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These are properly called "GPUs", as in "Grep Processing Units"!
As you seem to be the author: will this run on a voyage 200? Also: very impressive.
Honestly, I don't understand this. AFAIK colorForth was a standalone system for Pentium class machines. How do Windows updates come into this?
Posted by
alexshendi on Saturday October 18, 2025 @12:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Dear Auntie HN,I recently tried QuarterDeck DesqView for multitasking (16 bit real mode) applications. It installed allright, but I couldn't get it to multitask PC-Scheme (More precisely PCS/Geneva 4.02PL1) properly. Could you recommend any alternative DOS Versions or task switchers better suited to that?Programs I didn't try
* MS multitasking DOS (to which the source was released not long...
My favourite is Texas Instruments PC-Scheme. Complete with Emacs-like editor. You could compile and evaluate regions in the editor. It is amazing what you can do in 2MB or even 640K.
This motivates me to try this on my Ministrel 4th (21th century Jupiter Ace clone).
Common Object File Format (COFF)?
I think once you get rid of dynamic libraries and GUIs your software rot will be greatly reduced.
OSS as in "Office of Strategic Services"?
Does it come with dtksh?
(dtksh or dtmksh, not sure)
There's also s4iof (R4RS), s5iof (R5RS) and skint (R7RS, but hey 5 .c files), all from the same people. I might interject that R4RS might seem preferable for the minimalist cadre.
I couldn't do it.
I suppose I'm a Russian CyberBot!
дружба!
Great paper. Don't know how I managed to miss it.
I think we need a 1337 cent coin!
Posted by
alexshendi on Monday September 02, 2024 @04:32PM
from the t3x.org dept.
Posted by
alexshendi on Saturday August 31, 2024 @12:54PM
from the t3x.org dept.
I once joined a Clojure group for reading SICM. But then the discussion turned out to be more about porting the stuff to Clojure than physics.
This is one of a slew of articles containing the following claims:
* magnet material was created used a new "AI platform"
* development process is 200x faster
* (raw ?) material costs are down to 50%
* carbon material emissions down to 70%
What is not said:
* Any kind of detail about the magnet material or material performance
Overall they seem much more intent on selling their "innovative, new AI material design process" than the material process
END_OF_RANT
Wait until the hype is over?
Maybe you'd be interested in this:
https://github.com/timonoko/Nokolisp_On_Nokia_phone
But I can't figure out how to install it, while I know how to build nokolisp with MASM. Thus the MSDOS based Nokolisp is more useful, at least for me.
BTW the cited HN posting contains at least one factual error: The Nokia Communicator 9110 was based on an 486SX SOC, not an 80186.
But to each his own.
You probably only need access to DOS on your Communicator. To achieve this you need to create a file B:\NOKIA\INSTALL.BAT and reboot the communicator. From this batch file you can call Nokolisp. If "INSTALL.BAT" exits the normal GEOS shell will start.
But still impressive. I will see, if I can massage Justine Tunney's sectorlisp into something resembling a (subset of) LOGO, probably w/o turtle graphics. Deliverable will probably be a DOS COM-file rather than a boot sector.
No way to define procedures and no list processing? Hardly LOGO.
* Is Superman/Spiderman/Batman, but wearing a business suit.
I tried to get it to run Peter Norvig's JScheme [1]. Apparently I also need a class library like GNU classpath?
DISCLAIMER: not a Java expert or even practitoner.
[1] http://norvig.com/jscheme.html