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AFAIK, it was the last of the line that had sculpted keytops, it feels good to type on. It's a damned shame that the newer ones have those chicklet keys.
i7 with 16GB RAM, HDD replaced with SSD. Runs Fedora like a top.
I first heard of Zuse when I spent a week in class in the Zuse conference room at DEC Spit Brook Road, Nashua aka ZKO1. (there were many rooms in that facility named after computing pioneers...)
There were pictures of Zuse and the Z3 in that room, but also an original Konrad Zuse oil painting. I wonder what happened to that painting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_PRISM
Killing Prism sent David Cutler into the arms of Microsoft.
Another dead architecture was Jupiter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_project
Killing Jupiter sent many of DEC's DECsystem-10 customers to IBM.
Years later, they both seem like bad decisions.
Your AS might be blocked by firewall rules. The Wayback Machine can show you the page.
I thought it was pretty cool, but a bit expensive for what it was.
So I made my own with a PIC chip: https://www.n1kdo.com/meter-clock/index.html
Mine is more of a novelty than a accurate clock. It is a interesting desktop geegaw to invite discussion.
https://www.xanthos.se/~joachim/OpenVMS.html
VMS DECwindows Motif 1.0 was released in August 1991; it is difficult for me to comprehend that was 35(!) years ago. I still have a mouse pad from the release party.
To say NIST was off is clickbait hyperbole.
This page: https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi shows that NIST has > 16 NTP servers on IPv4, of those, 5 are in Boulder and were affected by the power failure. The rest were fine.
However, most entities should not be using these top-level servers anyway, so this should have been a problem for exactly nobody.
IMHO, most applications should use pool.ntp.org
We watched them walk on the Moon on live TV.
After seeing them perform that impossible feat, it seemed like we could use technology to do anything.
As far as the Digital and/or Internet revolutions, the changes have been so fast and widespread that people have not come to terms with them, at least I haven't, and I've been pretty deep into both.
My particular concerns are around atrophy of basic skills (reading, research, writing, etc.,) the authenticity/trustworthiness of "knowledge" obtained from various Internet sources (misinformation, fake news, deep fakes,) and lack of personal contact and interaction in a world where peoples' only connection to others is through a screen (fakebook, instagram, tiktok, etc..)
AI is not going to make any of those any better.
I would not describe my feelings as "dismay" or "fear" but rather of "extreme caution" -- if that makes any sense.
With that said, I'm going to step away from this computer and go play with my dog.
I would not let the lack of assignments, tests, and quizzes stop you from trying these if you are interested. At a minimum, they would give you a feeling for what the program/s are like, and possibly encourage you to enroll into the online degree program, which is an exceptional value.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE/RPC
DCE/RPC worked in 1993, and still does today.
Protocol buffers is just another IDL.
"Meta in talks to spend billions on Google's chips, The Information reports"
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-talks-spend-billions-g...
I was exposed to this book in about 1975 when I was in detention in the math teacher's room. It set me on a path to programming.
https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/net/dev/system/pmax_ul3/srvd.74/us...
Maybe it's hard to find these days. However it had the best VT220 emulation I have seen running on X Window System.
I will note that I have not seen a terminal emulator that supports the "double wide" and "double high, double wide" character modes of the VT100. Those giant letters were kinda fun. (<esc>#3, <esc>#4, and <esc>#6 if my memory serves me right.)
see https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-E...
The TL;DR is that there are malicious browser plugins that make the browser into a web scraping bot.
I see this all the time in web server logs; it is recognizable as a GET on a deep link coming from some random IP, usually residential.
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505421
The article does not mention what OS is being used, but RT-11 was designed for "real-time" applications. That was released in 1973, so over 50 years ago.
If you get into deep shit, some amateur FM handy-talkies are IMHO more likely to be able to get you help. Or perhaps T-Mobile's T-Satellite service if you are headed somewhere really remote.
Unpopular opinion: Meshtastic is a solution in search of a problem.
Your X server (e.g. a X terminal) could display applications running on a variety of other vendors' hardware and operating systems. The specification enabled this interoperability. Apps running on SunOS could display on VAX workstations, and vice versa (as long as you had TCP/IP installed!)
The advantage X terminals had was that they were relatively inexpensive to buy and operate. Most did not require management, however the CPU cost moved into a computer room and you needed a pretty fast network to get reasonable performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Nuclear_Aircraft_Labor...
my understanding is that the area is still a bit "hot" with radiation.
See https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/2012/12/14/vax-notes/
and the referenced paper
https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.25-meter_band#U.S._reallocat...
I have a better idea. Take the old UHF TV channels 70-83 that were re-allocated to AMPS cellular and re-allocate them again.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/6uoeB82vA9vKzjvbA
I have had this for a very long time.
If you become more interested in Claude Shannon, I recommend the biography "A Mind At Play"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_at_Play
A very interesting person.
I think the author means "provenance".