedom. GPL is all about the freedom of the code, at the cost of freedom for the programmer to do as they want.
I've gone the same route myself, from BSD style on earlier things to GPL on most things I do now. I'm still looking for a good license to apply to hardware projects though.
It's kind of a gray area for me at least, does it mean you own a copy or not? I'm sure it doesn't but I also know that legal system do not generally deal in shades, they are binary, either a or b.
If it legally means that you own a copy, this would in theory allow you to patch the online checking out of it to keep it running.
He truly showed that affordable computing is possible and in my mind also inspired the large home computer "cottage industry" in the UK.
Kudos and may you long be remembered.
Long read but well worth it for interested people.
Kind of like Belgium over here in Europe, which is usually say is not so much a country as it is a cold civil war :)
It would dynamically calculate a minimum window size based on the components inside and you could then resize the window as you wanted with things calculating and resizing as you go, adapting to font selections and themes.
The actual implementation is archaic by todays standards but it did use attributes on UI objects to determine min/max sizing and other things, similar to CSS in concept.
They also were not developed by the same company. 3.5 and 3.9 were developed by Haage & Partner, 3.1.4 and 3.2 were developed by Hyperion Entertainment.
There's even an AmigaOS 4.0 from Hyperion which is PowerPC only.
For extra bonus points, there's MorphOS which is a heavily AmigaOS influenced OS. PowerPC only, runs on some of the older PPC Macs.
And there's also the open source AROS reimplementation of AmigaOS 3.1 (with a lot of extras).
(I'm sure I got a lot of details wrong, been years since I last did Amiga stuff.)
IPSec is somewhat similar to how wireguard work actually, it relies on IPs and static encryption keys. Not too hard to configured, see for example the manual keying documentation of slackware: https://book.huihoo.com/slackware-linux-basics/html/ipsec.ht...
ISAKMP/IKE is then used on top to manage the IPsec keys and parameters. This is where a lot of the complexity comes in, tons of parameters, modes, etc. etc.
So if all you want is to secure communication between two IPs and can securely exchange key material out of bands, manually keyed IPsec is not very complicated.
For me personally I have a bit of a dislike for GNU software in general because of the same type of things. It's all autotools and legacy code being dragged around. Don't get me wrong, I fully appreciate the GNU project and how much they have done; I just don't like their code very much.
On a larger scale the Bazaar suffers from not having managers paying people to do boring things. This leads to boring things generally not being done as much, people on their own wants to work on interesting things.
Logical systems still sell their NuVAX machines, see https://logical-co.com/product/nuvax-4400-system/
They also do PDP/11 systems and hardware.
I think they might be built using an emulator on PC hardware with some interfacing hardware, but still I would call it a "new" VAX for most purposes.
Proper setup for audio/video: Sony a6000, Yamaha MG10X, Rode NT-1A, etc. etc.
Mini revamp of the kitchen to add more storage cabinets.
Mine could even do 800x600 at 160Hz, my first experience with high refresh rates. Felt like I could grab the windows and pull them out of the screen.
I know of three such projects at the moment:
J-CIA: https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/
FBI: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/84273-wip-fbi-als-er...
VHDL6526: https://github.com/bwack/VHDL6526
The 6526 CIA from the C64/128 is almost identical to the 8520 from the Amiga, the only difference is in the time-of-day clock registers. The 6526 uses BCD encoded TOD, the Amiga 8520 counts seconds since midnight.