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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
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OK, noted for future reference.
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I think the thing is that an e-ink display isn't a typical display. Linux is an xNix. xNix was written for teletypes: a fundamentally scrolling medium. E-ink does not scroll well. Updating the wh…
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No no no. No! Don't take it from me. Take it from Drew here: https://drewdevault.com/rants/2020/02/18/Fucking-laptops.htm... As he says:
> The best laptop …
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Really? Wow. I've often heard that said of C and other curly-braces languages, and of Perl, but rarely of BASIC. Of course, a lot of it is how clearly someone wrote it in the first place. I'…
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Oh not _this_ again. IT WAS NOT AN INVESTMENT. This is a widely-repeated lie. Gates did not “save” Apple. Microsoft did not “invest” in Apple. Microsoft stole Apple code. Apple sued. The companies set…
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You have most of the details right, but not in the right order. Yes, Apple looked at buying in an OS after Copland failed. But all the stuff about Carbon, Blue Box, Yellow Box, etc. -- all those were …
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A good, pithy summary. BeOS was a beautiful OS, my favourite ever x86 OS. But the _other_ key thing most people miss is that NeXT also had amazing, industry-beating development tools. Be didn't. …
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It wasn't unique to the 68K world. Windows/286 (from long before Windows 3) could multitask too, but not very stably. No memory protection. Acorn RISC OS -- the original ARM OS -- had _both_…
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Update from the author (who's happy this has provoked interest :-) — There is now even a Firefox add-on that works with Linkalot: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox…
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Here is the author's demo version:
https://tokyoma.de/linkalot/ He is a colleague of mine on the documentation team at SUSE.…
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Lots, many of which have been mentioned, but there is one
whole category of app that didn't really make the leap to
Windows (or Mac OS X over in Apple-land) and is basically dead now: Outliners -…
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Also see: https://github.com/sigurbjornl/emulator-sun-2
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Hi. Article author here. Pascal isn't ideal, but it has derivatives which are. Pascal became Modula-2, in which several large-scale OS implementation efforts were made, including Acorn ARX. Modul…
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Article author here. Thanks! I do quite a bit...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265615 This talk was 2y earlier:
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/56835.ht…
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Hi. Author of the piece here. The reason I skipped it is addressed in an earlier comment: there was no code transition. The 65C816 ran 6502 code natively. Yes there was a bit of native code, but if Ap…
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Hi. Original blog post author here. Not really, no. I was there and used and supported these machines throughout. There was a CDEV available at the time. I can't find it any more. It placed an &q…
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Hi, original author here. Yes, I'm talking about Apple Macs, specifically. I am not aware of any other Apple product line that has transitioned from any one processor architecture to another diff…
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Subtitle: "All programming languages are wrong." This is fascinating. I was planning to post it myself, but I'm glad someone beat me to it. Context: This is the latest project from Davi…