Pair of Twiggys

ben bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Wed Mar 15 18:27:17 CDT 2017


On 3/15/2017 5:02 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> On 2017-03-15 5:17 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The whole idea of an "operating system"  seems to have morphed into the
>>>> notion of a user interface.
>>>>
>>>> To my way of thinking,t he various flavors of Linux are really a user
>>>> interface build on a single operating system.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Has anybody else noticed that the meaning of "portable code" seems to have
>>> morphed into "can be built on two or three different flavours of Linux"?
>>
>>
>> 1983. All the world's a VAX.
>
> Running BSD
>
>> 1993. No sorry, all the world's a SPARC.
>
> Running Solaris
>
>> 2013. Oops, no, all the world's an x86.
>
> Running Linux
>
> I'm waiting for the rise of cell phones to make it
>
> 202x All the world's an ARM running Android
>
> Warner

  Raspberry Pi seems to be the TREND with embedded things.

  I bring you THE PDP 8/I KIT. 1 PI with Front Panel.
  http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence

And for you OLD PEOPLE you GET MEL's Computer.

http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence
No Vacuum tubes have been harmed in this FPGA replica of the
LPG-30 - Desk Optional.


well 6502 people, this is your DAY.
MOnSter Cpu ... discreet transistors.
http://monster6502.com/

Ben.


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