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scruffyherderon When your “public square” is a private company, any sulky billionaire can buy it

It's because we don't actually love the science, it's just what we lkke to say. Elon was the darling until we didn't need him anymore, he talked to the jujitsu guy, and now he is othered.

scruffyherderon When your “public square” is a private company, any sulky billionaire can buy it

Pretty sure the kingdom of Saudi already owns your precious public square.

scruffyherderon Bill Jolitz has died

The autocorrect of dual booting to duel booting really encapsulates the spirit of the era. At that poit tbe #1 feature of OS/2 was the boot manager and the ability to boot into logical drives.

scruffyherderon Bill Jolitz has died

A literal Prometheus has just passed. No matter the disappearance of pushing rocks up hill, he did carry us a booting Net/2 to the lowly i386 PC crowd. We are lucky to have been blessed with his gift.

RIP

scruffyherderon Bill Jolitz has died

The insanity of how they'd take Binutils/GCC and split it up like a BSD tool, and twist it unrecognizably was just so odd.

I'd been collecting old BSD stuff from the era, and even 4.3BSD/Mach is so weird as well, although Tahoe i386 was doomed for not having source available. A larger issue with the platform as it wasn't open and code wasn't contributed back.

scruffyherderon Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne

Taxi drivers in Hong Kong were telling me about some bad flu in the Mainland around Christmas.

It was known in Asia far before it'd been reported in western media.

scruffyherderon The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It

I've been in Hong Kong for nearly 9 years with no DST and it's been AWESOME. DST is absolutely jarring and has the worst aspects of jetlag.

Let it die already, trust me not having it is great.

scruffyherderon Russia deploys a mystery munition in Ukraine

Interesting article but it’s decoy middles not the “cope cages”

scruffyherderon Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

Great idea! Now go through public records and deplatform the deplorables. Use the "off platform behaviour" code that is so very progressive of you.

I hope I have nothing registered with you, but obviously you cannot be trusted.

scruffyherderon The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification

It's legals mistake. Ads have to be run by them. They should have caught it.

scruffyherderon We do not break userspace (2012)

I miss Linus.

scruffyherderon My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years

Have you seen the actual market share? Linux is a fraction of a percentage point.

There is no way this is happening anytime ever since quake iii drummed up zero support.

A hardware platform like the steam deck is the only hope. And I wonder how many will be running windows within a year of launch

scruffyherderon The lost talks from Linus Torvalds at DECUS'94

Thanks! I added them to the archive.org backup

https://archive.org/details/199405-decusnew-orleans

I'm still dismayed I only found out about this by accident, and it was hidden behind a Facebook wall. It's very sad to see stuff like this hidden from public view.

scruffyherderon Study: Omicron 40-45% less likely than Delta to lead to 1+ day hospitalisation

Whatever it takes to reduce the population, as the crash needs to happen to save the planet

scruffyherderon Dungeons and Dragons Is a Case Study in How Capitalism Kills Art

D&D always has been a commercial product of the west.

What did they play in the Soviet Union that was killed by becoming a sold product?

scruffyherderon Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 4: how algorithms are implemented

Works on mine..

scruffyherderon NLP and ASR are used to transform customer conversations

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Isn't NLP some weird manipulation technique?

scruffyherderon Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model?

Whatever it takes to drive them bankrupt asap.

scruffyherderon I wish I'd self-published sooner

Your book was incredibly influential in my early years, and I have to say the number one thing that set it apart from everything else and made it accessible to a 13 year old me is that it was about people. Even the cookie recipe was just that extra humanizing touch.

Your friend was so right

scruffyherderon VAmiga online: Amiga emulator in the browser

https://scriptedamigaemulator.net/

Scripted Amiga has the plus of working with AROS and actual ROMs and on IOS and Android

scruffyherderon Facebook's new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers

Surprisingly meta

scruffyherderon SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows

Check the SDL port or the emscripten

scruffyherderon So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

Imagine in today’s money sinking 12,000 USD on a computer.

Do you take the Macintosh II with A/UX aka Unix from a company that doesn’t seem all too interested in the product themselves and selling what seems like a toy or do you go with SUN? They hired Bill Joy, and they are 100% committed to Unix?

They simply cost too much for a non commital company like Apple. If anything it’s amazing they saw it through to the end of the Quadra

scruffyherderon So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

Cayman must be Cayman Systems (Cambridge, MA).

I'd seen this zip file floating around for well over a decade, maybe quite a bit longer. It was amazing to see someone write enough glue for an emulator to actually boot it. It's even more crazy to get 3.0.1 to mount it under Qemu and do a full build in 17 seconds... I can't even imagine how long it took to build this back in the day!

Apparently above Milwaukee has something to do with Gasse and the BigMac Jr.

I wonder what ever happened to Unisoft's unix business. I've always wanted a SYSV but they seem impossible to buy. Best I have is a non commercial SYSIII from SCO before they 'gave 32v' and lower away but it's all so murkey if they could give anything away but I think they could sublicense for a fee (best $100 ever!)

scruffyherderon So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

I chose to introduce it slowly setting where it came from. I wasn't aiming to write an encyclopedia entry. Otherwise it'd be a one liner.

Can't please them all.

scruffyherderon So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

this is the 'emaculation' windows build:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/4BSD%20under%20...

decompress and run the batch file.

I didn't bother installing X11 as anything else is a better X11 than the one mouse button Mac.. I enabled TCP/IP and you can telnet in on 127.0.0.1 42323

Enjoy!

scruffyherderon So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

newer Qemu can emulate the 68040, and even a Quadra 800. that would be the much easier route...

scruffyherderon So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

without the full source it's impossible to say. That said there was a 'tar ball' of 0.7 floating around for well over a decade, but it's able to run under emulation now.

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/aux-apple-unix-68k-version-...

there is a /usr/lib/greenhillls with a ccom68 fcom68 and pcom68 along with some libs and crt files. It's all binaries but I did a compare on crt0 and they match the system one. Maybe it's just a case of the crt0 being assembly and it being.. well the same assembler.

Maybe they were just investigating PCC vs Greenhills or it was a cross thing, or they built PCC with Greenhills. who knows?!

scruffyherderon So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

It's SYSVr2 so it's /etc/inittab to control what runs at what runlevel. then inetd reads /etc/servers to decided what to listen for at the network level.

scruffyherderon So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?

Out of the box running strings on stuff shows the 1984-1985 AT&T-IS 1985-1987 UniSoft Corporation strings.

So it's got to be PCC.

The F77 credits Apple, Adobe, AT&T-IS, Motorola, SUN, CSRG, and Unisoft.

In the A/UX 0.7 build there is a 'greenhills' marker in crt0.o and libc so it looks like they used greenhills before switching (self hosting?) to pcc?