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Aptivi

Old Operating Systems to be tested soon

We no longer have a real old computer due to a catastrophic failure. However, applications like 86Box exist as emulators for very old PCs that existed in the past. Along with those retro computers sport very old operating systems that were compatible at the time.

Using this application, we can continue our journey of testing very old operating systems, from Windows 3.1 and 95 to Red Hat Commercial Linux 4.0 “Colgate” and the renowned Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X. Exploring the world of ancient times using modern technology to make retrocomputing more fun, we’ll create a new category solely for retrocomputing.

Mac Classic operating systems are also included in the list, though it’s not currently in our priority list right now. Different versions will be documented from installation to applications, but it will be a little long read to ensure that you get the most crucial information.

Not only the Classic Macs with their power, the old Windows versions with their awesomeness, and the Linux distros with their memorable FVWM desktop environment, but we’ll also add obscure stuff (that we can test) to ramp up the excitement!

We will start with our first retrocomputing article with a Linux distro. Guess the distro while we’re working on it by the 17th!

#Computer#news#Retrocomputing
argv minus one

In the 1980s, a whole lot of computer and CPU vendors introduced shiny new #RISC processors, like ARM, MIPS, POWER, and SPARC. Many of these were quite successful in the video game, workstation, and supercomputer markets.

Except Intel, whose old-fashioned x86 machines somehow ended up outperforming almost all of the RISCs.

How did that happen?

#retrocomputing
64'er Magazin

Spion (VC 20 + 16 KByte) | 64'er Magazin
64er-magazin.de/SH8503/spion.h
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
In diesem spannenden Spiel für den VC20 mit 16-KByte-Erweiterung haben Sie, der Spion im grünen Mantel, den geheimen Auftrag, gemäß Operationsplan Alpha den Tresor der kybernetischen Botschaft zu knacken und wichtige, sogar äußerst wichtige Unterlagen in Ihren Besitz zu bringen!

www.64er-magazin.deDer Spion, der aus dem VC 20 kam… | 64'er Magazin
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Kayla Eilhart (en)

As a member of czech Gaming History NGO I've just sourced some old electronics from my relatives - including this beauty. Old IBM ThinkPad with Windows 95 and Intel Pentium. It has both a CD drive and a floppy drive. Ports include PS/2, D-SUB, serial and parallel. Didn't try to power it yet - we will check it first a little.

#retrocomputing #thinkpad

Riley S. Faelan

Most of the time, technical books that have good-quality content are well and carefully edited, and technical books that are full of slop bear the nice heuristic of having been very carelessly edited.

This one is a weird exception. It contains good explanations of Turbo Vision's architecture, but the word use is often sloppy, and there's a number of blatant typoes in it. Moreover, the sample programs have clearly been written with the machine rather than a sophont reader in mind; they're technically functional, largely correct, but sometimes make unexplained weird moves that should be denounced as ill-considered hasty optimisations. archive.org/details/cleancodin

Perhaps the publisher, one M&T Books, let an autodidact write a book merely because he understood the subject matter, and then skimped out on hiring an editor to make the text as good as the content.

annas-archive.org/md5/325ac3c7

:blobcatreading: #bookstodon #retrocomputing

Internet ArchiveClean coding in Turbo Pascal 6 : using Turbo Vision and ObjectWindows : Dhillon, Amrik, 1963- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive300 p. : 24 cm
The Medley Interlisp Project

A 1988 demonstration of the Cognoter collaborative brainstorming tool in Interlisp.

youtube.com/watch?v=KzBj13OSVz

It was an application of project Colab at Xerox PARC to study how computers could support face-to-face-meetings. The researchers designed a conference room with specialized equipment such as a touch sensitive projection screen and collaboration software in Interlisp running on networked workstations.

About Colab:

markstefik.com/?page_id=155

YouTubeColab Cognoter Tool Demonstration Reels (1988)Von Medley (Interlisp and Common Lisp)
#retrocomputing#interlisp#meetings
argv minus one

TIL how the old #Cray #supercomputer worked. Apparently it would run the same sequence of instructions over many different data sets at the same time. It could do lots of math in a hurry, but only if it was lots of the *same* math.

It could also run ordinary one-thing-at-a-time software like Unix, but then it wasn't any faster than an ordinary one-thing-at-a-time CPU like the Motorola 68000.

This all sounds awfully familiar. Isn't that how GPUs work?

#retrocomputing
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

Given that I want to target i486 with @OS1337 but don't want to deal with obsolete hardware that is dying of old age, I think it's more fitting to consider a sort-of mainboard to shove some 486SX-SOM with PC/104-Plus on and have the few necessities hooked up to it. Maybe even put it inside a THINN #Pizzabox-style #case?

It would also make a new "bridge" machine to interface old PCI & ISA hardware and allow connecting i.e. a #QuadFlop and roll with that...

github.com/OS-1337/tiny486

Thoughts, @rasteri @polpo @TechTangents @lazygamereviews @foone ??

#Tiny486#embedded#EmbeddedComputing
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