11 Jun
2019
11 Jun
'19
7:05 a.m.
Found on Hackernews but by our very own Seth Morabito...
?
This is what makes a PDP-11/35 or PDP-11/40 tick. It turns out to be
441 ICs. Impressive!
?
https://loomcom.com/blog/0044_what_makes_a_pdp_11_35_tick.html
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11 Jun
11 Jun
7:33 a.m.
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Subject: What Makes a PDP-11/35 or 40 Tick?
Found on Hackernews but by our very own Seth Morabito...
?
This is what makes a PDP-11/35 or PDP-11/40 tick. It turns out to be
441 ICs. Impressive!
?
https://loomcom.com/blog/0044_what_makes_a_pdp_11_35_tick.html
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I wonder what the unlisted 20 ICs are for, and what they are?
List totals 221; claim is 441 ...
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paul
12:15 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 4:33 AM, Paul Birkel via cctalk wrote:
Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that ancient post of mine...
-Seth
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Found on Hackernews but by our very own Seth Morabito...
"This is what makes a PDP-11/35 or PDP-11/40 tick. It turns out to be
441 ICs. Impressive!"
I wonder what the unlisted 20 ICs are for, and what they are?
List totals [421]; claim is 441 ...
12:22 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that ancient post of mine...
Ancient? It was on HN yesterday!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20137134
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1:11 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
It's not my fault they found a blog post I made in 2012 yesterday! :^)
-Seth
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Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that ancient post of mine...
Ancient? It was on HN yesterday!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20137134 
1:14 p.m.
On Jun 11, 2019, at 10:11 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
It's not my fault they found a blog post I made in 2012 yesterday! :^)
Almost as bad as desperately looking for a fix for something, and coming across your own
posting from 15 years ago with the solution :)
Ian
7:41 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Ian McLaughlin via cctalk wrote:
Almost as bad as desperately looking for a fix for
something, and coming
across your own posting from 15 years ago with the solution :)
IFF your old post had a solution! (rather than being an unresolved
query)
A related anecdote (that must surely happen often to ARD, Chuck, Allison,
and a few others), . . .
A friend of mine did hobbyist holography, with a ton of sand in a waterbed
frame on stacks of tires, . . .
There used to be only one REAL professional photography supplier in the
area, where you could get sheet film, glass plates, etc.
One time, she noticed an Eastman glass plate emulsion that she hadn't seen
before, so she asked the staff about it.
"Well, I personally don't know anything about it, but I hear that we have
a customer who knows EVERYTHING about that stuff, and we'll get them in
touch with you!"
When she got home, there was a message on her answering machine, "Hi, this
is George at Alpha Photo. We have a customer who wants to know about a
new Eastman glass plate emulsion. Would you mind telling them what you
know?"
Guess what? YOU are the expert that they will put you in touch with.
12 Jun
12 Jun
5:27 a.m.
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 01:42, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
IFF your old post had a solution! (rather than being an unresolved
query)
https://xkcd.com/979/
There are a couple of things now where I know that if I try to find
sources, I'll find myself.
The details of how id Software's game /Quake/ killed Cyrix, the CPU
company, because Quake used a very clever method of interleaving FP
ops with integer ops that didn't use the same registers, allowing the
Pentium core to essentially run them at once. The Cyrix 6x86 core was
quicker -- I bought one myself, what more can I say -- but it couldn't
interleave FP and int ops like that, so it ran Quake like a dog.
And as Quake was *the* most demanding game around in 1996 or so, and
had a super convenient built-in "timedemo" feature, all the magazine's
benchmarks used Quake. So 6x86s got hammered, even though on literally
*ALL* OTHER X86-32 CODE THEY WERE QUICKER, they got bad reviews, and
Cyrix ended up getting acquired by Via.
Or the problems with AMD fglrx on a Toshiba Satellite Pro P300A.
That'll be me, too.
The weirdest one, though, was when I was given the honour (?) of
moderating my first item at the World SF Convention. It was a
collection of silly games. I'd never heard of one of them. I Googled
it. I got my own blog as the ? 2 or ? 3 hit.
_That_ was odd.
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11 Jun
11 Jun
4:47 p.m.
On 6/11/2019 11:11 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven via
cctalk wrote:
USE LESS BANNER ADS.
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
It's not my fault they found a blog post I made in 2012 yesterday! :^)
Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that ancient post of mine...
Ancient? It was on HN yesterday!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20137134 -Seth
What I have seen a lot lately, is that you
get a search hit, click on
the link
and get a "We will display NOT this page for you because **** ". Is that
the same for you people out there?
Ben.
4:55 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:48 PM ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 6/11/2019 11:11 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk
wrote:
USE LESS BANNER ADS.
There are no banner ads on ycombinator, nor on Seth's site. I suspect you
have malware somewhere in your system or on your network.
- Josh
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven via
cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that
ancient
post of mine...
Ancient? It was on HN yesterday!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20137134
It's not my fault they found a blog post I made in 2012 yesterday! :^) -Seth
What I have seen a lot lately, is
that you get a search hit, click on
the link
and get a "We will display NOT this page for you because **** ". Is that
the same for you people out there?
Ben.
5:13 p.m.
On 6/11/2019 2:55 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
There are no banner ads on ycombinator, nor on Seth's site.? I suspect
you have malware somewhere in your system or on your network.
As froghorn leghorn once said. "That was a Joke son" ...
- Josh
I'll look at that site later, as finding any kind of intersting page
is becoming harder and harder as web searching is getting very sloppy.
Ben.
5:18 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:13 PM ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 6/11/2019 2:55 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
If you say so.
- Josh
There are no banner ads on ycombinator, nor on Seth's site. I suspect
you have malware somewhere in your system or on your network.
As froghorn leghorn once said. "That was a Joke son" ...
12 Jun
12 Jun
5:21 a.m.
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 23:23, ben via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
As froghorn leghorn once said. "That was a Joke son" ...
Foghorn. Because of his loud voice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn
A foghorn is a big loud, well, horn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn
And a Leghorn is a kind of chicken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leghorn_chicken
Leghorn chickens are from Livorno in Italy which is apparently
anglicised as "Leghorn", at which point I run out of explanations.
Gotta say, though, Ben, it didn't _look_ like a joke...
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