The programmers' holy grail, stuff of legends, the Lisp machine. It was virtualized by Symbolics and ported to the 64-bit Alpha. If I remember right, the Symbolics LispM had a variable length word and Megaword, which made the Alpha the only viable option. I believed it utilized Alpha microcode, and required Digital Unix to work correctly. The new "operating-system" was called Genera. I have a copy of it (somewhere around here) I intend to buy a Multia for myself someday, but I wonder if there was still some interest in porting Genera to a 64-bit x86? Hope so.
It would be great if someone was able to dig up some of these p-Systems and documentation and made them available. I imagine only binaries would be available. Wouldn't they scream on today's computers?
Unfortunately the present copyright system encourages defensiveness and the "but where's my share?" mentality. If the "Wayback machine" is crippled or killed, entire old internet sites would probably be pirated, traded or sold. BTW: I know I wouldn't want to work for someone who searched my adolescent transgressions, which may be found on school records, police records and who knows where else. It would reflect more on the seeker than the writer, I think.
Actually the third-party manufacturing in Mexico is an elaborate money laundering scheme run by Steve Jobs, which finances an atomic Death-Ray for Bill Gates as part of his plan to rule the world!
I hope this clarifies the subsidy/manufacturing issues.
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You would perhaps be more credible if you didn't start off by whining about the term, "so-called" for one thing, the word can be used literally, as in the name a thing is known by, and not just sarcasticly. It's petty of you to complain about it anyways. I also think that your interpretation of his theories on natural selection is wrong- "Complexity" of life and the mechanisms of evolution are two different issues. I'm sure he doesn't think "any kind of mutants you put together would be just as viable" And claiming that he does gives you zero credibility
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What the hell are you talking about! It's a collector's item. Like old books or old coins, cars or baseball memorabilia. Not to mention that there are people for whom a grand is chump change. Talk about lack of sense, did you think anyone would be buying these for practical use? Why do you think people pay money for old paintings from poeple long dead, when they could get a brand new painting on brand new canvas!
Hey, the shit I pirate is very meaningful!;) Its when I pay for things, I get stuck with the meaningless stuff, and the same goes for the bloated apps. If I can get consistant quality, I'll gladly pay for it. Welcome to the Infomation age- the problem is finding quality information within endless quantities.
This spelling correction isn't offtopic, in fact it demonstrates the potential problems with such storage medium. As one poster joked "What if one's data contains dimpled chads? How will those bits be counted?" Imagine searching for data corruption or even spelling errors within 120Gb. Even if its the size of a postage stamp,if it takes a long time to write and longer to read back, its use would be very limited. Especially if the data in question were comments from/.ers
Last year, when I applied to the company, I got the impression that they were doing a lot of stuff in java, esp web services. This may or may not have to do with achieving platform independence, in which case Linux would be a logical step. Or maybe their newer products have suffered from lackluster sales.
Gamers would have to have some idea of what they're talking about to "extreme slow gaming." Anybody can go out and get a high-end card or a new system and brag about how "fast" it runs. And most of the time that's exactly what you are hearing from gamers. This brings me back to the times I played mid-90's games on my trusty B&W Mac Classic or playing arcade games with a number-pad instead of a joystick or trackball. The joys of lo-tech
ATT is slowly changing to "digital cable" with extra services. They will make ordinary cable obsolete, so they probably just don't care to go through the expense anyways.
In Arlington MA, just outside of Cambridge, I've subscribed to digital cable with a Motorola cable box. I has parental controls, more chanels(up to 999), digital music, HDTV, show listings and guides... basically things I could get with satellite, DVD player or VCR. Probably a waste of money, but I'm sure AT&T would like to transition everyone into this service. So far, I haven't seen any descramblers for Digital Cable, and perhaps it would be too expensive to do so.
If somebody cares enough to answer, perhaps someone could also include mklinux (micro-kernel linux) in the comparisons. I've been told that OSF's mklinux is very different from Hurd, and there's not much comparison. Is there more to be compared and contrasted between the three?
Article was way too long. I'll answer the generation gap theory in four words, "Cold War, Soviet Union" The "rebel alliance" fighting against the "Empire" was more relevant in the Cold War days.
These would be great for beginner hardware hacking if the price plummetted!
It would be even better if M$ made a laptop Xbox!!
Get your mind outta the gutter(those of you who have minds)
A portable, "notebook" Xbox would be very cool.
Good Article! Kill the Elite Techies!
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I think its great that someone should be using old 386's. Not everyone who reads/. works where there's bucketfuls of 30-pin simms! and In fact, part of the reason old stuff is sometimes hard to find is because you corporate morons warehouse everything instead of putting it back into circulation. I hate you sitting back on your fat asses, laughing at anyone without an engineering degree. Screw you, the less of you out there, the more likely I could fill one of your jobs
I pray everyday that, no matter how many species we wipe out, that along the way, we extinguish ourselves. The "environment" dies, or thrives: who cares? As long as the planetary cancer we call humanity is wiped out. I was very dissappointed when the Cold War ended, but I think the possibility of nuking ourselves out is still good. c'mon American, let's start by bringing real piece to Tibet, by wiping it off the face of the Earth! Until then, embrace Slack!
Quite a few people have made comments like
1)Office would longer available on any apple lines, neither is Explorer. 2)Office XP++ wouldn't write in any format office X can read. 3)Office would never be available for OSX on Intel.
Bullshit. Apple would just have to lie, cheat and steal, like Microsoft did with IBM and OS2. They could pretend to cooperate with M$ at first, then renig. I think if anyone could do this to M$, it would be Jobs.
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I bet you kick homeless bums and tell them to get a job. Your day will come buddy, and you better hope future potential employers aren't reading your dumb-ass comment
Yeah I suppose some of your best friends are black, too. Who is acting out their own issues- I think you're the one "acting out your own issues in public." High horse? Why don't you get out of the cynical hole you've crawled into. No one's really interested in your preferences, The "insight into the subject" crap. I wish you would maintain a bit of objectivity. Why don't you criticize Terry Gross or the show- The author's not a professional interviewee after all
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No its not a biography! Its a movie "based on the life of"
That's the point. I wouldn't pay money to watch a "biography" -
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Ever hear that there's such a thing as a benign tumor? And maybe love isn't the only thing, but It's an important part of recovery.
It sounds like you've never encountered someone with schizophrenia. Imagine if halfway through college you became unable to talk, unable to communicate, plagued with thoughts of suicide. I'm a mental health therapist and I see its victims everyday. One in four schizophrenics commits suicide. Most are plagued with health problems, including a parkinson's-like disease that is a side effect of most anti-psychotics. If thee's anything woth crying about pal, its the struggle of a person who has this disease.
try ingesting large doses of LSD everyday for fifty years- that's what schizophrenia like. Then tell me how fucking maudlin the author is.
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The programmers' holy grail, stuff of legends, the Lisp machine. It was virtualized by Symbolics and ported to the 64-bit Alpha. If I remember right, the Symbolics LispM had a variable length word and Megaword, which made the Alpha the only viable option. I believed it utilized Alpha microcode, and required Digital Unix to work correctly. The new "operating-system" was called Genera. I have a copy of it (somewhere around here) I intend to buy a Multia for myself someday, but I wonder if there was still some interest in porting Genera to a 64-bit x86? Hope so.
It would be great if someone was able to dig up some of these p-Systems and documentation and made them available. I imagine only binaries would be available. Wouldn't they scream on today's computers?
Unfortunately the present copyright system encourages defensiveness and the "but where's my share?" mentality.
If the "Wayback machine" is crippled or killed, entire old internet sites would probably be pirated, traded or sold.
BTW: I know I wouldn't want to work for someone who searched my adolescent transgressions, which may be found on school records, police records and who knows where else. It would reflect more on the seeker than the writer, I think.
Actually the third-party manufacturing in Mexico is an elaborate money laundering scheme run by Steve Jobs, which finances an atomic Death-Ray for Bill Gates as part of his plan to rule the world!
I hope this clarifies the subsidy/manufacturing issues.
You would perhaps be more credible if you didn't start off by whining about the term, "so-called" for one thing, the word can be used literally, as in the name a thing is known by, and not just sarcasticly. It's petty of you to complain about it anyways. I also think that your interpretation of his theories on natural selection is wrong- "Complexity" of life and the mechanisms of evolution are two different issues. I'm sure he doesn't think "any kind of mutants you put together would be just as viable" And claiming that he does gives you zero credibility
What the hell are you talking about! It's a collector's item. Like old books or old coins, cars or baseball memorabilia. Not to mention that there are people for whom a grand is chump change. Talk about lack of sense, did you think anyone would be buying these for practical use?
Why do you think people pay money for old paintings from poeple long dead, when they could get a brand new painting on brand new canvas!
Hey, the shit I pirate is very meaningful! ;)
Its when I pay for things, I get stuck with the meaningless stuff, and the same goes for the bloated apps. If I can get consistant quality, I'll gladly pay for it. Welcome to the Infomation age- the problem is finding quality information within endless quantities.
This spelling correction isn't offtopic, in fact it demonstrates the potential problems with such storage medium. As one poster joked "What if one's data contains dimpled chads? How will those bits be counted?" Imagine searching for data corruption or even spelling errors within 120Gb. Even if its the size of a postage stamp,if it takes a long time to write and longer to read back, its use would be very limited. Especially if the data in question were comments from /.ers
Last year, when I applied to the company, I got the impression that they were doing a lot of stuff in java, esp web services. This may or may not have to do with achieving platform independence, in which case Linux would be a logical step. Or maybe their newer products have suffered from lackluster sales.
Gamers would have to have some idea of what they're talking about to "extreme slow gaming." Anybody can go out and get a high-end card or a new system and brag about how "fast" it runs. And most of the time that's exactly what you are hearing from gamers.
This brings me back to the times I played mid-90's games on my trusty B&W Mac Classic or playing arcade games with a number-pad instead of a joystick or trackball. The joys of lo-tech
ATT is slowly changing to "digital cable" with extra services. They will make ordinary cable obsolete, so they probably just don't care to go through the expense anyways.
In Arlington MA, just outside of Cambridge, I've subscribed to digital cable with a Motorola cable box. I has parental controls, more chanels(up to 999), digital music, HDTV, show listings and guides... basically things I could get with satellite, DVD player or VCR. Probably a waste of money, but I'm sure AT&T would like to transition everyone into this service. So far, I haven't seen any descramblers for Digital Cable, and perhaps it would be too expensive to do so.
If somebody cares enough to answer, perhaps someone could also include mklinux (micro-kernel linux) in the comparisons. I've been told that OSF's mklinux is very different from Hurd, and there's not much comparison. Is there more to be compared and contrasted between the three?
Article was way too long. I'll answer the generation gap theory in four words, "Cold War, Soviet Union"
The "rebel alliance" fighting against the "Empire" was more relevant in the Cold War days.
The marketplace once again demonstrates just how much real life sucks.
These would be great for beginner hardware hacking if the price plummetted! It would be even better if M$ made a laptop Xbox!! Get your mind outta the gutter(those of you who have minds) A portable, "notebook" Xbox would be very cool.
I think its great that someone should be using old 386's. Not everyone who reads /. works where there's bucketfuls of 30-pin simms! and In fact, part of the reason old stuff is sometimes hard to find is because you corporate morons warehouse everything instead of putting it back into circulation. I hate you sitting back on your fat asses, laughing at anyone without an engineering degree. Screw you, the less of you out there, the more likely I could fill one of your jobs
I pray everyday that, no matter how many species we wipe out, that along the way, we extinguish ourselves. The "environment" dies, or thrives: who cares? As long as the planetary cancer we call humanity is wiped out. I was very dissappointed when the Cold War ended, but I think the possibility of nuking ourselves out is still good. c'mon American, let's start by bringing real piece to Tibet, by wiping it off the face of the Earth!
Until then, embrace Slack!
Timothy's post blows. How the hell did this get onto Slashdot?
Quite a few people have made comments like
1)Office would longer available on any apple lines, neither is Explorer. 2)Office XP++ wouldn't write in any format office X can read. 3)Office would never be available for OSX on Intel.
Bullshit. Apple would just have to lie, cheat and steal, like Microsoft did with IBM and OS2. They could pretend to cooperate with M$ at first, then renig. I think if anyone could do this to M$, it would be Jobs.
I bet you kick homeless bums and tell them to get a job. Your day will come buddy, and you better hope future potential employers aren't reading your dumb-ass comment
Yeah I suppose some of your best friends are black, too. Who is acting out their own issues- I think you're the one "acting out your own issues in public." High horse? Why don't you get out of the cynical hole you've crawled into. No one's really interested in your preferences, The "insight into the subject" crap. I wish you would maintain a bit of objectivity. Why don't you criticize Terry Gross or the show- The author's not a professional interviewee after all
No its not a biography! Its a movie "based on the life of"
That's the point. I wouldn't pay money to watch a "biography" -
Ever hear that there's such a thing as a benign tumor? And maybe love isn't the only thing, but It's an important part of recovery.
It sounds like you've never encountered someone with schizophrenia. Imagine if halfway through college you became unable to talk, unable to communicate, plagued with thoughts of suicide. I'm a mental health therapist and I see its victims everyday. One in four schizophrenics commits suicide. Most are plagued with health problems, including a parkinson's-like disease that is a side effect of most anti-psychotics. If thee's anything woth crying about pal, its the struggle of a person who has this disease.
try ingesting large doses of LSD everyday for fifty years- that's what schizophrenia like. Then tell me how fucking maudlin the author is.