bilegeek

>How does it get to this point?

I would imagine because, going back to even before Soviet times, all the people who do care are either disappeared or flee, leaving behind only the people who are too jaded to effectively resist.

Russian absolutism is generally more, well, absolute than other places. Though it's imperfect, a video[1] by Kraut gets the gist across.

[1]https://youtu.be/f8ZqBLcIvw0

That's a relief. Without UEFI, the boot drive is limited to 2.2TB, hampering upgrades.

Though keep in mind that'll limit your boot drive to 2.2TB in size. Not too much of an issue now for most people, but something to keep in mind during upgrades.

But does the option in question enable third party certificates, or disable UEFI entirely?

Decades plural? Maybe one at most.

>No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. >Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate

Despite the possibility of second thoughts, this is still very worrying for constitutional rights in general. The chances of other important cases for individual rights like Griswold v. Connecticut being overturned just increased greatly.

Since you're using lasers, how would you keep from damaging the subject's eyes if they accidentally get their face in the path of the beam?

Aside from FPGA/emulation options, somebody actually made a replica Amiga 4000 motherboard called the A4000TX[1], so if you can supply the custom chips, you can have an actual hardware Amiga.

The maker still apparently sells them on Amibay[2].

[1]https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=93869

[2]https://www.amibay.com/forum/want-to-sell/hardware-for-sale/...

More info:

They were raided by the FBI[1][2] in 1993 and sued by Playboy[3]. It was later settled in 1998[4].

[1]http://textfiles.com/bbs/r&estory.txt

[2]https://web.archive.org/web/20050922215812/http://www.pixi.c...

[3]http://www.internetlibrary.com/pdf/Playboy-Russ-Hardenburgh-...

[4]https://ia802900.us.archive.org/1/items/gov.uscourts.ohnd.43...

Some vintage splash screens:

https://defacto2.net/g/rusty-n-edies-bbs?

Likely, but it wouldn't self-host on CP/M or DOS then.

Found the manual:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/ISIS_II/9800642A_MCS-86_A...

Though keep in mind that Multics was more for the business[1] side of things, despite being developed at MIT. ITS was a hacker's OS, it was going to have more cool stuff.

[1]https://multicians.org/site-timeline.html

Btw, great fan of your work at https://github.com/PDP-10/its. Keep up the good work in keeping computer history alive!

To piggyback on your comment, Moshix also runs an HNET relay network with MVS nodes.

Node name list: http://moshix.dynu.net/

Web interface: http://relayserver.dynu.net/

About page: https://relayserver.dynu.net/about

They are using the SimH DPS8M emulator. Here's a good page about how to set it up yourself:

https://multicians.org/simulator.html

Unfortunately, while I'm aware of at least one preserved Honeywell DPS-8/70M at the Computer History Museum, I'm unaware of any running examples.

Found the page that describes what it actually is: https://relayserver.dynu.net/about

The original website has more info, including code:

http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/video/

Reminds me of my personal favorite 404 page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180619190151/https://acm.illin...

Archive.org link because I couldn't get the actual page to work for me.

Thank you for this. You get into the intermediate steps, which just about every other tutorial I've seen on this glosses over.

While the devtool ecosystem around Allegro and LispWorks is better, SBCL as a compiler is a fair bit more performant. While it doesn't have quite the quick compilation times of Clozure, it's got everything else. I would go so far as to say it's the de facto CL implementation these days for noncommercial applications.

Small nitpick: the Titanic tried to steer away from the iceberg too late, and thus the iceberg cut along the side, exposing many more airtight compartments than if they hit head-on.

This in no way detracts from your point - unlike the Titanic, steering away from ecological disaster too late will never make things worse, it just won't be enough - but the metaphor isn't quite apt.

At best, like leaded gas, it will take about 30 years, which in this case is far, FAR too late.

At worst, there is no way that anything approaching that sort of regulation will ever fly in today's political system. Period.

It's kinda amazing how many processors have been put on the bus. The guy who runs the site has built[1] a huge number of both CPU and peripheral boards. The S100 bus sure has an outsized shadow.

[1]http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Index%20Page.htm

> ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist 100 years ago

They absolutely did, from about the 1870's onward. Read about Harvey Washington Wiley. Modern food isn't a paragon of health, but for most non-rural people in the US, it was quite a bit worse from the 1870's to the 1910's.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley

[2]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-...

From that last one, they talk about a lot of honey simply being flavored corn syrup. There was swill milk. They put all sorts of weird conservatives into food before Wiley's Poison Squad determined what was safe.

Out of curiosity, how is DOSEMU working out for you compared to something like Dosbox?

I've looked into it in the past; does it work like WINE, or is it basically Dosbox with better hardware and filesystem access?

I've also seen Dosemu2[1], because apparently the original was no longer under development, so I'm a bit concerned at how well it works nowadays.

[1]https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2

I would argue that in itself is also a political problem. Either you play with monopolies that drag things out and milk you for all your worth, or you play with local municipalities that have a byzantine rule set and politicians who love lobster dinners, or deal with a federal government that is influenced by the individuals and companies who want their pound of flesh, or...

And even without corruption, in a fair world: you have to not damage property, have safe practices, and pay your workers well. While I'm in favor, doing any of that balloons costs.

The solution - to have an efficient, fair, non-corrupt system - is simply not possible today, and likely never will be. Unless you are already a monopoly that can do whatever you please and abuse whoever you want, building infrastructure will forever be very expensive.

I agree, and here's where I have to plug the excellent "Rules for Rulers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

Basically - a bit of an oversimplification, watch the video for a full explanation - democracies only stay democracies because giving people a relatively good life happens to coincide with citizen productivity, which increases leader wealth. If a country relies on a source of revenue that itself doesn't rely on the citizenry, then improving the lives of the citizenry is more or less irrelevant to the leaders, as in authoritarian governments.

That's what makes automation so scary. At a certain point, no country will need rely on the majority of the citizenry to produce wealth. Which means we are screwed.

> which means running fiber to vast swaths of the city where people are too poor

Imagine the sad state of affairs if they didn't have government programs for these same problems with electricity and phone lines in the 30's through the 60's. Not just in relatively dense city areas, but even rural areas.

There were plenty of things wrong with Ma Bell, but having short-term profit rule all else is just one more systemic issue that keeps poor areas poor.

Sadly, I doubt this will ever get better; the system is too entrenched, and can protect it's interests better than any other human system in the past, making it nigh-impossible to topple.

Also look at their node database:

http://mim.update.uu.se/nodedb

Just the sheer number of both real and emulated machines operating over the modern internet is itself worth a look.

>Of course some classes have prerequisites and time overlaps

One semester is designed with a particular set of prerequisites in mind. Most times, one prerequisite holds back every other class on the career path. So, if you don't take that one class that semester, you can only take the elective courses until you take that class. Which means that when you run out of electives, what was supposed to be one semester becomes two, with the only course you qualify for in the second being the one you missed (this isn't necessarily true for the spring semester, since you could take the missing class during the summer.)

This is fine, but it leads to a disparity; taking on more classes than the recommended workload has a pretty linear correlation with decreased time to a degree (though the problem still persists that you don't qualify for your next classes); but taking on less than the recommended often jumps straight to doubling the time needed for a degree, with very little room in-between.

> If you want skills go to a trade school

Those really only exist for certain jobs, like plumbers, carpenters, electricians and machinists. I'm not knocking any of those positions - my parents and grandparents are/were machinists - but if you want to be an engineer or scientist, a college degree is required unless you want your resume to go straight to the shredder, or you're taking advantage of having friends and/or family in high positions (i.e. nepotism).

The fact that useful skills are usually only acquired during employment/internship is true. It doesn't change the fact that most can't get employment in the first place without a degree, and internships don't pay the bills.

In addition, since the civil war, colleges in the US have generally been far more focused on utilitarian skills, rather than the humanities. Sure, there were plenty of art colleges still, but there were far more agricultural schools.