do you miss running the macro in the q-register.m? do you miss the Ivory loader? do you yearn for the days when you could use DDT to drop a -1 in register 1 and then logout by directly executing the LGOUT% jsys?
you think separate panels for separate windows is a *feature*? that's a huge FAIL. if you are in the >2 monitor zone, you are almost surely using xinerama. that means no XRANDR. and no way to maximize a window to one physical screen or all physical screens. roll in virtual desktops and try to use focus-follow-mouse and watch kwin give you mulit-second focus change latencies. and konsole? konsole?? it's barely maintained. it's "profiles" support is unbelievably buggy and has been so across release after release. clearly there is no one left who understands it. the strong impression given off by all of this is that KDE is developed by youths on single-screen desktops who quiver in delight while working on the 'social desktop' while basic functionality like speedy focus shifting and tty-based computing is left in the dust.
i've been a WSJ online subscribe for over a decade. the last time i was up for renewal, the subscription rate doubled. i punted. a month or so later, i received an offer to subscribe at my old rate. i accepted. my subscription is up for renewal again. the price was double *and* they were trying to automatically renew it. i called and said unless you match last year's price (or lower) and unless you suspend automatic renewal, i'm gone. these people are OUT OF THEIR MINDS.
the redmond hegemony lost the internet protocol battle and decided to fight back with semantically rich but proprietary file systems (think 'halloween memo', 'longhorn', 'groove'). are you thinking about how to mutate ReiserFS to support arbitrary object attributes, full-text indexing, callbacks, namespace syntax for queries, etc?
groove has hundreds of employees and funding from the borg. and some have suggested they have no real sales. could groove be a component of the halloween memo strategy (rich, proprietary protcools)? like the new structured file system that is part of longhorn?
Did Frank tell you about the time when he & a bunch of other radicals occupied Grayson Kirk's office in Low Library? Do you know the real story about how Kermit was named? Did you know that Chris Gianone has incriminating pictures of me?
That Alan Crosswell is crankier than 99% of all human beings? That Millman really *is* cool.
That Maurice is *still* faster than everyone else?
I think not!
And yes, there are lots of bits & pieces of TOPS-20 that you can see in unix. Where do you think the idea behind 'completion' came from in TCSH? Where do you think EMACS came from (instead of being a dumped LISP environment, it was a dumped TECO environment on the 20).
a 36-bit word has four 9 bit bytes? not really.
the 20 had byte instructions that took the size of a byte as an instruction parameter. i recall
one c compiler that stored literal strings as four 9-bit bytes. but it was not a natural fit for
the 20. far more common than four 9-bit bytes was five 7-bit bytes (remember ASCII really only has 128 codes) with one wasted bit per word. that's the way text files were commonly represented.
Think "DEC". Think "Boston". Think "MIT".
Think "AI". Think "Lisp". Think "lists".
Think "cons cell". Think "car" and "cdr".
The 20 had instructions for manipulating
18-bit halfwords. Each 18-bit half-word
could store an address. Thus, each 36-bit
full-world could store a cons cell.
And yes, I still have a copy of my SYSDPY.INI
file.
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do you miss running the macro in the q-register .m? do you miss the Ivory loader? do you yearn for the days when you could use DDT to drop a -1 in register 1 and then logout by directly executing the LGOUT% jsys?
competition with china is a huge political issue in the midwest. it is likely this is about scoring pre-election political points.
you think separate panels for separate windows is a *feature*? that's a huge FAIL. if you are in the >2 monitor zone, you are almost surely using xinerama. that means no XRANDR. and no way to maximize a window to one physical screen or all physical screens. roll in virtual desktops and try to use focus-follow-mouse and watch kwin give you mulit-second focus change latencies. and konsole? konsole?? it's barely maintained. it's "profiles" support is unbelievably buggy and has been so across release after release. clearly there is no one left who understands it. the strong impression given off by all of this is that KDE is developed by youths on single-screen desktops who quiver in delight while working on the 'social desktop' while basic functionality like speedy focus shifting and tty-based computing is left in the dust.
but who watches the watchpoints?? :-)
i've been a WSJ online subscribe for over a decade. the last time i was up for renewal, the subscription rate doubled. i punted. a month or so later, i received an offer to subscribe at my old rate. i accepted. my subscription is up for renewal again. the price was double *and* they were trying to automatically renew it. i called and said unless you match last year's price (or lower) and unless you suspend automatic renewal, i'm gone. these people are OUT OF THEIR MINDS.
is it true the smart rats escaped and made a beeline to 85 Broad St, NY, NY?
realy? i nailed the first post??
... going to send a bag of clubs and some balls to Mars too?
the redmond hegemony lost the internet protocol battle and decided to fight back with semantically rich but proprietary file systems (think 'halloween memo', 'longhorn', 'groove'). are you thinking about how to mutate ReiserFS to support arbitrary object attributes, full-text indexing, callbacks, namespace syntax for queries, etc?
groove has hundreds of employees and funding from the borg. and some have suggested they have no real sales. could groove be a component of the halloween memo strategy (rich, proprietary protcools)? like the new structured file system that is part of longhorn?
how do you use the the linux-wlan-ng drivers to support it? e.g. from mandrake 8.2?
Outed! By an Anonymous coward! Sounds like Carbo-loado to me.
Did Frank tell you about the time when he & a bunch of other radicals occupied Grayson Kirk's office in Low Library? Do you know the real story about how Kermit was named? Did you know that Chris Gianone has incriminating pictures of me? That Alan Crosswell is crankier than 99% of all human beings? That Millman really *is* cool. That Maurice is *still* faster than everyone else? I think not! And yes, there are lots of bits & pieces of TOPS-20 that you can see in unix. Where do you think the idea behind 'completion' came from in TCSH? Where do you think EMACS came from (instead of being a dumped LISP environment, it was a dumped TECO environment on the 20).
a 36-bit word has four 9 bit bytes? not really. the 20 had byte instructions that took the size of a byte as an instruction parameter. i recall one c compiler that stored literal strings as four 9-bit bytes. but it was not a natural fit for the 20. far more common than four 9-bit bytes was five 7-bit bytes (remember ASCII really only has 128 codes) with one wasted bit per word. that's the way text files were commonly represented.
Think "DEC". Think "Boston". Think "MIT". Think "AI". Think "Lisp". Think "lists". Think "cons cell". Think "car" and "cdr". The 20 had instructions for manipulating 18-bit halfwords. Each 18-bit half-word could store an address. Thus, each 36-bit full-world could store a cons cell. And yes, I still have a copy of my SYSDPY.INI file.