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It's important in the historical context of the Alpha AXP to also remember the DEC PRISM architecture. Canceled in 1988. One of many architectures killed off by DEC. https://en.wik…

https://web.archive.org/web/20250410222119/https://www.n1kdo... Your AS might be blocked by firewall rules. The Wayback Machine can show you the page.

I saw somebody's arduino based voltmeter clock way back around 2014, I think here: https://maniacallabs.com/2014/07/08/meter-clock-pt1/ I thought it was pretty cool, but a bit expe…

That page does not include VMS DECwindows Motif, so here is a link: https://www.xanthos.se/~joachim/OpenVMS.html VMS DECwindows Motif 1.0 was released in August 1991; it is difficu…

Only Boulder servers lost sync. To say NIST was off is clickbait hyperbole. This page: https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi shows that NIST has > 16 NTP servers on IPv4, of those…

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IMHO, "tech optimism" reached its peak in 1969 when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon. We watched them walk on the Moon on live TV. After seeing them perform that impossible …

I have taken three of those classes as part of the Online Master of Cybersecurity program. They were all excellent. I can say that the assignments were an important part of the lea…

How many times has this problem been "solved"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE/RPC DCE/RPC worked in 1993, and still does today. Protocol buffers is just another IDL.

This is highly relevant: "Meta in talks to spend billions on Google's chips, The Information reports" https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-talks-spend-billions-g...

I still have a PDP-11 Programming Card I bought at that Digital retail store. That was an interesting place. As I recall, there also was a AT&T store in that mall where you could b…

This book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games I was exposed to this book in about 1975 when I was in detention in the math teacher's room. It set me on a path to pr…

The list does not include DECterm. https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/net/dev/system/pmax_ul3/srvd.74/us... Maybe it's hard to find these days. However it had the best VT220 emulation I hav…

It's not just radio towers. I've seen aircraft warning lights on tall buildings, particularly those near airports. see https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-E.…

this is related: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2845330/hundreds-of-chrome-e... The TL;DR is that there are malicious browser plugins that make the browser into a web scraping bot…

Some businesses are still using DEC PDP-11s, first released in the 1970s. Those are even more "ancient." Many of these are used for industrial controls, among other applications. s…

Thanks. I'll stick to a walkie-talkie. FRS radios are cheap, easily obtainable, and will work as far or farther than this 915 MHz stuff. If you get into deep shit, some amateur FM …

They were inexpensive when compared with a VAXstation II/GPX!

It was the interoperability of X Window System devices that enabled this. Your X server (e.g. a X terminal) could display applications running on a variety of other vendors' hardwa…

I can tell you that lights strobing exacerbate my migraines. Even 120 hertz from fluorescent lights will affect me. I have mitigated this in the past by adding incandescent lights …

This is related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Nuclear_Aircraft_Labor... my understanding is that the area is still a bit "hot" with radiation.

My recollection (which could be rusty, it has been >30 years) is that the Motif API, coded in C, implemented a kind of polymorphism.

VAX Notes. Perhaps the original groupware. Not really useful without collaborators any more, since DEC is dead and took that cultural fork with it. See https://thoughtsofanidlemind…

Ken Thompson's talk (later a paper) "reflections on trusting trust." https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210

usability test much? effectively unreadable.