The SGIs mentioned in the article are Visual Workstations, i.e. just Intel boxes with proprietary chipsets and bus controllers. What you're talking about is probably an SGI Indigo or one of its relatives; to use that, you'll probably have to go with NetBSD (although I'm not sure if their sgimips port will work on the older models).
HAHAHAHAHA.... someone with a uid in the mid-200000 range is bitching about how Slashdot isn't what it used to be?!?
Look around you... the cause of that deterioration is your fellow 5-digit buddies.
1) Darwin is based on FreeBSD, which has just recently started integrating MP (giant kernel lock in 4.x, fine-grained locking in 5.x), so any MP in Darwin is likely to be an Apple-developed extension.
You forgot the bear's fiery furry slippers. Ralph Bakshi has a lot to answer for (although it should be noted that he ran out of funding part of the way through, which is why the second movie was never made).
Also used in Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series...
Mainly in the Hawkmoon series. I always found the idea of ornithopters to be a nice retro touch - it gives a decadent air that you can't get from helicopters or normal aircraft.
Actually, I've found it pretty much impossible to strip a Red Hat install down to anything less than 250MB without resorting to --nodeps, which kind of defeats the purpose of having an RPM database.
At one point, the C64 was the best-selling home computer of all time, so I don't think the idea of "less popular means technically better" holds true in that case...
Well, almost right.... but no, NetBSD will not run on a Mac Plus. It requires an MMU, which means either a 030-based machine or an 020-based machine with an addon card (although some 020 models did have a MMU as standard, I believe). The Mac Plus is a 68000 box.
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I have a dozen computers at home, of which only one dual-boots Windows (a laptop - some settings, like power management, can't be changed under Linux), and I've bought Q3, SoF, Civ, Heavy Gear 2, HoMM3, even Railroad Tycoon f'chrissakes.
You're mostly right, but JIS is a standard character set. The encodings used for that set include ISO-2022-JP (which, confusingly, is also called JIS), Shift-JIS and EUC. The ISO-2022-JP encoding, which uses escape sequences, is used mainly for email; EUC is mainly found on UNIX/Linux systems, and Shift-JIS was an implementation developed and used by Microsoft (and also used by Apple) that made some unfortunate alterations to the code points for half-size katakana characters, among other things, that basically stuffed up code conversions between the various encoding schemes. The best scheme for general use is EUC, in my opinion.
Kanji are usually input under Linux with kinput2 (although Netscape has always had a few... problems... in dealing with them). Luckily, Mozilla is much better in this respect.
Some programs, like Emacs, communicate directly with the Japanese conversion server (canna, Wnn[4|6], ATOK, etc.), but there are very few apps which can do this.
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Erk, sorry... I just noticed that you mentioned that it's an SGI O2. If so, then yes, NetBSD/sgimips should run on it.
The SGIs mentioned in the article are Visual Workstations, i.e. just Intel boxes with proprietary chipsets and bus controllers. What you're talking about is probably an SGI Indigo or one of its relatives; to use that, you'll probably have to go with NetBSD (although I'm not sure if their sgimips port will work on the older models).
HAHAHAHAHA.... someone with a uid in the mid-200000 range is bitching about how Slashdot isn't what it used to be?!?
Look around you... the cause of that deterioration is your fellow 5-digit buddies.
Jeez... the cold-fusion flap was when I was at university, and I'm not even thirty. Ten or eleven years ago would be more like it...
A couple of corrections:
1) Darwin is based on FreeBSD, which has just recently started integrating MP (giant kernel lock in 4.x, fine-grained locking in 5.x), so any MP in Darwin is likely to be an Apple-developed extension.
2) OpenBSD doesn't have MP.
I guess you must have skipped the day when they taught your class how to spell "grammar".
Suspend/resume is your friend...
You forgot the bear's fiery furry slippers. Ralph Bakshi has a lot to answer for (although it should be noted that he ran out of funding part of the way through, which is why the second movie was never made).
It was almost exactly like Yoda. After hearing this, I can't believe that Lucas didn't listen to this before holding auditions for Yoda's voice.
Wired: reading is not supposed to be a physical challenge.
Well, considering that rotating the magazine might be the most exercise some of their readers get that month, that's not necessarily true...
Also used in Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series...
Mainly in the Hawkmoon series. I always found the idea of ornithopters to be a nice retro touch - it gives a decadent air that you can't get from helicopters or normal aircraft.
Left out "Fear is the little death."
Probably because "little death" is a synonym for orgasm.
Actually, I've found it pretty much impossible to strip a Red Hat install down to anything less than 250MB without resorting to --nodeps, which kind of defeats the purpose of having an RPM database.
He has one. You don't.
At one point, the C64 was the best-selling home computer of all time, so I don't think the idea of "less popular means technically better" holds true in that case...
Well, almost right.... but no, NetBSD will not run on a Mac Plus. It requires an MMU, which means either a 030-based machine or an 020-based machine with an addon card (although some 020 models did have a MMU as standard, I believe). The Mac Plus is a 68000 box.
I have a dozen computers at home, of which only one dual-boots Windows (a laptop - some settings, like power management, can't be changed under Linux), and I've bought Q3, SoF, Civ, Heavy Gear 2, HoMM3, even Railroad Tycoon f'chrissakes.
Would you like to retract your statement?
That's www.onion.com, I believe.
I think the cause and effect are the other way 'round... rich countries with low poverty rates have better access to the Internet.
You're mostly right, but JIS is a standard character set. The encodings used for that set include ISO-2022-JP (which, confusingly, is also called JIS), Shift-JIS and EUC. The ISO-2022-JP encoding, which uses escape sequences, is used mainly for email; EUC is mainly found on UNIX/Linux systems, and Shift-JIS was an implementation developed and used by Microsoft (and also used by Apple) that made some unfortunate alterations to the code points for half-size katakana characters, among other things, that basically stuffed up code conversions between the various encoding schemes. The best scheme for general use is EUC, in my opinion.
Just wanted to add that anyone who wants to know more about the whole topic should start at this page.
The equivalent of xterm for Japanese systems is kterm, although some distros use a patched version of rxvt instead.
Most CJK-capable computers use a pretty standard QWERTY layout...
Kanji are usually input under Linux with kinput2 (although Netscape has always had a few... problems... in dealing with them). Luckily, Mozilla is much better in this respect.
Some programs, like Emacs, communicate directly with the Japanese conversion server (canna, Wnn[4|6], ATOK, etc.), but there are very few apps which can do this.
Am I wrong in thinking that "Algore" is supposed to be "Algol"? Or is there really a language/OS named Algore? And if so, is it really boring?