opless

Sorry, but I guess you had to be there to have that knowledge?

The modern usage of it adds compression, which you have to undo first before doing your archive operations ;)

Zip was > tar (and cpio) in that regard because you didn't have that two step process and only had to have enough spare disk space for the extracted file, rather than extracted file + decompressed tar

Tape drives were relatively expensive to floppy disks.

> Scan from the back, find the end-of-central-directory-record and then use it to read through the central directory, only looking at things the central directory references.

It was pretty obvious 30 years ago that this was the correct way to unzip. Streaming content wasn't even a thing back then (dialup being a luxury). It was the only way to ensure that a self extractor could work reliably.

I'm blessed to not have clients like that!

Most zoom calls can easily be an email ;)

I could be anywhere in the world. Even nextdoor to you ;)

You and GP still would be deluded however.

Bitcoins "value" it that it's a pyramid scheme along time, early "investors" profit when they get out. Market cap means nothing when you run out of difficulty ;)

Anyhow I'll leave you to your delusions and get on with my life. Toodle-oo!

Sorry

1. No one wants a nuclear reactor in their back yard

2. Making a safe nuclear reactor takes skilled engineers

3. The only country with those skills in europe are in france (The UK folk have all mostly retired now)

4. Oil companies have been known to fund the likes of Greenpeace and CND to promote fear about nuclear power/weapons

5. Nuclear has a longer ROI than Fossil fuels, but rapidly overtakes the profits when it reaches ROI Investors want to make a quick buck.

6. Investment into safer nuclear reactors has been choked for many of the above reasons

7. Even without reprocessing, nuclear is an order of magnitude less damaging to the environment than Oil/Gas

Returning to an office is my idea of hell though. Getting I'll because some random employee won't take the time off or WFH because they have a cold/flu/covid is plenty enough reason to say "no"

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/blog.html

https://human-competitive.org/

There’s also a low volume GP mailing list

I wonder when it was put up, it took me a while to track the original down

License-wise on the site it says: > You can use it for anything you want

Which implies “public domain”, and …

https://github.com/opless/small-prolog-walnut-creek-original

And on the copy on the Walnut Creek CD it explicitly says;

These diskettes contain a public domain Prolog interpreter called Small Prolog version 2. In the USA the C User's Journal will have the latest releases.

It has been compiled on an PC clone, on UNIX and on an Atari ST.

Is a copy of the PD prolog used in the PNP system in NT

More details (and probably where the original article was sourced from) http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/extending-c-with-prolog/184409294

Finally a good write up by Microsoft themselves

https://web.archive.org/web/20040603192757/research.microsof...

You move off that kernel version, no BSP, no boot. sad times.

This is one reason why you don't get android phones supported past the android release shipped.

You're completely at the mercy of the SoC provider. Promises of 'n' years support are quite often quietly dropped after 18 months, when they realise all the engineers have moved to working madly to get the latest SoC's BSP out of the door.

Rinse and repeat.

Literally. Tacky. Like 20 year old rubberised plastic going rotten.

I felt compelled to buy a passport cover so I wasn't grossed out by the cover.