Posts by Børge Nøst 24 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2010
1984 was probably the last "innocent" Christmas where everybody expected that buying a computer was a one-and-done thing, it would carry you for years and years until the wheels fell off and when it did so you'd just move swiftly over to a new shiny one that was ofc just like the old one - know how to drive one car, know how to drive them all. And it would help you with your homework and prepare you for the future.
By 1985 there were new generations of computers and the punters could see that there was a divide in the market, that things were changing, stuff was getting more expensive the more "bitty" it was, and the "for business" stuff was obviously nothing like the "home" stuff and much more expensive. You certainly weren't bankrolling _yet_another_ home computer that would end up with the kids playing games on it; but give it a bit of time and you _might_ come around to invest in one of those 'serious' machines you could use for work-related stuff at home. Still, there's absolutely no chance of buying a _second_ computer in the home, and if they want to play games you know that there are some that can run on the serious machine - a mate you know said he could sort some for you.
So the old 8-bits were relegated to games machine, accepted as that, and continued to sell as such as they kept coming down and down in price, while the market for the 16-bits (IMO) was for those who had come out of the first round of home computers and found their 'mission' and were willing to prioritize money spent on those over the current pastimes of the yoofs of the day. The PC was ofc a runaway train that nobody can stop any longer, that rolled over all the others in the market.
This has been bleeding obvious to me for some time and I have just been waiting for it to happen. Perhaps now people will be more careful about what they make publicly available about themselves; the Nazis used yellow armbands to tag people, but this has the potential to show not only religion but so much more that you tag _yourself_ with.
I get this feeling of Neo walking in the matrix where the woman in red is, except you see info-tags being overlaid to pop up above all the people around you.
I hope that will involve microkernels, SASOS and the Mill cpu - the unholy trinity made for each other that I'm beginning to fear will never happen. (Someone please check in on the Mill company...)
Has anyone else amended their hw to fit sw ideas better? (Ok, ID-tagged caches are there, but that helps regular OSes too.)
We're looking into cloud services at the moment, but our conclusion is that if you are only looking at it as a server somewhere else, you're doing it wrong.
Unless you dig deep and use each and every service available you're probably just paying more for servers compared to what you would do in-house. And services can run on any architecture if you're talking to a network API.
So I'm not sure Linus is barking up the right tree...
If I didn't hate M$ from the bottom of my heart already, then this would be enough to tilt me.
First they kill the only really working Linux version in the 4.x series, then they want to replace the 7.x abomination with the dog-ugly 8.x. I would be ashamed to admit I am working on this product if I was one of the devs.
(Exception to the rule: Their Intellimouse is nice, even more so the new Classic one with higher DPI. But then again, that is a hw product...)
Sometime in the first half of the 80s one of my local toy shops had a sale on Lego and I found to my astonishment a 1969 model Ranger locomotive at cut-price. Not that I knew exactly that at the time, I only knew that I wanted one but they hadn't been in shops as long as I could remember. I'm pretty sure I even have the box back in mom's house. Looking at the model ads supplied in the box made me realize that train tech actually was worse in the 70s-80s then end of 60s.
I think I have seen it valued at $400. If I had more space I'd bring along my Lego stuff and build some train tracks and environment.
>I've just been looking on the Vampire website. It says fitting is very simple, but how so, when the >A600's 68000 chip appears to be surface mounted?
Have you ever seen an old vampire connector for ethernet - it just bit into the cable.
(AFAIK) The card has an upside-down 68000 size socket that you push down over the SMD cpu and it connects to all the pins. Then it just needs to set a few pins high or low so that the motherboard cpu is forever in limbo and the FPGA can drive the other pins without interference.
So now there are _two_ entitiies dealing 3.x versions (not including the ones behind 3.5 and 3.9), presumably both declaring all rights to both name, source and executable.
I'm not sure the legal trail will hold up to every bit of scrutiny, or, even if you can backtrack all the way to C=, if you are connecting with the part that actually held the right rights (the C= company structure was ...interesting and more suited for the owners to get away with everything and anything than to sell off).
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