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If you would ever part with a 7011 I'd happily pay for it plus shipping.

Are you still actively working on the port?

The book you are looking for is https://www.amazon.com/RISC-System-6000-PowerPC-Architecture...

It explains the architecture of the 7011/250 in detail. When I was much younger I was working with a group to get Linux on there. We got to the point of making a boot floppy that would display a 3 digit number on the front panel.

That's not accurate - when a telephone company registers a block of numbers (at least in the US), you specify if it's landline, pager, VoIP, cellular, etc.

US West (telephone company) used them around that time. I know they were in Omaha, NE but unsure of where else in their market it was available.

I've used devices like https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-110VDSLEXT-Ethernet-Exte... in similar cases. You will likely need to modify your phone lines to get a pair from the living room to the work room, though.

It's not hard, it's complex. I spent a few years going through 834 and later at a different company, 811. For the first I embedded a javascript interpreter to do translations. For the second I put most of the logic in the code.

That's referred to as rubber hose cryptography.

My eyesight is getting worse but is that person typing nude?

There is still a lot of it in service. Sometimes you'll see a tank of nitrogen chained to a pole. It is there to put pressure through the cable to keep water out of a cut/nick on the lead sheath. The lines are pressurized normally from the central office and if the monitoring shows a drop in pressure (a cut in the sheath), they roll out cable maintenance.

It was available in CenturyLink/Qwest areas. Not sure about now, a lot of the loop products have been grandfathered recently.

https://www.centurylink.com/wholesale/pcat/fcp.html

I was one of two providers in their 13 state region that used it. It was really successful and let us put in ADSL and then Ethernet over Copper in business parks.

Perhaps Ubiquiti could use those savings to operate a support department.

You aren't allowed to have a CNAME on the naked domain - it has to be an A record. It's not a shortcoming of the host. You'll have to make an A record that points to the same IP as www.

Before automated switching it actually was an office and housed staff and the telephone operators. After a hundred years the name stuck.

I have a book that covers this in great detail - The Deal of the Century. You're correct that long distance subsidized local service.

Assuming I'm running malware.com, I would make 192-168-0-1.router.malware.com resolve to 192.168.0.1 so the origin matches and I can prod the router as much as I'd like without crossing the origin.

Shhh - don't tell everyone about Iowa.

AOLserver was a joy. I was able to speak about it at the O'Reilly OSCON in 2000 or so.

This will also put your co-founder in 100% control of whether or not an exit will happen. You won't be able to sell the business if a critical patent doesn't come along with it.

You don't even need to forge the paperwork if you work at a telco. Create the number port request in NPAC, wait for the confirmation timeout, and activate the number port. The timeout depends on the two carriers but it's generally a day or two.

It's workable if you take your MTU down to 256 or 128.

"the underserved San Francisco markets of Bayview and Portola"

Next time you fly over the midwest, look at density. If you can see your neighbor, you're probably not underserved.

Tech unemployment is essentially negative in Iowa.