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scruffyherder··on I wrote a linker everyone can understand
To me the odd question is why in a language with almost no popular use.. why JavaScript, fortran, basic or c?

How does this handle endian, word sizes, and dreaded alignment? Is packing enough?

scruffyherder··on I wrote a linker everyone can understand
Even more annoying is that people downvote you making it unreadable so I have to upvote hopping I can read it.

This elitist UI thing of forcing deliberately blind schemes is trash

scruffyherder··on It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974
The same IBM that wouldn’t let them port Windows to run ON OS/2 or let them ship 80386 features like v86 mode support. Microsoft even had 1.0 betas of v86 multitasking on OS/2 in 87, but it only shipped in Windows/386.. and of course 386 flat mode in Xenix 386.
scruffyherder··on It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974
It goes back to version 2 where there was a planned merge of Xenix and dos.

You can even get it using the Unix path slashes in the 2.11 source code.

scruffyherder··on PGP Marks 30th Anniversary
https://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pgp/...

I still use PGP 1.0 as all of the scanners that check for stuff can't recognize any of it, and it slides through. It's more of payload thing

scruffyherder··on A 20-Foot Sea Wall? Miami Faces the Hard Choices of Climate Change
What are they going to do about the porous coral rock bed?
scruffyherder··on Sorry everybody, I failed with you
OSS like the audio?
scruffyherder··on Sorry everybody, I failed with you
I’d say it’s forever 1997. Netscape had a server side JavaScript platform in 1997.

People still build 3 tier apps, and web farms. It’s eternal 1997.

scruffyherder··on Sorry everybody, I failed with you
Something like the patreon thing for sure which also means community outreach and engagement.

It also means supporting other people and stepping up. It’s so few and far that’ll pay value for value.

scruffyherder··on Elijah Miller’s NEC v30 on a Pi hat
There is buffee and pistorm which both plug into a 68000 socket and emulate a 68000, faster than the stock processor.

Pistorm runs musashi and can even do 68030/68040 along with peripherals in the high memory area (above 24bits) things like additional ram and IDE.

It's very cool

scruffyherder··on The Hostile Takeover of a Microsoft Flight Simulator Server
I worked with a mainframe operator that learned English from I love Lucy. It was interesting..

He honned in the Ricky pretty well I thought it was a gag but no its how he learned.

scruffyherder··on Mega65 – Open 8-Bit Computer
Amiga had a help key.

It did nothing

scruffyherder··on Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
right behind OS/2!
scruffyherder··on Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians in internal letter
I’m looking forward to having to use a tracking app that will determine my price “discount” wether it’s positive or negative, and more importantly if I’m even allowed to even be there.

It’s been working great in China, and it feels like Yuu and other stupid things are going to bring it to Hong Kong so why not the west too?

scruffyherder··on Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016)
This is one of the big reasons OS/2 crashed and burned. Version 1.1 released in 88 was the first version with presentation manager. And you really wanted a 4MB system, which just became insanely expensive. Windows/286 still ran in under a megabyte and Windows/386 could multitask MSDOS, something the FOOTBALL OS/2 betas could do, but IBM pulled from the product.
scruffyherder··on Scala 3.0
It’s pretty impressive that an old Amiga presentation manager is still getting updates .

Or is it more impressive that they have walls of text without saying what scale is?

Also why would they wear an old product like Scala like a skin suit ?

scruffyherder··on When MTV debuted 40 years ago, everyone thought it would fail
It did. Adam Curry detailed it all
scruffyherder··on Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
After the Hong Kong incident, I was out.
scruffyherder··on Facebook Asks Users to Enable ATT in Order to Keep Services 'Free of Charge'
Oh please make people pay for facebro.

Make the Twitter users pay to tweet and get distribution.

End these monopolies of stupidity

scruffyherder··on MCL65 – Fastest Apple II+
It’s also a proof.

It’s one thing to code around issues it’s another thing to actually run on metal

scruffyherder··on A Policy of Activism in the Workplace Is Anti-Fellowship
How do I inject this into my SQL?
scruffyherder··on QEMU 6.0
Rip IDE.

Also readconfig/writeconfig

It sucks that Qemu has drifted so far from normal users

scruffyherder··on TSMC sees chip shortage lasting into 2022
And I can make a baby in 1 month with 10 women.
scruffyherder··on School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired
I have a key logger and some program that takes pictures and captures the clipboard as well. But it’s a work machine and I only use if for work.

One thing is for sure, when we are going to be hacked completely it won’t be solar winds it’ll be all these spyware security programs of the week.

scruffyherder··on EMU2: A simple text-mode x86 and DOS emulator
Qemu has a gdb stub so you can attach and read memory directly...
scruffyherder··on Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance
I was at one of the companies Nuance absorbed. They laid us all off, nice touch but turns out they needed me. I got all my demands met with zero resistance which only means I was thinking too low.

I got to see inside the beast and it www just out of control growth from acquisition. The IBM voice patent had eclipsed scansoft was.

Kind of strange MS wanting it for anything but their patents. The business was shit. As a side benefit they can shut down Siri since the apple deal was such a linchpin.

scruffyherder··on A bit of XENIX history (2014)
OS/2 was always tied to the 80286. Even 2.0 still used 16bit device drivers, and used the 16bit stuff at its core.
scruffyherder··on LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
I’ve been thinking of getting a pine phone. The concept sure looks interesting.
scruffyherder··on What Would You Do If the Internet Went Away?
Be thankful of my archives
scruffyherder··on Atari 800XL PCB Remake
There is a bunch of chip replacements as well like the armsid and the 68k stuff like pistorm and buffee
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