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I think an awful lot of the user-space utilities were VESTed, I'm thinking about EDT and TPU and who knows what else?

This might be the ancient ancestor of the technology that Apple uses to run x86 binaries on their M1 ARM-based chips.

I have sadly lost my copy of the Digital Technical Journal that had this article, it was a All-Alpha issue, if I remember correctly.

The authors are not attributed at the beginning of the article, but they are all named at the end.

Pretty sure I bought this report for money about 15 years ago.

That's no enigma. enigma had 3 or 4 rotors. This is more like a "tunny", almost. Germany's teleprinter encryption, what you hear about that was decrypted at Bletchly Park, was a machine that had 12 rotors. This picture looks like a machine with 10 rotors.

TL;DR: this thing probably has significantly stronger encryption than enigma.

Team moral? I don't think morals have anything to do with working for facebook.

Paintings by Zuse...

https://www.wikiart.org/en/konrad-zuse

Interesting to see that many are PDP-8 and -11 clones.

"CVAX... When you care enough to steal the very best."

That was not Ken Olsen, I can assure you. It might have been Bob Palmer, but I don't think he was ru(i)nning the company until the early 90s.

Ken was a frugal and deeply religious man. The first time I met him, he was picking up trash in the parking lot outside the Mill, and he offered to hold the door for me because I was carrying a stack of books. Ken Olsen made Digital a great place to work, until he was forced out. The company would not subsidize birth control with their health insurance, but would pay for a couple to have up to 3 IVF proceedures, which were 5 or 6 figures back in the day.

VAXCluster and the distributed lock manager that enabled it. Nothing has come close. This was from the late 80s.

"Digital Has It Now."

Join your local radio club, or attend their (online) meetings. There are lot of people who would like to help you get licensed, grow your skills, and get better licensed.

The Technician test is a few rules and Ohm's law, you learn what you need to pass that test in a few evenings of studying. The subsequent tests are more difficult, then way more difficult and will require some study. But Electronics and Radio are good skills to have, the learning to past the test has practical value if you really want to hack on electronics and particularly RF.

and vice-versa. The hacker community can benefit from amateur radio, too.

I'm an electronics hacker, software developer, audio enthusiast, and ham radio nut. The lines between them are very, very blurry. Radio is just another nerd-toy to me.

Funny how this appeared the same day as "What Is the PDP-11 Instruction Set".

Stereophile magazine has never been known for science, mostly pseudo-scientific, unsubstantiable claims. They still insist that double-blind testing is not suitable for audio. I used to subscribe to the magazine, but would get infuriated at the "reviews," especially at the unabashed glowing reports of what is obvious snake oil.

OTOH, I have owned a Carver magnetic field power amplifier, and I liked it very much. Bob Carver is a audio genius.

"The URL provided is not correct" -- funny, it seems to work in a web browser.

PR#6

no, really, you old Apple users know what I mean. That's what you would type to get the thing to load DOS.

I use duckduckgo for search, I have the DuckDuckGo privacy extensions installed in Chrome, along with EFF Privacy Badger. I'm not that worried about Google.

I did de-facebook myself. IMHO Facebook is far more invasive, far more harmful than Google.

What's old is new again.

This reminds me of Digital's VEST technology. VEST would convert VAX programs to run on Alpha. From 32-bit CISC to 64-bit RISC. Nearly 30 years ago.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/binary-transl...

You might look at what Jamie Dupree has done.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/health/dystonia-jamie-dupree-...

He uses a text-to-speech system that sounds more-or-less like him.

My Dad had one of those PDT-11/150 as his "personal computer". It ran RT-11, had two 8" floppy drives. The CPU box was about the size of a countertop microwave oven. He had a video terminal, and a printing terminal (LA36 DECwriter II) connected to it. I'm gonna guess late 70s.

Having a DEQNA was the reason they did not love their PDP-11. They were notoriously buggy. Replaced with DELQA. See http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/qbus/EK-DELQA-UG-002.pdf

I am reminded of the xcrab x11 program, where a crab would scuttle across the screen and abscond with the mouse pointer. That was late 80s. Not to be confused with xroach, where disgusting roaches would scatter when the window covering them was moved. Good times.

"Privacy-focused", but you need to log in with your Linkedin credentials -- what could go wrong?

Thanks, but no thanks.

More for L.L. Bean, I guess.

I've driven a Chevy Impala. It drove OK, but it looked and felt really cheap inside. I've owned Chrysler, Chevy, and Ford. It was the Ford product -- that I bought new -- that drove me (in many senses) to the Honda dealer.

I've bought 7 new Hondas since. Why? Every American car I had owned got at least one tow-truck ride to get repaired. The Ford had to be towed to the dealer for service _three_ times.

The Hondas have never left me stranded.

Find a local club, there will be people there that will want to see you succeed.

I'm a late-career software developer. 30+ years in the trenches doing this...

I've done "meaningful" work at companies that treated my like a consumable resource, and less meaningful work at companies that treated me like a person. I prefer the latter. My suggestion is don't jump at the first interesting work, look more for culture and career opportunity. You can find both, those jobs are not quite as rare as unicorns.

Good luck in your search.

More good work by radio amateurs. PA3FWM is a ham.

no headline bias there. ios devices were vulnerable until patched, very recently. the patches are built for android and it's up to the device manufacturers to get them into the wild.

The library is missing the sound of the bike's rider repeatedly kicking the starter, over and over, and the muttered oaths, as the bike fails to start.

This one sentence says it all:

"The Economist found that between 2012 and 2015 the three biggest Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys—submitted over 150,000 visa applications for positions that paid a median salary of $69,500. In contrast, America’s five biggest tech firms—Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft—submitted just 31,000 applications, and proposed to pay their workers a median salary of $117,000."

None of those salaries listed are competitive with what a non-H1B (read citizen or permanent resident) would earn. Indeed.com quotes the average SD salary in Seattle (think Amazon and Microsoft) as 126,000 and San Francisco at 134,000. Companies sponsoring H1B need to be held to the letter of the law -- the salaries must be competitive. The demand for H1B visas would fall if the imported labor was paid fairly.