scruffyherder

the SUN-1 was based on the SUN (Stanford University Network) board, but I can't find anything concrete on the SUN board (Also by Andy) other than it existing, and apparently 'cheap/free' to license?

Apparently it formed the foundations of cisco/SGi & SUN.

Have you ever played with this:

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/aux-apple-unix-68k-version-...

I found it interesting that it mentions both ‘Milwaukee‘, and Cayman "brac" ... Here on the Jasmine 80.

Seems like lots of weird codenames.

It looks like UniSoft had done a lot of work on the code (you?) to make it super portable. Although everything not directly related to the Milwaukee was cut. It'd be interesting to see if the kernel could be built without MMU support.. I tried to remove PAGING but that didn't work. Oh yeah the kernel source is on that image and other than one damaged file, it not only builds, but works on a special Shoebill.

cd /sys/psn

rm *.o

cd io

mv screen-data.c screen_data.c

cd ..

make unix

Pretty neat, none the less!

Milwaukee is mentioned in the A/UX 0.7 build, so I was wondering if it was more 'BigMac' or something else entirely.

It's a shame more of this is buried in legend.

glad you got the 65scribe video!

I'm emailing someone who did support for the ANS stuff so I'll follow up with something there, although I don't have the machine/software.. not that I'd have the space for such a monster!

I'll have to order those books... it'd be a surprising twist that Jobs was dragged into NeXT? maybe some personal obligation?

Apple bough a port of UniSoft SYSVr2 to the Apple platoform and dubbed it A/UX. Version 2 onward were technically significant as ToolBox and Finder had been ported to Unix and allowed MacOS apps to run on top of Unix. They didn't offer process virtualization so they could all crash eachother out.

which to me was surprising about A/UX, you got both C89 and F77!

those were seemingly easy to make, kernel.exe gdi.exe user.exe some drivers and ONE FONT.. lol maybe one program. its been a while but it was 'neat'.

also Qemu is mainlining Quadra 800 support for 3.0.1

https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=11326

On a test of compiling about 4MB of source code, Qemu is 7x faster than Shoebill!

more so the platform + the OS... I guess being in for 4k for a base machine (probably 2k more to make it usable) 500/1000 more isn't going to break it, but 386BSD machines while far less usable would be a heck of a lot cheaper.

My biggest complaint is that it makes it damned near impossible to read.

Why must it become inaccessible to people with bad eye sight? My feelings aren't that fragile

Xenix dev tools can produce x86 real mode objects. Some dev kits even have the full linker and libraries.

The original Microsoft C for the 386 was a Xenix product although the OS/2 1632 cross compiler was certainly around in 1991 when everything was going the way of Windows NT.

The original 1991 NT pre-release could even make OS/2 2.0 32bit OMF objects.

Cross compiling from Minix386 to downloading SLS and going native.

What a wild ride.

And yet we mitigated y2k. All with publicly traded companies. The reward was simply being open for business on 1/1/2001 without slipping a beat.

Sometimes I think as an industry we hyped too much and over delivered giving the impression that it was no big deal.

If only virtual machines and networks were a thing.

They do, it’s how the schools are designed to encourage bullying and bearings from staff and teachers.

It was not one school or one teacher.

Of course Canadians just want to pretend it was just one group they screwed with, I’m just simply pointing out that it was NOT an isolated thing that Canadian schools are pure trash.

It’s not from the 16th century

Canadian schools are pure trash. The only people surprised by all of this are as always Canadians.

They treated left handed people pretty shitty too but luckily they didn’t get the chance to send us to concentration camps to die.

I’m definitely never sending my kids to Canada, I’ll send them to Beijing way before that.

Put your sensitive data on other people’s servers and this happens. If people cared they’d host it inside, on the other hand, that would mean being responsible for your own data which is not a popular idea these days

What to do though?!

How do we possibly get 2+ million upset about this? Clearly they can’t arrest 1/3rd the population but it’s feeling like 2047 came early.

Last ones to publish free.

It’s over the CCP and open sympathetic parties own all the rest of the media.

We are totally screwed.

What to do?!

I can’t talk about this in person or in the streets.

Sucks.

You need to see if you have been served, as it’ll require a signature, not just something in the mail.

It’s patent so you can’t file an anti slapp, but until you have been properly served you need to find hearing dates and BE THERE, and demand a dismissal based on improper service. The court will almost always dismiss it, have you served right then and there but it does drag the clock.

Also get a lawyer don’t listen to strange people like me on the internet. Most likely it’ll involve some posturing and mediation or a settlement.

Also what will happen is your lawyer will send them a request to serve them on your behalf. It’s only the beginning. Things drag slow for months then speed and slow down.

First challenge on any and all lawsuits is diversity. Since you are the one being sued it better be Nevada, otherwise your lawyer will answer with a diversity challenge saying you don’t do business where it was filed and ask for the case to be moved.

Get ready for so many continuances and discovery requests. Do not delete anything, purposeful deletions can be taken as an admission of guilt.

But I’m clearly not your lawyer or a lawyer just someone who has been sued.

They always want to settle for precedent. Prior art is a harder thing than it should be, but you better find out everyone else they sued and make contact, assuming they aren’t gagged.

Sadly courts don’t slammed down enough people as vexatious litigants, so here we are.

When not sounding like a Linux distro reminds me of 6to4

Interestingly no copies of GCC 1.0 survived. Oddly enough 0.9 survived but 1.0 to 1.20 are all missing.

You would have thought stuff like that would have had historical significance when new but so much of early FSF is lost.

It was some repackage of Netscape and plugins and some dialup from mid 90s.

I remember the name as it was so ludicrous to think the internet fit in a box. Meanwhile a decade of usenet is only 10gb.

I’ll press y to quit.

I’ve been trying for years.

Time scales too. Remember how long the death March to Chicago was? It was 1993 and NT had finally shipped, Linux was slightly useful and this was OS/2’s era to shine as Microsoft had stagnated with no consumer releases of any meaning post Windows 3.1. 1993 finished, and 1994 came and went as well. IBM pushed out Warp as this was their chance to arrive early, and then it was late summer of 1995 that Chicago finally shipped.

Now look at the window of the MacPro 2013 to 2020. And it felt like nothing. How long has Windows 10 been a thing? Feels like only yesterday we finally moved all production off of Linux 2.6

Time really telescopes

I used to do it a lot, it was great. So many people I’ve met IRL just as I had a perfect job where I was always going to random places.

The first time it was weird, I was going to meet this girl on irc about some forum drama, and it felt even more silly telling customs. But we had a fun night and I realised that people have weird fringe interests and that there is literally dozens of us.

It’s never too late

And then I get downvoted and can't read it, thanks anonymous loser!