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iberator··on Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
what are you using it with? hp unix? netbsd?
iberator··on C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
Worth to mention that in the 80" Microsoft was the biggest UNIX vendor with their XENIX operating system:)
iberator··on Principles for Fast Tokio Applications
What the hell is Tokio? Articles mentions it like once I was expecting some programing principles from Japan
iberator··on A 386 PC for Your RP2350
MMU can be emulated as part of emulated architecture. Its totally possible to have software only mmu.
iberator··on NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9
NetBSD holds record for most supported architectures. Like 50 diffrent, while Linux like maybe 20...

Oldest one: VAX780 from 1978(!!!). First 32bit xpu with mmu

iberator··on How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)
I once got raided by the Police for hosting tor node for just literally 3 weeks! (about 5 months later)

Police seized EVERYTHING, and I got my hardware returned to me after like 1 year.

Got caution for sharing pirated software, but they didn't prosecute. It was in the UK.

iberator··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Good antivirus should protect you from such attacks. Even zero day ones.
iberator··on Tmp.0ut Volume 5
Very cool and BBS/hacking style. BUT almost useless on mobile :(

I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.

You could just use <br> instead of fixed length words per line.

iberator··on Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
i meant opoosite. browsing http over gopher
iberator··on Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Please write an article about that French computer Project idea: find 64kb kb of such memory and connect it somehow into Apple2, atari and other 8bit cpus hehe

It must be possible to have some hardware adapter to map RAM into that type of memory.

Or even over serial...

ps. Related story: around 10 years ago Texas Instruments started to use FRAM in some of their 16 bit MCUs (msp430 family)

It works exactly like core memory - data still intact after power resets.

iberator··on Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
This os is supposed to be run on bare metal AFIK for same reason
iberator··on Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it
you should read about ham radio mate... there are some amazing protocols and modulations to save power.

And of course: 7mhz 0.5W transmitter could be heard worldwide... no jokes.

iberator··on How to compromise your system with a job interview
I got my last job and I didn't own a laptop as I was homeless. Had to borrow it from a mate.

It happens:)

iberator··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
I read the article. Worth to read. Questions: which Motorola chip CIA wanted? Same for Intel graphics card.
iberator··on Founder of Chinese property giant Evergrande sentenced to life in prison
Long live the chairman! China seems to be winning. China playing on easy mode tho in comparison to the west. (Authoritarian and centralized government can be VERY effective with applying wherever policy they want)
iberator··on Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
Any working gopher to www proxy?

Using gopher client to load http data.

iberator··on 25 Years of Haiku: From "Ok, Let's Start" to the Present
memory usage, extremely snappy gui,
iberator··on Emacs 31.1 RC1 is available
Emacs is so bad

It has zero intuitive key bindings.

Also i swear that ctrl/tab/shift/alt should be kinda mapped opposite. This editor should be used only with Space-cadet keyboard from 70,80....

Seriously - learning 6502 assembly is easier than to graap those INSANELY bad keyboard layout.

iberator··on Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car
wow. is it legal to capture and process such data?
iberator··on How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser
Amazing and super detailed.

Worth to read

iberator··on Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space.

Vim looks pathetic in comparison to it...

iberator··on Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C
C is the most portable language on the planet.

Literally every single cpu/mcu architecture from the past 40 years supports it.

There are hundreds of such architectures and CPU/MCU types. (x86 is just SINGLE type from maaaaany).

iberator··on Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT
Apple II home computers and TRS-80 are 48.
iberator··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
except Rust is HARD while GO is super easy.
iberator··on Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
how to use it on laptop or Android?
iberator··on Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
someone once bought dozen of google.com bit flipped domains hehe.
iberator··on NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
Voyager runs on assembly. only 10 instructions. Very simple and real RISC processor
iberator··on NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
By simply measuring radio data they measured the size of solar system and density around it. super important subject for future Interstellar travel. same with temperature and radiation levels
iberator··on Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator
Wow. Only 10 instruction set? Looks like father of RISC cpu design
iberator··on Bubble Memory
FRAM is also used in all modern MSP430 microntrollers from Texas Instruments. Amazing technology
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