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One thing that sticks in my mind was that the system call API was well-designed (by Frank Holsworth). Everything involved getting or setting tables (structures). The documentation …

That's interesting. I left DRI just before Novell bought it, and wasn't aware of anybody besides IBM using it.

I worked at Digital Research from 1984 to 1990. CP/M-68K was the first operating system I used there, but only for a brief period. It's unfortunate that the source for FlexOS is no…

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> Why do you need to run the browser on the server? I can't think of a case where you would want to use a text browser there instead of a regular browser on your actual machine. I'…

Crystal compiles directly to object code, using LLVM. It does provide the ability to interoperate with C code; as an example, I use this feature to call ncursesw functions from Cry…

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As others have mentioned, Crystal is close to Ruby in many ways, such that some simpler code will port straight over. I've managed to port a large Ruby application (the sup email c…

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My ex-wife had the same name as a woman in another state who had beaten up a cop and done jail time. So every time my wife's driver's license came up for renewal, the DMV decided s…