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*controllers Too bad Oxide's non-BMC[0] service processor or something similar isn't available on all servers. [0] https://oxide.computer/faq-friday/is-the-oxide-service-proce...

> At that stage it shipped with Arthur because, or so we were told, the "actual" OS was still in development. I think this was ARX[0], which was overambitious. Arthur apparently st…

IBM's System/38 / AS/400 / iSeries / i5 / i has had 128bit pointers for its Technology Independent Machine Interface. The System/38 was released in 1980.

> play Tux Racer on my very own Z17 Interesting. It looks like Debian has a Tux Racer package for Extreme Tux Racer on s390x. I guess it'd be remote graphics, and not accelerated.

Interesting. If it's accurate, Apple sure has a nice markup. Side note: I wished they'd chosen more distinctive colours for the charts.

There's a good series of articles on WebForce by the person at SGI who had the idea. Starts here: https://therealmccrea.com/2014/01/09/january-1994-a-very-goo...

"Musk promises". Sure. "SpaceX policy regarding data retention. It is actually helpful for debugging issues if we can retain some amount of data, so allowing this would be apprecia…

> one of the few games that supported the non-standard sound card on my parents IBM PS/1. Actually think it might have been bundled with that PS/1 It was. https://pixelatedarcade.c…

> Silpheed by Sierra On-Line for the PC — ported from the Japanese PC-8801 — was similarly good, possibly the first game I played with a proper sound card. I had a similar experien…

Link to the 14 page report[0]. The fact that they refused to release the un-redacted report is troubling for many reasons. The most probable on reason they didn't was because the p…

After Compaq bought Tandem, they said they were going to port NonStop from MIPS to the Alpha[0], but then cancelled that for Itanium[1]. I'm not sure if NonStop was ported/expanded…

As a lucky kid, I remember watching in awe, a postage stamp size video from a CD-ROM encyclopedia on my 486SX. Around the same time I got to see some Sun SPARCstations with an insa…

As a side-note, it's interesting that all of the released versions of NT on Alpha were 32 bit. Raymond Chen has a blog post[0] about using Alpha to develop 64bit Windows before Ita…

It was supposed to make porting PC games easier - Windows CE had DirectX, I'm not sure if it was a subset.

I ~~can't~~ won't use the new ( decade+ old? )reddit. From the Reddit Post announcing this, : "In case you are wondering . . . Q: Is Reddit shutting down Old Reddit? A: Not right n…

> those big SUNs I'm pretty sure all the big Sun boxes were SMP, not NUMA, at least during the dot-com era. Not sure about later UltraSPARC T or M Series systems.

Previous Discussion about QSOE: QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture (qsoe-dev.blogspot.com) 44 points by ymz5 3 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 27 commen…

Nitpick: Facebook bought WhatsApp, it didn't make it.

It's amazing how many different, incompatible computer systems IBM had back then.

The WSJ has a decent article about why it takes so long to build Patriot missiles and increase their production. (It wasn't paywalled for me). https://www.wsj.com/world/why-does-it…

"From the archives, a bit of info on AltaVista: The Hardware Behind AltaVista AltaVista: AlphaStation 500, 256 MB memory, 6GB disk. AlphaStation 500's handle all external traffic t…

> Why is the latter worse than the former ? I'm not sure about worse, but think one of the differences would be the size of the 'kill zone' and the cost/availability. 10 quadcopter…

I'm curious what model of PS/1? My first PC was a PS/1 model 2011, with a 286@10Mhz. Also, there's an emulator for PS/1 machines at https://www.ibmulator.org/