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For some of us, it's exactly the right sort of SoC.

Chattanooga is a great town.

I used a Multiflow Trace back in the day. For certain types of apps (mechanical engineering simulations in our case), there were significant speedups. It was a weird box, though.

I think you're right as well, and in fact many companies grow quite large without having a CFO, and you certainly don't need a CFO to raise VC (a top flight lawyer is money better …

Nice catch, deevus.

SIMH runs VAX code an order of magnitude faster than any existing actual hardware.

Tell that to any adjunct professor you happen to meet.

I can't comment on the utility of Wordpress, but I can tell you it (or, more precisely, it's ecosystem) is a security cesspool. Check out http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-li…

Yeah...that's likely a scam.

> our offering is so much better than theirs that any > informed user choosing our competetion would be absurd Betamax was "better" than VCR; any "informed user" would have picked …

Actually, there's a whole niche market selling pallets of food like that to Mormons, as they're obligated by their faith to have a year or so of food/water/supplies.

Reminds me I need to get my VAX-11/730 back on the net. Built in 1983. BSD 4.3. No GUI.

Wow, that's a mind-boggling false equivalence. Tips, being optional, incent a waiter to excel. Bribes, not typically being optional, only incent the corrupt policemen to catch as m…

Agreed, mostly. We always maintained a pool of "disposable" kit (laptop, phones, etc) with a minimum of "stuff" loaded (OS, major productivity apps, some publicly available documen…

You are of course correct. Clearly a couple of faulty brain cells in those memories.

Will that do anything about preventing "condescending fuckwit" behavior? I'm betting not.

Assuming you can read. And can read the language it's written in. Neither of those is a given.

I didn't. Somewhere along the line, however, she became that person.

Doom multiplayer networking ran over IPX, not TCP/IP, and used a multicast to find other clients. So...trick question: none?

For what task? There are things I use Python for; others I use C. That said...I'd never use PHP for anything I had a say in.

Not at all. My first wife not only didn't know what I really did for a living ("Oh...he does something in IT..."), she didn't give two shits as long as the money kept coming. And i…

See: Strontium-90

You're actually right...IA-64 was suppose to be the 64-bit Intel instruction set, right up until AMD dropped the AMD64 bomb and the market went "backward compatible...got to get me…

As someone who flew every week for about 20 years, the idea of not traveling with a bag to be gone for a week or needing to change flights periodically is pretty strange.

Wirth likes to design computer architectures to go with the languages he creates (he's got a EE undergrad). He did (at least) p-Machine & p-Code (Pascal virtual machine), Lilith (2…