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larsbrinkhoff

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larsbrinkhoff
·5 days ago·discuss
This says PDP-7. https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/56tkt8/what_prog...
larsbrinkhoff
·24 days ago·discuss
Then maybe also give a nod to the LINC, showing DEC a small 12-bit computer could be made.
larsbrinkhoff
·24 days ago·discuss
BASIC was developed on GE mainframes.
larsbrinkhoff
·26 days ago·discuss
Chaosnet was inspired by the experimental 3 Mbits/s Ethernet in use at Xerox PARC at the time. Experimental Ethernet has a 8-bit node address; Chaosnet has 16 bits, of which 8 is network and another 8 is the node. The Chaosnet data rate is 4 Mbits/s.

On top of the hardware protocol, Chaosnet also defined the higher-level transport and session layer protocol. Applications are addressed by a name string rather than a port number; e.g. "TELNET" instead of 23. This protocol was retained when the NIC hardware was replaced with stock Ethernet.
larsbrinkhoff
·26 days ago·discuss
Chaosnet in active use, mostly on emulators: https://chaosnet.net/

Lispm, PDP-10, PDP-11, VAX.
larsbrinkhoff
·26 days ago·discuss
Yes, and in Ethernet frames as EtherType 0x0804.
larsbrinkhoff
·2 months ago·discuss
"Her barbell is a special women's barbell."

FYI, it was probably just a regular women's weightlifting barbell. They are somewhat lighter, and have a thinner grip. Maybe she's serious about her weightlifting training.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_weightlifting#Barbell
larsbrinkhoff
·2 months ago·discuss
By the way, I also coded a QR symbol generator in PDP-10 assembly language.

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/lars/qrcode.8
larsbrinkhoff
·2 months ago·discuss
I hand drew this on a whiteboard. It was a lot more work than I anticipated.

http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/qr.png
larsbrinkhoff
·3 months ago·discuss
The LINC minicomputer operating system LAP6 came with a 4x5 font, but it didn't have lower case.
larsbrinkhoff
·4 months ago·discuss
It's built into the Unix terminal driver. Control-U is the default, but it can be changed with e.g. "stty kill". Libraries like readline also support it.
larsbrinkhoff
·4 months ago·discuss
Just type Control-U once.
larsbrinkhoff
·4 months ago·discuss
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/2028903268265672728
larsbrinkhoff
·4 months ago·discuss
Jonathan Blow: "It’s about a compiler written in Python FFS."
larsbrinkhoff
·5 months ago·discuss
https://www.sbcl.org/history.html

https://cmucl.org/doc/cmucl-history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Lisp
larsbrinkhoff
·5 months ago·discuss
SBCL has been in the works since 1980.
larsbrinkhoff
·5 months ago·discuss
Source: "The Invention of Forth", by Chuck Moore. https://colorforth.github.io/HOPL.html
larsbrinkhoff
·5 months ago·discuss
Emacs is needed because it provides Emacs Lisp.
larsbrinkhoff
·5 months ago·discuss
Forth was invented before Moore worked at NRAO. Granted, it was gradually expanded from a very small interpreter, so it's hard to say exactly when it became "Forth" as we mean it today.
larsbrinkhoff
·5 months ago·discuss
Sorry, I don't know anything about Emacs graphics. Some people confuse me with larsi, but I'm not that guy.