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larsbrinkhoffon DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland

You should probably get https://github.com/bictorv/chaosnet-bridge up and running. http://chaosnet.net/ has some instructions. I did this the other day, so I can confirm it's doable.

larsbrinkhoffon DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland

I think that is planned, at least some of them.

larsbrinkhoffon The History of User Interfaces

PLATO forgotten again.

larsbrinkhoffon DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland

Here's something to get you started: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Chaosnet

Hobbyist Chaos network: http://chaosnet.net/

larsbrinkhoffon DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland

Funny coincidence. I'm helping out with a Chaosnet demo going live this Saturday.

https://wiki.dfupdate.se/projekt:mini-conference

larsbrinkhoffon Ed is the standard text editor (2014)

There is a solution to your problem: M-x shell

larsbrinkhoffon Ed is the standard text editor (2014)

http://twenex.org/

larsbrinkhoffon Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed

I drove by Copenhagen the other day! Ah well, another time.

larsbrinkhoffon Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987)

I feel pain from the lack of a closing parenthesis.

larsbrinkhoffon A Road to Common Lisp (2018)

Maclisp back then, I suppose?

larsbrinkhoffon The First Lisp Compiler

"Bernard S. Greenburg"

It's Greenberg.

larsbrinkhoffon OpenVMS on x86

You know how VMS systematically kills off its host architectures, right?

larsbrinkhoffon SDF Public Access Unix System

Also ITS at https://www.hactrn.org/ by SDF.

larsbrinkhoffon SDF Public Access Unix System

Too short, did not read. Listen to this.

https://ia600903.us.archive.org/22/items/bsdtalk021/bsdtalk0...

larsbrinkhoffon I decided to build a nine-bit computer

The CPU was called MBB (Microprogrammable Building Block).

Here's the C/30 Programmer's Reference for the "Native Mode Firmware System". That was the software that ran in the native 20-bit mode rather than emulating the 16-bit Honeywell mini.

https://walden-family.com/impcode/c30-nmfs-programmers-refer...

larsbrinkhoffon I decided to build a nine-bit computer

The Unix machine was called C70, right?

larsbrinkhoffon Arm-Based 128-Core Ampere CPUs Cost a Fraction of x86 Price

That's an odd assumption. Let's be rational: 1.5 is also a fraction. 1/π isn't, even though it's less than 0.5.

I don't mean to sound negative, but it's not very complex.

larsbrinkhoffon PDP-10 Emulator in JavaScript

Is there a reason it couldn't?

larsbrinkhoffon PDP-10 Emulator in JavaScript

Sorry, no ITS support (yet).

larsbrinkhoffon Forth BBS 2 (1985)

This project came out of Rick's blog post: https://rickcarlino.com/2021/seeking-collaborators-for-proje...

larsbrinkhoffon Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)

If the overusing of the articles makes me sound like the Starfire, so be it!

larsbrinkhoffon Bird populations declining fast across North America

Agreed, cheers!

"We should reduce population somewhat."

"Yet you are part of the population. Curious!"

larsbrinkhoffon Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language

I tried to recreate such a session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ub36q03vkc

larsbrinkhoffon Tenex, a Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10

Cornwell implemented the BBN pager in his KA10 emulator, and it's in use running WAITS 7.x.

Plenty of files from TENEX tapes are here: https://github.com/PDP-10/tenex

larsbrinkhoffon Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life

A PiDP-10 is in the works.

larsbrinkhoffon A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

You have it wrong. It was carrying a coconut.

larsbrinkhoffon Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

Broken link? Nothing was taken down, but the code was updated to a newer version.

Here's a new link for you: Logo in space. It uses Minsky's circle algorithm for trigonometry. https://www.playfulinvention.com/portfolio/crickets-in-space...

larsbrinkhoffon Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

Ha ha! No, I didn't.

larsbrinkhoffon Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)

Your LLOGO copy was for an older version of Maclisp, but eventually we (Eric and I) managed to port it over to New IO. It works fine and displays on an emulated Knight TV. (Itself a tour de force in emulation: the TV PDP-11 code runs on an emulator sharing its Unibus with the PDP-10 emulator.)

We also have an early PDP-11 Logo, an even earlier BBN PDP-10 Logo, and a later Apple II Logo (not the Terrapin version). I also wrote an emulator for the General Turtle 2500 computer slash terminal.

larsbrinkhoffon Barbara Liskov's CLU programming language recovered from PDP-10 tapes

I meant to point directly here: https://github.com/MITDDC/clu-1976-1989