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If you peer into a microscope at a certain #VLSI microprocessor designed and fabricated recently by faculty and graduate students at the #UniversityOfCalifornia at #Berkeley, you will see something quite startling. There, inscribed in tiny detail next to the initials of the microprocessor designers, is a #Porsche racing car. (j m) #RISC #RiscII #Sun #Sparc #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1984

#til Polaroid Palette

ein Gerät, das aus Grafiken auf einem Rechner Dia-Bilder auf Film "druckt", die man dann zur Präsentation (pre-PowerPoint) nutzt

Das hier scheint schon die moderne Variante mit SCSI am Mac zu sein, in der Anzeige in #Byte von #Anno1984 war es noch ein Beistellgerät zu einem og IBM PC.

https://petapixel.com/2020/03/06/blast-from-the-past-using-the-polaroid-palette-to-make-35mm-negatives-from-iphone-photos/

Blast from the Past: Using the Polaroid Palette to Make 35mm Negatives from iPhone Photos

The hybrid processes from the transition to digital photography generated lots of garbage, cheap stuff to experiment with. This story is about one of

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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since most of these concepts have previously appeared at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (#PARC); the whole micro community owes Xerox a vote of thanks for acting as the software R&D center for the industry.

I can't imagine why #Xerox doesn't market some of the goodies they have developed, instead of exporting them to their competitors, but these discoveries sure helped us all. (j p) #gnihi #GUI #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1984

On Mondays and Wednesdays I'm sure Unix is the wave of the future.

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On Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm certain #Unix is dead.

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The rest of the week I refuse to think about it. (j p)

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| I would like to contribute 32,768$ or more (evenly divisible by 2) to help the staff.
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In the interest of sanity, we threw away all the mail dated prior to September 1, 1983. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1984
Erinnert an den NT-Kernel mit seinen Personalities, wie sie da HP-BASIC oder HP-UX drauf laufen lassen. #HpJournal #Anno1984