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The "Enjoy" link 404'd. This one works, for me anyways.

There were a few BASICs available for the 2020. If you wanna try it for as real as you can get, there's a few 10 emulators running around now that will do the job. Visit http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp10emu.html and pick whatever one looks good.

You weren't the only weird kid...

I think id Games used to compile on SGIs. I know MS did some development on Xenix/i286 and Xenix/i386 (somewhere, there's an MS quote about how MS-DOS/Win is not suitable for serious development..hah). In fact, the i286 had a memory management unit, but the only OS (that I know of) which took full advantage of it was Xenix. Minix/i286 may have supported it to some extent, as well.
Some emulator pages....mac&ppc, simos (for SGI/IRIX5), DEC 10 and Big Iron, various DEC emulation, Apple Lisa, Z80 sim&development, yaze Z80, Apricot and Amstrad, bochs x86, ... and there's always emulators that run under DOS that you could run under Bochs or QEMU.

Other possibly helpful links:
emulators on freshmeat
OS kernels on freshmeat
OS's on freshmeat
bunches of old OS disk images
CP/M and MP/M
CP/M disks
Lisa Xenix
LisaOS
tandy xenix
elks and uclinux
freevms
freedos
Apple I (not II) development
reactos - winnt clone
MAME stuff and pinball Mame
info about tandy disk images
solaris minix
minix info and version 3
various free (as in beer and/or speech) OS list
The OS list at tunes.org

After seeing the Operation Crossroads footage of the Navy dudes smiling as white-suited techs swept madly clicking geiger counters over their nuts after a swim in the radioactive lagoon, I'd say the jokes were worth it.

Internal memos from Philip Morris from April 1980 indicate that the tobacco companies have been fully aware of radioactivity in cigarettes for over two decades. They also knew of ways of eliminating the radioactivity, but wrote them off as a "valid but expensive point":

That phosphate fertilizer (specifically superphosphate fertilizer) contains natural radioactivity is a well established fact.

Natural uranium accumulates in the phosphate rock and has been shown to substitute for calcium in the rock structure. Uranium and its daughters are thus carried through the mining and manufacturing process and appear in the commercial product. Soils to which these products are applied show an increase in radioactivity over that naturally present and this increase is a function of the rate of application and the number of years that the fertilizers have been used.

M. E. Counts has shown that the specific [radio]activity [...] increases as the particle size of the superphosphate fertilizer decreases. Thus the smaller particles, which would be more likely to be made airborne by normal farming practices, would be expected to settle out on the tobacco leaves during the growing season and/or be more readily taken up by the plant root system.

210Pb and 210Po are present in tobacco and smoke. The Martell "Hot Particle Theory" has been addressed in the past and has apparently lost popularity in the scientific community (lack of recent publicity in this field). For -particles from 210Po to be the cause of lung cancers is unlikely due to the amount of radioactivity of a particular energy necessary for induction Evidence to date, however, does not allow one to state that this is an impossibility. (Ed: and of course, more recent evidence says just the opposite)

The recommendation of using ammonium phosphate instead of calcium phosphate as fertilizer is probably a valid but expensive point. What Martell appears to be suggesting is the purification of phosphate rock to obtain P2O5 or H3PO4 free of calcium (uranium and daughters) and inert materials. Preparation of ammonium phosphate for fertilizer would then yield a product greatly reduced in or free of the natural radioactivity present in the parent phosphate rock.

Furthermore, switching to indirect fire curing would eliminate virtually all of another carcinogen, nitrosamine, from cigarettes. Nitrosamine was previously found in BEER thanks to direct fire curing of barley. Switching to indirect fire curing of barley reduced nitrosamine in beer to indetectable levels. Yet Philip Morris makes Marlboros, cigarettes with more nitrosamine than any others in the world.

Yes, believe what Philip Morris says, because if you realized there could be a safe cigarette, it would cost them a lot of money...

Here's two simple manufacturing changes they could make which would eliminate the two most potent carcinogens from cigarettes. But I guess it's just cheaper for Philip Morris to kill their customers.

Now was that 7- or 9-track tape?

It's frankly staggering how many tests were done. Heaven forbid anyone else would develop nuclear devices and behave anywhere near as recklessly.
http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/films1.htm
Several pictures of Starfish-Prime about half way down.
http://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/d ominic/index.html
http://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/d ominic/Dstarfish2s.jpg
http://www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/i ndex.shtml

... erm ... TECO!

CC.

I have a friend who uses biofuels in his Jetta. He made the headlines in the local paper too.

...so far, you mean. Check out this guy

People just don't seem to want to admit that radiation exposure is a risk, and that the risk is small and quantifiable. Check out this wikipedia article to learn about the units involved. Most cancer is caused by something other than radiation, and nearly all radiation exposure is natural exposure anyway, at the epidemiologial level.

I'd be more concerned about the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings...or veterans working in shipyards who got exposed to asbestos... or some of the ones who got a case of acute lead poisoning via a bullet.

I completely agree. I recall a colleague did a (basic) LISP implementation in logo (in the days when a PDP10 was hype).

CC.

Huh! And as I see, its still there !

Hey now! This one sure looked like the real thing! ;-)

Unix WAS originally made for playing games (or more specifically, some kind of space game I think).

You're probably thinking of SpaceWar which was played on a PDP-1. I hate to break it to you, but that predated Unix (and most actual "OSes" as we think of them today) by about 8 years. To my knowledge, Unix was never used for games. (At least until *after* video games became common.)

Here's the story behind SpaceWar.

I am not exactly sure, but there must have been some combination of bright light and higher energy radiation. From a retinal vision perspective, all one would need to do would be to activate opsins and this could easily be imagined happening with all of the high energy particles being emitted by the bomb.

Also, a quick google search reveals that others have relayed the same experience.

You probably mean the PDP-10 (the DECSYSTEM-20 was just a renamed PDP-10). Here is an exhaustive list of resources for emulation. I recommend you try out ITS; it's probably the best environment ever made when it comes to assembly programming.

As someone who's been prominently involved in RJ fandom for the last decade, I'd have to say...you're absolutely right.

I'd probably get up to book 7 on the "to read" list, just because of Dumai's Wells, but it's been a cereal-varnished-saucer sled ride from there.

(ObLink: 17 minutes of story after book 10 ends)

Best book published this year that I've read? Probably Brust's The Lord of Castle Black. Most of my reading this year has not been of books written this year, though. Best book I read for the first time this year? Probably either Gaiman's American Gods or Card's Ender's Game.

An IBM System/370 hardware emulator for Linux, Windows, and OS X can be found at the Hercules Emulator page.

One site for good Mac emulators is emulation.net. Check out the PDP-8/e emulator -- Mac OS X native, with a spookily accurate virtual reproduction of the PDP-8/e's front panel!

Betwixt and between all of these, and many of the others out there, he could easily double the number of OSes he can run on his PowerBook!

Try the Drop Dead Diet. It's guaranteed to work, and to be the last diet you ever try.

http://www.fpgacpu.org/links.html

http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp_fpga.html

Michael Sokolov is rumored to be working on a FPGA VAX-inspired CPU with intent to fab eventually.

If, God forbid, something were to happen to easystreet, in your area you could try Aracnet. I have been with them for 6 years now, and they only had one spot of trouble a few years ago, but have been very reliable other than that. Their terms of service are pretty liberal: No IRC bots, no spam, no bots, don't do anything illegal, no bots, don't be an asshat, and no bots. I guess they REALLY don't like bots. From what I hear, Easystreet is as good or better, but at least there are alternatives to Comcast.

• Do yourself a favor and get the psychological counseling you need. If you think that seeing someone eating shit or butterfly-splitting their penis is something that only the most delicate of children and adults would be upset by, then you need help.

I personally think we'd be better off trying the Drop Dead Diet .. same results as Atkins, only a lot quicker.

Oops. here's the link


Seagull's Guinea Pig Compendium

We would probably compare it to megatons of TNT. The Tunguska event corresponded roughly to a 15-30 megaton explosion. By comparison, the largest thermonuclear device ever exploded in the atmosphere by the United States was the Castle Bravo test in 1954, at 15 megatons.

There is also information and sourcecode for some of the META implementations that were used with ALGOL-W.

Zane

I tried to get it running a year ago, but all the emulators I could find were under development and unavailable. A new search today revealed an interesting site about PDP-10 emulation with instructions for TOPS-10, TOPS-20 and, yes, ITS. I'm going to have fun this week.

Distribute it far and wide!

For great justice!

Dah, the slashdot-system ate my second link 'cause I put Href instaed of href (I think) (Hey slashcode coders!). It should have been http://www.aracnet.com/~seagull/NJB/protocol/...

Check your URLs, crew!
A more working link to the pdf version, and a link to the homepage which includes a MS-word version(!)...

Try this link for a working version

Try this link for a working version

I need you to support this. I have a friend right next to me who is in the industry and, although this is purely anecdotal, insists this is not the case. This, on the other hand, is not anecdotal. In it, it says that artists who have a minimum contract (which almost all do) only get 7.55 cents per full-length album. This doesn't add up to much, even when you go quad-platinum. Make that up, Whore! 9-)

So you mean Madonna or Michael Jackson has stolen you salary lately?

What kinda loose comment is this?!? MJ does not produce himself, therfore, he is not part of the industry that I am concerned about. Madonna is, and from what I understand, she is a nice suit, so I my mind, she doesn;t count. Although that comment was harsh, it is how I feel whenever I see that those shmucks are producing people who don't even write their own songs. UGBALL!!

And as for Napster, I'll leave you with a quote by Courtney Love -- "Stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no-one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people who are scared of Napster are the people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single they're not going to buy the album."

Forget all this vi vs. emacs foolishness. Why not use a REAL editor?

teco for Windows.

Yes, it's still around.

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Weren't you the kid who dropped the coke can on the sidewalk the other day and said "hey, don't worry, it's only a tiny bit of trash..." ?

Nuclear test statistics (hey, what's a little bit of junk going to matter in the oceans.. ?)

UNITED KINGDOM
--Total number of tests: 45
Nevada Test Site -- 24
Monte Bello Island -- 3
Woomera -- 2
Maralinga -- 7
Christmas Island -- 9.

CHINA
--Total number of tests: 43

FRANCE
--Total number of tests: 210.
--Tests were conducted at sites in Algeria, the Sahara Desert, North Africa, and in the South Pacific.

INDIA
--Total number of tests: 6

...and counting...

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Red$at? A killer communist sattelite?

I don't get it. RedHat thrives at the whim and pleasure of its users. I can concieve of no threat from them.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing gnome/E in a distro. (and maybe my theme too? (please please please...)

Leeb nowe. Lat helpee us nub.


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