Subj : Slackware 15.0
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Sun Oct 04 2020 21:32:52

Hello Maurice!

03 Oct 2020 00:41, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> we today are limited to 7 bit with multiple problems to solve
 MK> Speak for yourself.

if 8 bit was supported we would not need uuencode or even base64

 MK>  This was never an issue that I was ever aware of. 

maybe i am just older amiga user ?

 MK>  What was an issue way back when, is silly fidonet sysops who got 
 MK> suckered into thinking that CP437 is higher/upper ascii.

it could be classified as fake news, if we ask Donald Trump :)

 MK>  There never 
 MK> was any 8 bit characters in ascii and I doubt there ever will be.

100% agree

unicode is just shit like all the other encoding standards, if we would have progressed well it would have being using html in more places, do you know svg image format ?, totaly 7 bit file for binarie content, and nearly all browsers in 2020 support it

 BP>> oh never mind got a new kernel....
 MK> kv-5.8.13 has serious usb issues.

fair, but i have no usage for usb on linode.com :)

 MK> As of today my "stable" boot is 
 MK> using kv-5.4.69.

okay

 MK>  No penguins with intel graphics but everything else 
 MK> seems to be working including i915drmfb.

maybe just tweek on kernel boot options could solve it if kernel default options is not good ?


 Regards Benny

.... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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 * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)

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