Posts by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #ASzWv2jOt1q4sTuVkG by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-02-21T01:33:26Z
       
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       @danak6jq Crays were ECL, right? I remember in the early 1980s one of my EE profs talked about some news that a semiconductor manufacturer (not sure, maybe NatSemi) was going all in on CMOS. This was a big deal. What drove the switch? Power consumption and heat dissipation I guess?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASzXNprxmmIvNwe3Pc by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-02-22T05:38:48Z
       
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       @danak6jq @bsmaalders @danmcd Even before all the micros were the VAX killer “minisupercomputers” from Pyramid, Convex, Sequent, Encore, and others.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATWqBXDYILaTdPWe5w by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-03-11T19:20:41Z
       
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       @kenshirriff @b0rk Excellent; this is the first rationale I’ve seen for byte order that didn’t resort to logical hand waving (such as, “It’s more consistent if low order bits are at lower addresses.”) Are you aware of a similar rationale for big-endian order? The only thing I’m aware of is the consistency with human L-to-R reading order as described in IEN 137, but not a hardware-based rationale.
       
 (DIR) Post #AU0qPm7VHSKPspmFdY by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-03-26T01:07:04Z
       
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       My 14yo daughter informed me today that I am not allowed to use the word "sus".
       
 (DIR) Post #AUccJgHLwpsNuSBxaq by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-04-13T02:21:23Z
       
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       @ptribble @alanc Huh. I'd suggest that you file a bug, except that Solaris/SPARC support was removed from JDK 15. Maybe the JDK 8 and 11 maintainers might be interested though....
       
 (DIR) Post #AUccJhZT8xxfuvfwTA by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-04-13T20:04:32Z
       
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       @ptribble @alanc Huh I didn't know anybody was interested in SPARC anymore. What machines are you targeting, current ones or old ("legacy") equipment? JDK 17 shouldn't be too bad since the Sol/SPARC support was removed not too long before that. But JDK 21 might be more difficult because of virtual threads. I hear there are difficulties with some ports because of sensitivity to native stack layout and such.
       
 (DIR) Post #AV7onz0vjpRK5kCjvU by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-04-28T22:39:29Z
       
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       @igb @adrianco @alanc @danak6jq @SolarisDiaspora @aka_pugs 👆I had missed this article from 2019.Sometime after the slogan came out, DEC (I think) printed up T-shirts:“The network is the networkThe computer is the computerWe apologize for any confusion.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AW4Qmw0Yr8BwigMvi4 by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-05-27T05:28:53Z
       
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       @xkcd The sixth Platonic solid is a teapotahedron! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot#/media/File:The_Six_Platonic_Solids.pnghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot#Appearances
       
 (DIR) Post #AawWDzSvfMkFst6TcO by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-10-19T23:12:35Z
       
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       @tante @leevinsel Cool, I had missed this! I must give it a read, thanks. (And I wish Lee would be on here more.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AcLhb8ELnipXszbyE4 by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2023-12-01T00:26:59Z
       
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       @mattblaze I actually thought you were doing it on purpose, in order to freshen up your blocklist. Eventually the number of blocks might plateau. Do you see evidence of this? Or is there an inexhaustible set of scolds out there?
       
 (DIR) Post #AdWIbWEiWf37DTdy7c by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2024-01-05T01:13:54Z
       
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       @mikemathia https://mastodon.social/@GreatDismal What do the Tupperware pieces metamorphose into next? And perhaps more importantly, who are the predators of Tupperware?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or_All_the_Seas_with_Oystershttps://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1958-05/page/n49/mode/2up?view=theater
       
 (DIR) Post #ApW9YnBV7rXDUaSWXY by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2024-12-28T21:55:43Z
       
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       @internetarchive @briankrebs 👍 Donated!
       
 (DIR) Post #AsiZCUytQCyneXwHse by stuartmarks@mastodon.social
       2025-04-03T15:17:23Z
       
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       @foone @baroquebobcat Yes. There was a branch with 96-column punch cards, but it was an evolutionary dead end. The 80-column punch cards are indeed eternal.