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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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Exactly... I mentioned this in an article 4 years ago. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/05/containers_state_of... …
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Update: apparently, now, the SpecNext has added ULA Plus compatibility, but not licensed the trademark so they don't say so. Still, this is good news. There are already enhanced games that use it…
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To be fair, the machines that took Z80 home micros into the 16-bit era were MSX Turbo-R. https://www.msx.org/wiki/MSX_Turbo_R …
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You mean, like a CMD SuperCPU? https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SuperCPU I hear they run Geos great. If you want a cleaner ROM and a better BASIC, there's the Acorn Communicato…
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Yeah, I think virtually everyone still interested in the Spectrum in 2017 onwards knows about that. The thing is, it's an at-least-partially closed design, the only way to get it to subscribe to …
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I used Pygmy Linux which was similar -- it installed in a subdirectory of an existing DOS install and booted with LOADLIN. It was quite useful -- for example it was a simple effective way to probe IDE…
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There is another big reason that Apple didn't buy Be and was right not to -- and I say that although BeOS is my favourite x86 OS ever. Dev tools. Remember Steve Ballmer's "Developers! D…
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Did you know that Blackberry 10 is QNX? I had a Passport for a while. A lovely phone, and the OS had an Android runtime so _some_ Android apps worked... but like other OSes that let you run non-native…
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> I wish desktop OSes could be more simple, i.e. without multi-user and file access rights. Have a look into Oberon and its successor A2/Bluebottle. http://ignorethecode.net/bl…
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I always thought that, too. It's wrong. Original NeXT classes were prefixed NX_. Then NeXT worked with Sun to make a portable version of the GUI that could run on top of other OSes -- primarily t…
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> CentralPoint PC Tools seems little remembered nowadays. Indeed, up to the point that the name was usurped by some unrelated software. It was very useful even in the later DOS era; it was a standa…
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If anyone's still interested, there's a free demo CD of the later successor to OS/2, eComStation. http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/index.php?file=9 This is what i…
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There was a widespread belief that it needed a PS/2 and MCA, but it didn't. I ran it on Librex laptops and several generic clones. No version ever _needed_ MCA. It's just one of many th…
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Not that I knew of. OS/2 1, the 286 version, was quite expensive enterprise software. I evaluated 1.0 in my first job. OS/2 2, the 386 version, was relatively cheap. I paid about £40 for a c…
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This is what compelled me to sell my Blackberry Passport, a lovely device with a good keyboard and a great OS (based on QNX). I didn't care that it no longer had a FB or Twitter client, or that I…
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Was and is. It's even in a song lyric. Been around the world and found /
That only stupid people are breeding /
The cretins cloning and feeding /
And I don't even own a TV ht…
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Some additional commentary from a blog analysing the Inq's story: https://assemblergames.com/threads/ps3-concerns-cell-archite... «It means that no more than three of the SP…
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Thanks. That enabled me to find non-paywalled versions: http://www.impactlab.net/2019/12/09/how-the-end-of-moores-la... or https://moosegazette.net/how-…
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I doubt it. As shipped, it was profoundly broken. Charlie Demerjian did a good exposé on this for the Inquirer, but the page has been taken down. Here is a blog post that references it, though: http:…
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No, that's how they are _served_. It is _not_ how they work . This is how they work:
https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h... TL;DR. Read it anyway, …
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Needs more RISC OS. https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/riscos37 But it's not so much how they looked, as how they worked. Bidirectional scrolling using a 3-button mous…
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There was also LINES=43 for EGA (640×350, rather than VGA's 640×480). MODE CO80 was for 80-column colour. ``MODE MONO'' switched to MDA/monochrome VGA mode (if you hadn't used…
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The 68000 still did not have an onboard memory-management unit, though. The was only introduced with the 68030, which is roughly analagous and contemporaneous with the Intel 80386. The 68040 added an …
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But would this provide good or bad input noise for a atomic vector plotter? One might get very low levels of improbability...
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Glad to see some coverage of this. It's my default browser, since Firefox Quantum. It still allows rich customisation, via classic XUL addons. I have a vertical tab bar, merged with a vertical bo…