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lproven
8,777karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.
# Work
Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.
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Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com
# Personal
Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.
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Reminds me of Xv6:
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2020/xv6.html And of course there's Fuzix:
http://www.fuzix.org …
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I always wished that XPostFacto, the tool for installing early versions of Mac OS X on unsupported Macs, supported the Daystars. https://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto&#x…
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Oberon. :-) It's the granddaddy of all of them. Overview:
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/ Academic paper (but highly accessible):
https…
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I tend to share your thinking on this, although at least one knowledgeable online-imaginary-friend vigorously disagrees with me. I have looked but failed to find a VM image or even images of installab…
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Oh yes. This is one of my favourite spin-offs:
https://ultibo.org/
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So, what tool?
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By all means please do educate me on what I am not seeing. I once saw a British OS, Symbian, used around the world. I saw a Finnish company's phones used around the world. A little British comput…
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(Blogpost author/submitter here.) It's a fair cop. It was only a blog post, dashed off on the basis of a FB comment that grew overlong. :-) I do not have a coherent thesis that I was expound…
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(Blogpost author/submitter here.) A small objection: Java came out of Sun, a Californian company. It would seem to me to be as American as Solaris, NeWS, SMF or vi. No?
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Blogpost author/submitter here. It's a fair point. It is not a blind spot -- I did think about it, but I don't think I have ever owned an Asian-designed computer or used Asian-designed …
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Yes, I understood that, but to this native English speaker, the expanded phrase is meaningless.
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Er, no. In English, it does not mean anything at all. "Prime" is the analagous English word, I would think, and it is not a superlative. One would not say "that's prime" of so…
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This is very interesting. Thanks for the insight. You go into more depth than I've seen before. Have you ever looked at the 65C832? It never made it to production but there are detailed specs and…
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The 994A had amazing potential but TI crippled it too far. What it should have been able to grow into was the Geneve 9640.
https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/Geneve_9640 I'd …
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If you want a modern BASIC experience, Risc OS Pico on a RasPi Zero is a very good one. 1GB flat memory space, a blindingly-fast 32-bit structured BASIC with local variables, named procedures, IF...TH…
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Didn't get a single one. uBlock Origin, with cookies warning suppressed.
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• I had a client with a Novell IntraNetware 4.1 network. I did a bargain-basement system upgrade for them. With a local system builder, we took a whole storage closet full of decade-old 386 and 486 de…
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SUSE already has a container offering, CaaS Platform: https://www.suse.com/products/caas-platform/ (Source: I worked on the documentation for v3.) The partly-SUSE-sponsored …
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You may well ask, but you are far, far too late. Red Hat already bought CoreOS in January 2018, some 18 months before IBM bought Red Hat. The question would have been more relevant to either of th…
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I saw that video. He only came in long after the Archimedes era and he doesn't seem to know anything about it. No Archimedes, no ARM. You have to know your history; ask George Santayana. I would …
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No, I didn't mention it at all, because TBH I didn't think it was relevant -- I was mainly discussing the OS and comparing it to other contemporaneous OSes. Why and how do you think it would…