What have we lost? [video]
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What have we lost? [video]
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Re: What have we lost? [video]
#2This talk looks pretty epic. I'm glad this discussion is being injected into the mainstream. I wish every one had an opportunity to use a network computing environment such as MIT Athena once in their lives. The original plan wasn't simply to grant blanket licenses for science and simulation software to users in the academic community. But create a true edtech platform that could be used to learn anything: languages, design, entrepreneurship, etc.
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#3My university used to have researchers offer to pay students for testing out new OS ideas, such as 3D visualization of file systems. Some ideas looked super brilliant, but I had to look over at the researcher and smile because I didn't know how to use it. Neither would my grandmother. Sometimes the simplest ideas win.
Re: What have we lost? [video]
#4This talk looks pretty epic. I'm glad this discussion is being injected into the mainstream. I wish every one had an opportunity to use a network computing environment such as MIT Athena once in their lives. The original plan wasn't simply to grant blanket licenses for science and simulation software to users in the academic community. But create a true edtech platform that could be used to learn anything: languages,…
AFS, Zephyr, Kerberos, BatMail in emacs--all mind-expanding stuff to me way back when!
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#5Did we really “lose” the Lisp Machine, or did we just realize that compiling Lisp to a general-purpose instruction set like x86 and then having someone else in charge of creating hardware to efficiently execute that is much more clever?
Re: What have we lost? [video]
#6On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNbIEJvjUA
(The media.ccc.de server was a bit slow for me.)
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#7Relevant: "Why KeyKOS is fascinating" - https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/41
Re: What have we lost? [video]
#8On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNbIEJvjUA (The media.ccc.de server was a bit slow for me.)
Most mirrors are in Germany: https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/rc3/h264-hd/rc3-r3s-20-eng-W...
Re: What have we lost? [video]
#9Did we really “lose” the Lisp Machine, or did we just realize that compiling Lisp to a general-purpose instruction set like x86 and then having someone else in charge of creating hardware to efficiently execute that is much more clever?
We lost the environment where the whole OS was a debugger, and everything could be inspected and modified as the system was running.
Re: What have we lost? [video]
#10My university used to have researchers offer to pay students for testing out new OS ideas, such as 3D visualization of file systems. Some ideas looked super brilliant, but I had to look over at the researcher and smile because I didn't know how to use it. Neither would my grandmother. Sometimes the simplest ideas win.
> 3D visualization of file systems
> I didn't know how to use it
Skateboard around thorough virtual file systems like "Plague" in the movie Hackers[1][2]