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Re:Infinite Mac: BeOS
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:50PM (#50321024)
> RISC OS is that clean legacy free desktop
Uh, legacy free? I'd argue the opposite - it's got tons of legacy baggage - cooperative multitasking, and a lot is written in old ARM assembly language. It's disk limitations, filetypes.
> And it's still alive and still updated and works well on modern hardware.
I am quite impressed that the bounties that are put out to improve it get funded. (to be clear, this is not sarcasm , there's tens of thousands of pounds £s donated). I've tried in on my Pi, and it's super snappy, if a little odd.
Re:Archiving the Oldest Webcam Feed
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:28PM (#49958077)
My first thought was FOGBANK[0] - a material that was used in some US nuclear weapons that was lost to time, and reverse engineered.
Re:Mac OS 9 Platinum desktop recreated in the browser
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:47PM (#49956667)
Platinum and the BeOS/Haiku GUI are still my favourites. Imagine being able to distinguish a control from a label. Or not using abstract monochrome icons. Not in 2026 unfortunately.
Now get off my lawn.
Re:Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:35PM (#49748240)
I can't remember if it had General MIDI, but I'll give a nod to the Gravis Ultrasound. I couldn't afford / justify a full one, so I got the ACE version. Of course the use of midi for games was almost gone by then.
Re:A 386 PC for Your RP2350
on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:44PM (#49703703)
> 16-bit x86 code dependent on interacting with real hardware under precise timing doesn't always work well in a VM.
This reminds me of the 8088mph demo - 1k colours in CGA, and a bunch of other impressive stuff.
8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators (oldskool.org)
319 points by drv on April 8, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 99 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338944
https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-al...
Re:Apple Releases iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass U...
on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:16PM (#49703300)
Other discussion:
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 (apple.com)
226 points by throw0101d 2 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 220 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701004
Links to:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-app...
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:44AM (#49682898)
https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/
Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (fishshell.com)
906 points by jdxcode on Dec 28, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 198 comments
Re:Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:33PM (#49503886)
Tunetracker[0] radio automation software (not sure what else it did/does) started on BeOS, then moved to Haiku. After 25 years(!)[1] it's on Mac now.
[0] https://www.tunetrackersystems.com/
[1] https://rbr.com/tunetracker-ditches-beos-haiku-for-mac-backb...
Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z a...
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:09PM (#49471951)
Re:IBM's next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads
on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:24PM (#49426033)
"a base frequency above 5.7 GHz" and 36MB L2 caches.
Also, I'm curious if there are any other dual/multi-ISA architecture chips that are really different and not just 64 bit extensions or things like THUMB.
I found a 1994 patent[0] from Samsung for a Dual-instruction-set architecture CPU with hidden software emulation mode.
IBM developed the PowerPC 615[1] that had either had an x86 core onboard, or it could translate x86 instruction into PowerPC ones. But it wasn't released.
Re:Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @03:42PM (#49411837)
> no native graphics, which is why today the X11 graphics system is being removed and replaced with a new one, Wayland.
I'm not disagreeing with your general points, just being pedantic about the "time bits".
Wayland has been the default for even enterprise distros since 2019, and Wayland was created in 2008, so not new, but newer than X11.
Re:The Prague of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:16PM (#49395307)
I think it looks like City 17 from Half Life 2 - which I believe was supposed to be a vaguely European City.
I think I prefer the ambience of Deus Ex: Human Revolution better.
I'd love(? fear) to see a remake of the original Deus Ex in
Re:The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:29PM (#49236839)
I believe the original Toy Story was 'created' on SGIs, but the render farm was SPARC.
Re:The world wants more Canadian-made water bombers. Can they be built...
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:33PM (#49226545)
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
First European deliveries in 2028. It's sad that the line was shutdown for years, forcing them to rebuild a supply chain. That sounds like a nightmare. Even as wildfires got worse and were and are expected to get more worse. So it goes.
Re:Servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controll
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:14AM (#49194361)
*controllers
Too bad Oxide's non-BMC[0] service processor or something similar isn't available on all servers.
[0] https://oxide.computer/faq-friday/is-the-oxide-service-proce...
Re:Twenty Years of RISC OS Open
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @08:45PM (#49149959)
> At that stage it shipped with Arthur because, or so we were told, the "actual" OS was still in development.
I think this was ARX[0], which was overambitious. Arthur apparently stands for A Risc by THURsday[1]
EDIT: a detailed article[2], linked from lproven's article[3], about the history of ARX / Arthur / RiscOS.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARX_(operating_system)
[1] https://www.theregister.com/software/2022/06/23/how-risc-os-...
[2] https://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/2012/PaulFellows/
Re:The Prospects for 128 Bit Processors ( John Mashey SGI 1995)
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:19PM (#49149007)
IBM's System/38 / AS/400 / iSeries / i5 / i has had 128bit pointers for its Technology Independent Machine Interface. The System/38 was released in 1980.
Re:Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:01PM (#49076679)
> play Tux Racer on my very own Z17
Interesting. It looks like Debian has a Tux Racer package for Extreme Tux Racer on s390x. I guess it'd be remote graphics, and not accelerated.
Re:Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:53PM (#49076595)
Interesting. If it's accurate, Apple sure has a nice markup.
Side note: I wished they'd chosen more distinctive colours for the charts.
Re:Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:59PM (#48926935)
There's a good series of articles on WebForce by the person at SGI who had the idea.
Starts here:
https://therealmccrea.com/2014/01/09/january-1994-a-very-goo...
Re:Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending repos to the cloud
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:26PM (#48911076)
"Musk promises". Sure.
"SpaceX policy regarding data retention.
It is actually helpful for debugging issues if we can retain some amount of data, so allowing this would be appreciated, but your privacy settings are always respected."[0]
Re:The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:53PM (#48898688)
> one of the few games that supported the non-standard sound card on my parents IBM PS/1. Actually think it might have been bundled with that PS/1
It was.
https://pixelatedarcade.com/tech_attributes/overview/ibm-ps-...
Re:The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:46PM (#48897007)
> Silpheed by Sierra On-Line for the PC — ported from the Japanese PC-8801 — was similarly good, possibly the first game I played with a proper sound card.
I had a similar experience, as it came bundled[0] with the soundcard for my IBM PS/1 286, and it even had speech(!) during the introduction.
[0] https://pixelatedarcade.com/tech_attributes/overview/ibm-ps-...
Re:UK has 'no future' if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse
on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:06PM (#48886643)
Link to the 14 page report[0].
The fact that they refused to release the un-redacted report is troubling for many reasons. The most probable on reason they didn't was because the predictions were too dire.
Australia had a similar situation a few years ago[1], and refused to even say when the report was completed.
[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d8...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/30/offic...
Re:Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @08:37PM (#48799449)
After Compaq bought Tandem, they said they were going to port NonStop from MIPS to the Alpha[0], but then cancelled that for Itanium[1]. I'm not sure if NonStop was ported/expanded from 32bit to 64bit when it was running on MIPS.
[0] https://www.scmp.com/article/256948/compaq-port-himalaya-alp...
[1] https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/compaq-to-aban...
Re:Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @08:31PM (#48799422)
As a lucky kid, I remember watching in awe, a postage stamp size video from a CD-ROM encyclopedia on my 486SX. Around the same time I got to see some Sun SPARCstations with an insane 32MB of RAM!
Re:Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:32PM (#48798562)
As a side-note, it's interesting that all of the released versions of NT on Alpha were 32 bit.
Raymond Chen has a blog post[0] about using Alpha to develop 64bit Windows before Itanium hardware was available.
Virtually Fun has some more excellent background on finding a compiler for 64bit Windows[1], finding a copy of Windows 2000 64bit for Alpha AXP[2], and a detailed article about making an ISO from the found copy.
[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-...
[1] https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/05/05/hiding-in-plain-sight-th...
[2] https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/05/15/windows-2000-64-bit-for-...
[3] https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/06/26/axp64-2210-installation-...
Re:Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @01:43AM (#48791526)
It was supposed to make porting PC games easier - Windows CE had DirectX, I'm not sure if it was a subset.
Re:Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com
on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:13PM (#48740911)
I ~~can't~~ won't use the new ( decade+ old? )reddit.
From the Reddit Post announcing this, :
"In case you are wondering . . .
Q: Is Reddit shutting down Old Reddit? A: Not right now! We can’t promise it will be around forever, but u/spez himself has said we’ll keep supporting it while folks are still using it. That said, it doesn’t have the same modern security tech stack reddit.com has so we need to tighten security on old reddit to keep it viable."[0]
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...