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Thank you for making that. There are are articles that mention how we forgot the octal connection to the x86 isa. Your ascii art table is just a really clean way of visualizing it.

Neat approach. I like how you are trying to simplify the problem.

That was probably an amazing decade for the Bay Area. I wish I was there then to see it.

Truth

I think the Caltrain people ran their stuff on emacs too.

https://groups.google.com/g/iphonewebdev/c/s3h8PRyfmDI

Ah, sry. I can no longer edit the title.

This is a great list. What is the truth about wine?

What does that mov do?

Not a single person got the watchmen reference

Interestingly, many old workstations that did 3d (primarily SGI), had what was called an overlay plane. This was essentially a separate frame buffer using indexed color into a palette. One of the colors would indicate transparency. The overlay was traditionally used for all UI or debug output on top of a 3d scene. For example, the Alias/Wavefront 3d modeler required this feature in order to run. It allowed the slower 3d hardware of that era to focus on a complex scene vs the scene AND the UI.

Do most people have to go through all of this ceremony or is there typically a JTAG port on a motherboard that will do the trick?

Thanks for writing this up Ken.

Strangely enough, I was researching a related topic a few days ago. I was wondering if disassemblers did the right thing with these opcodes. I was wondering in particular if they could reproduce the exact binary after disassembly.

It turns out that most assemblers do not have a specific way to make a distinction. The gnu assembler (gas) does have a ‘.s’ suffix for mnemonics to differentiate.

At a job I had, they gave people a book titled: Your Mac Is Not A Typewriter

One of the big things was the single space rule.

Interesting thing tho. Many years later I read on Steve Losh’s blog that he uses two spaces after every period. Why? So he can just do a simple search to move through sentences.

Same story for me up to the IBM selectrics.

Same thing with PayPal

Haha - thanks :-) I thought it was an abbreviation for some special tome on Operating Systems design.

Hi msbarnett: sorry unrelated to this thread. In an older thread you mention an acronym TFA. The thread was a discussion on sparse files and removing bytes from the front of a file. What is TFA?

This is an excellent article. It is comprehensive and has simple explanations.

Hi : unrelated to this thread.

In an older thread you mention an acronym TFA. The thread was a discussion on sparse files and removing bytes from the front of a file.

What is TFA?

This is interesting, thanks for sharing this. I will look at the JOE editor to see how this is implemented.

I have thought about this problem off and on. Usually the conclusion I come to is that we need a new tty interface. The old tty interface has too much legacy baggage. For example l, in addition to the buffering problem, there is also the key input problem. Ideally, a newer interface would provide scan codes instead of the escape sequences. Not having to deal with ‘escape’ like we do today would simplify things.

Why is he making a packer?

I miss this guy

I know that this phrase was used way back in the early 90s. I suspect it was used before then as well.

Whoa - nice. I just ordered one in March. I was OK with having to try manjaro, but i wanted to try void. Thanks for sharing this.

Totally. I really like that he has kept it all these years.

This is a really good story. It is important to remember that this is the spirit that built Silicon Valley.

Which parts are the coroutines?