Hm, maybe posting this to HN wasn't the best idea...?
Still hanging in there so far! Bit slow, but still faster than cnn.com for me.
This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator
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#112Now I want to see a website hosted by my favorite graphing calculator, the one that comes with the best UX for operating on numbers - RPN (Reverse Polish Notation). HP-48G
Thanks for reminding me that I used to play Columns and other games on my HP during math class.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back in my day it was a Beowulf cluster running on hot grits serving Natalie Portman pictures
Oh man, Beowulf clusters, I forgot all about those. How come we never hear about them anymore?
I'm guessing because recurring one-liners don't do as well here as they did on SlashDot.
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#114Doesn't this run on one of the CPUs Sega used in the Saturn or Dreamcast?
Same as in the Dreamcast yes, albeit the Casio seems to be clocked far lower (29mhz in Casio vs 200mhz for DC). Also the memory seems a bit anemic at 60ish-kb vs 16mb main for the DC (+8mb videomem and 2mb audiomem). It was a fine CPU for the era with parallel instructions but also a fairly deep pipe compared to other contemporaries so it did best with a bit of hand tuning. (We worked on a DC game and Transform&Light…
>29mhz in Casio
It's extremely overclockable, though: http://pm.matrix.jp/ftune2e.html
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I searched for graphing calculator apps on iOS the other day and found a ton that simply attempt to recreate the TI-84, e.g. [1]. So anyone with high school kids: are they still buying $100 physical calculators? Or are they just using free/cheap apps? [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator-x84/id1247...
I'm a few years out of high school, but during my time anything other than physical calculators were explicitly banned due to the potential for kids to be accessing the internet during exams. I even had a friend who won one of TI's higher end calculators at a math competition, only for him to be banned to use it during exams because of its higher capabilities. Perhaps things have changed in the post-Covid world.
In my high school physics and math classes, we were allowed to run any programs that we programmed ourselves. This was on Ti-84s so BASIC not Python.
Given the context, it made a lot of sense.
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#117For comparison: the 32X and Saturn used SH2 processors.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back in my day it was a Beowulf cluster running on hot grits serving Natalie Portman pictures
Oh man, Beowulf clusters, I forgot all about those. How come we never hear about them anymore?
"Running MPI programs on a cluster of commodity hardware" was perhaps a sufficiently novel idea to warrant a unique name back in the 90s, but these days it's more or less the standard for all but the most exotic and expensive of scientific computing... and even those expensive custom supercomputers tend to still be x86 processors running MPI code.
Basically you don't hear about them any more because it's all Beowulf clusters now.
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#119Last year I bought I used TI for my daughter who needed it for school. I got her the oldest version, the one which takes AAA batteries and communicates with the outside world through a serial link. A project like this brings to mind the possibility of stuffing a Raspberry Pi Zero in the battery compartment, hooking it up to the school WiFi, using a terminal app on the calculator to communicate with the Pi and in that way voiding the whole reason of using these ancient beasts in the first place. I won't do this of course - she's there to learn other things besides refining the art of cheating [1] - but it would be a tempting hack. An even more elaborate hack would be to replace the guts of the thing with a Zero running a TI emulator as well as some more useful stuff like ssh. The possibilities are endless... so endless in fact that I'm fairly certain this has been done already, somewhere.
[1] which in my days at school consisted of writing the translated works of Homer on a 10x10cm piece of paper, a good way to a) learn to write incredibly small and b) get those words to stick inside your head long enough so you don't actually need to consult the cheat "sheet" during the test.
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#120based on the hostname, although the httpd isn't answering, it makes me wonder if they also made the calculator speak BGP and take a full ipv4/ipv6 BGP table. Somehow with the RAM requirements I doubt it.
lol! The IP stack does not have forwarding support, but I guess you could implement some rudimentary loopback announcement support.