Post 2107452 by hiroyuki@shigusegubu.club
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(DIR) Post #2086279 by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:05:12Z
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Protip:When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashesI'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
(DIR) Post #2107452 by hiroyuki@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-19T16:58:48.324072Z
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@natecull cc: The Tusky developers
(DIR) Post #AP3k2XUNoMPBDYsw08 by jk@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:25:36Z
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@natecull john roderick often talks about his ~85 year old mother on his podcasts, and describes how she (as a programmer in the 1950s-1960s) is appalled at pretty much all bugs in computer programs and the blasé attitude developers have, saying something like "back when I worked on those machines we made sure the code was correct before we sent it to anybody, we spent months and years making sure everything was completely correct before any of it was sold"
(DIR) Post #AP3k370VkttvNLBaRE by michal@toot.kottman.xyz
2022-10-15T12:55:14Z
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@jk @natecull "months and years", a luxury today's developers do not have
(DIR) Post #AP430jCPCWBo5NKHMu by slash@cdrom.tokyo
2022-10-29T15:57:50.498678Z
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@natecull heard that in Kitboga voice and it made it even better.
(DIR) Post #AP47pBOb2Yh5pdLIMy by PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com
2022-10-29T16:51:48.910040Z
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@natecull meanwhile Japanese gamedevs with mostly 16 colors (aside from a few later 256 color games) and in many cases even a NEC v30 (faster 8086):https://twitter.censors.us/pc98_bot
(DIR) Post #AP4O6b9y6NJJvXpJPE by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:18:44Z
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meanwhile the Gemini Guidance Computer team laugh"you MIT people had 4K of RAM, we had 39 whole bits AND WE WERE GRATEFUL"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_Guidance_Computer
(DIR) Post #AP4O6ckWBy8orBw10y by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:26:00Z
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ah, actually they did have 4096... 36-bit words of writeable core RAM. Weird. Was the Gemini computer *bigger* than the Apollo one ????http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Gemini.htp
(DIR) Post #AP4O6eNY8KxNuXChUW by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:29:15Z
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The Apollo LVDC is the third computer on the ship that never gets any love cos it just ran the engines and wasn't sexyhttp://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/LVDC.html
(DIR) Post #AP4O6gZJzXYshcj87M by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:30:57Z
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<< and the MIT Instrumentation Labs' antibodies flooded in to destroy the invader with critiques and reports negative of the IBM report. >>lol programmers then just like today
(DIR) Post #AP4O6i9s58ONdGppj6 by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:34:34Z
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Ah! The LVDC had no ROM at all! Good lord. The entire program sat in RAM. Aaaaaaaaaaaa
(DIR) Post #AP4O6jlU6m4ccDRNzc by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:42:13Z
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<< A so-called "bugger word" has been stuck at the end of each bank—no comments on this terminology, please, since I didn't invent it; when I asked Don Eyles some question that involved them, he somewhat-laconically stated "we called them check sums">>http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/index.html
(DIR) Post #AP4O6lOs1pAlgesM1Q by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-29T00:00:12Z
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Huh, and if you have ROM and RAM I guess it literally is a Harvard Architecturehttp://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/BlockIII.htmlI never thought of that before!
(DIR) Post #AP89029ibz1Wwjxefw by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2022-10-31T15:23:48Z
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@natecull Not necessarily, or even typically. It is quite common to have both code and read-only data in ROM while using RAM for read/write data. RAM can also be used to hold code loaded from some type of storage that doesn't permit direct execution.
(DIR) Post #APCgYvRsZftgw4MHpI by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-11-02T19:54:13.649282Z
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@natecull also learn assembler
(DIR) Post #APCmyo2JM6KjCV7hOC by rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz
2022-11-02T20:08:13.976355Z
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@Moon @natecull
(DIR) Post #APCnFR3M3kloqIXaee by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2022-11-02T21:12:57.703648Z
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@Moon @natecull Build logic gates with 275-240 relays.
(DIR) Post #APCnQS5mXJXRFbvflI by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2022-11-02T21:14:47.107920Z
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@rru142 @natecull @Moon Sexy :booba:
(DIR) Post #APCnUPXvwadEVrz79k by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2022-11-02T21:15:30.408969Z
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@rru142 @natecull @Moon
(DIR) Post #APCnohA0AIyCvwSlVY by coldacid@noagendasocial.com
2022-11-02T21:20:02Z
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@mangeurdenuage @natecull @Moon you could implement the whole logic gate series with that many relays
(DIR) Post #APCogjzZqujlM0MFzk by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2022-11-02T21:27:17.622677Z
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@coldacid @natecull @Moon >with that many relays275-240 relays are a specific type of relay that was sold by radio shack, not the number of relay.>you could implement the whole logic gate You can make all the basic ones. Things gets more spicy when you start implementing adders, Like for example an 8 bit adder need 144 relays to work.
(DIR) Post #APComDekzO6YntEQkK by coldacid@noagendasocial.com
2022-11-02T21:30:47Z
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@mangeurdenuage @natecull @Moon oh wow I'm retarded I didn't even notice that the first number was bigger than the first, meaning it wasn't a range
(DIR) Post #APCoqQeQcJvKGS5LyC by coldacid@noagendasocial.com
2022-11-02T21:31:33Z
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@mangeurdenuage @natecull @Moon also I meant gates for all the logic ops
(DIR) Post #APCpwehBPfWFVvuHXE by teknomunk@pl.polaris-1.work
2022-11-02T21:43:35.285663Z
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@natecull > 39 bitsNow you can't stick a simple pointer in that.
(DIR) Post #APCqogc2V9ur65GTc8 by CoQ_10@poa.st
2022-11-02T21:53:39.429392Z
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@teknomunk @natecull 7.143 hertz clock.Fuck me.
(DIR) Post #APCr8BYHh4HMYXo372 by teknomunk@pl.polaris-1.work
2022-11-02T21:56:52.068232Z
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@CoQ_10 @natecull > digital, serial computer> A serial computer is a computer typified by bit-serial architecture – i.e., internally operating on one bit or digit for each clock cycle.With a 7.143Hz clock that sounds painful.> Fuck me.In a 13-bit long line.
(DIR) Post #AXHbfdJMoLzFeXPkW0 by dcc@annihilation.social
2023-07-02T11:54:14.281411Z
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@natecull >5y'so yea thats some real fediing right their
(DIR) Post #AnTkrnAdvYTNo7jb5k by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
2024-10-28T22:16:57.981727Z
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imagine making a post like this and then your fedi notifications still get butchered 6 years after from thousands of people boosting it around over the years
(DIR) Post #AnTlULiHwlTxwZrDLk by Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
2024-10-28T22:34:26.924841Z
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@lizzy I think if I were to make software, I might try running it in highly low-powered VMs so I know what it's like