Re: Soviet visual programming environments, I usually hear DRAKON brought up in that context (as far as what's usually cited in real world use for Buran etc.)
I wonder if "R-technology" is either another term for DRAKON or a distinctly different system. Given how underdocumented Soviet high technology (esp around computing and related fields) is in English sources, either can be considered a real possibility.
Was there any serious consideration for an ARM Macintosh derived from Mobius, or was that strictly meant as an Apple II replacement and then canned in favor of Newton?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8d77KV__gI Peristent Virtual Memory in the Great New Operating System In The Sky -- probably the only video on YouTube talking about KeyKOS besides Norm Hardy's ocap talk in 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDCXTpx0R8 OCAP 2017 Keynote Norm Hardy -- Much oral history about KeyKOS and successor systems by Norm Hardy (sadly now deceased), who was one of the main originators of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVm938gMWl0 RustConf 2017 -- Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy -- Joe Duffy's retrospective talk on the Midori project at RustConf 2017.
There's a lot of stuff out there, but I thought I would drop these three in particular because they don't have particularly high viewership compared to their historical value as anecdotes.
Telegram for desktop. Easily the most usable "modern" (read: not IRC) instant messaging client available today in terms of features, responsiveness, and portability.
Just a note for anyone who is looking to try this out: there are currently some fairly hard baked and thorny 32 bit dependencies in the Dis VM, so your system will need to be multilib to run it. There's currently a 64 bit porting effort going on in the form of Purgatorio, but that's still some time away from being complete (I recommend using it anyway because it's the most up to date version of the Inferno tree).
The conceptual foundation to do something like this already exists in the form of Drawbridge and Hyper-V, there just needs to be a political will within Microsoft to make it happen.
I wonder if "R-technology" is either another term for DRAKON or a distinctly different system. Given how underdocumented Soviet high technology (esp around computing and related fields) is in English sources, either can be considered a real possibility.