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I guess I should have clarified more: I dislike everything running entirely separate OSes that you have no control over at all and are complete black boxes.

The fact they are running entire OSes themselves isn’t that big of a deal. I just hate having no control.

Oh I know it’s been a thing forever. Hell, my NeXT Cube with its NeXTDimension display board was such. The NeXTDimension board ran its own entire stripped down OS. It used an Intel i860 and a Mach kernel…. It also was massively underutilized. If NeXT had did a bit more leg work and made the actual Display PS server run entirely on the board it would have been insane. But the 68K still did everything.

… I miss my NeXTs..

The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).

Oh this looks awesome!

I’ve played DF off an on for ~15 years. Love it always get an upvote.

Holy shit! This is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen in a long time.

I love my protrek. I have a PRW-3000 with the inverted LCD. I have worn it every day for at least a decade.

I still want a smart watch of sorts. Just nothing out there has grabbed my attention yet. The last "smart watch" I had was the OnHand PC which was the americanized version of the Matsucom RuPuter.

http://www.pconhand.com/

He needs to port a FPS to the Timex. There is already tetris :)

https://github.com/PsiKlops/TimexBlocks

Legacy? The Hip New Kid on the block, "Tesla", started this bullshit.

Microtransactions, subscriptions for damn near everything, in-app purchasing for every little addon, *aaS...

I hate the modern tech world in a lot of ways. It is ridiculous.

OEMs: "oooh.. EVs are just computers with Wheels. I bet we can do the same thing everyone else is doing!"

I really, really hope there is so much backlash that they drop it. It should be illegal to purposefully gimp something like a car just to milk more money out of it.

I can understand something that has to be maintained like sat radio or OnStar etc. Those are actually "value-adding services". But freaking performance? It's like the bullshit with Tesla and restricting battery capacity.

What next? your cellphone wont charge past 50% without a subscription? Your car's headlights will only operate at 60% brightness without a fee? Your fridge's ice-maker will make ice slower without a "premium" addon?

You can't use certain colors without paying a fee... oh wait.

/smh

Quick! Start posting Z-libraries entire 31TB compressed archive!

The legions of neckbeards who worship him as a real life Stark will follow him to their graves.

Bye, twitter.

My NeXT kit that I sold:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/albums/7215762370071298...

Damn nice. Yeah I love the old Toshibas. Same with the old NECs.

Posts like this are why I love HN. Thank you for the interesting read!

They need to just quit en masse

Hell no.

Don’t get me start on LTT.

Same dipshits who ran ZFS on top of unRAID. And unRAID is already an abomination.

grumbles

My friends had a running joke about me “over utilizing hardware”.

I used a NEC Versa P/75 (pentium 75 (no mmx), 40mb ram, 350mb HDD, 4GB CF card, modded ORiNOCO Gold cardbus WiFi card, heavily modded Windows 95b (not 95c, mind you. No no. Has to be 95b for reasons) for years. Dual battery packs I upgraded. Ram for 10+ hours and worked fine for MP3s, IRC, SSH, etc. :). I still have it. I didn’t stop using it on the regular till probably 2015-2016.

I have a Portege 3110ct that I upgraded to 192mb ram, 64gb ide ssd, usb2.0 pcmcia card, usb WiFi, etc. that I still use off and on. It was my primary mobile system for about 8 years. Runs a stripped down heavily customized Debian based Linux.

If you are mostly doing textual things, you can happily exist on anything made in the last 30 years assuming it has a basic tcp/ip stack and preferably SSHv2 support.

I recently dug my 386sx40 I grew up on out of storage. It desperately needs a ram upgrade and an FPU. Right now it has a 512k ISA trident video card, NE2000 ISA NIC, 250mb boot drive, 160mb storage drive, 12mb ram.

Runs windows 3.11 with CalmiraXP, Win32s, TCP/IP stack, lots of mods to the base OS (kernel tweaks for the cooperative multitasking functions etc).

… I feel like an old man ranting about the good old days. I’m only 35. I swear. Lol

Screenshot of gmail on my NeXTStation Turbo Color. It’s dated 2009 so I think I may actually have been using my NeXT through 2010 and had my dates off.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/3947037084/in/photolist...

Offtopic but since people were interested:

1. This is dated 2009 so I may have used my NeXT more like through 2010. Honestly a bit fuzzy on the time frame

2. Here’s a screenshot of when I got Omniweb to load gmail after a lot of fiddling: https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/3947037084/in/photolist...

Thanks :) I wish I had kept more of them. I had to move a few times and got married and just didn’t have the space for 2000lbs of furniture sized systems lol.

The IRIS3130 went to a museum, at least!

As for the SSL… I’ll dig through my stuff and see what I have. On it. I have a screenshot of gmail loaded up… lemme find that.

Dude! Ltns! Hit me up on telegram @ressedue !

I heartily recommend EIZO LCDs. They are awesome. Support everything. And you can fine tune everything including clocks from their onboard settings.

BeFS is one of the things I miss the most. My dream is an unholy merger of ZFS and BeFS.

Aha! I am mildly surprised I remembered that correctly as I hadn't thought about it in yeeears.

Thanks for the info :)

Is there any memoir, book, whatever detailing out decisions on the hardware? Like why did they go with the 603? etc?

I really wish there was some deep-dive book on the early history. I can't (well, couldnt. Havent looked in a while) find much info on the original hobbit based system.

I wonder if they will ever target such an old ISA.

What are your sound problems? I only briefly used BeOS on an actual mac and it, amazingly enough, worked without a hitch.

They did.

The initial CPU target for BeOS was the AT&T H0BB1T DSP. The alpha copies were called Shark. I actually have system images for the hobbit builds still floating around somewhere. I never did get my hands on a prototype hobbit bebox, sadly. I almost bought one off a guy in France but the deal fell apart.

Be produced a regular PowerPC version that could be installed on Macs (I think it may have required PCI macs?) and then an x86 version that was 32bit only and had a lot of ... quirks. But I used it for over a decade.

Well, I sold mine for almost $800 like a decade ago and they are only getting harder to find. I wish I had kept mine.