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@mnl ↑ you're in the above story, hope you like it!

mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl Mar 18

@miodvallat I was so young back then! I look back with a mix of nostalgia and shame 😂

@mnl Why shame? Your activity back then had been invaluable to make OpenBSD on m88k systems a reality rather than a bunch of unfinished pieces of code lying around.

mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl Mar 18

@miodvallat I was procrastinating a lot, although I guess I should learn acceptance with a diagnosis later in life :] I guess that period and being comfortable around old machines and OS did have a tremendous effect on my career and current work though.

@miodvallat great story, very interesting arch.

@usul Tu triches, t'as déja lu toute l'histoire !

@miodvallat donc je n'ai pas le droit de donner mon opinion ?

@usul Si, mais les gens vont croire que tu ne bases que sur ce qui a déjà été publié...

@miodvallat Il manque pas un lien vers tes belles histoire de l'oncle miod ici

@usul Tu crois ?

@miodvallat ben oui parce que ça à plus de perspective que "juste" openbsd.
Tu connais la BD "les belles histoires de l'oncle paul" ? Tes histoires ça y ressemble. OpenBSD est assez anecdotique dans ce que tu racontes (enfin de mon point de vue). D'où ma proposition les belles histoires de l'oncle Miod

Erwan 🚄Mar 18

@usul @miodvallat Je suis d'accord

@R1Rail @usul Vous êtes de mèche avec mes neveux ?

Stefan Sperling Mar 18

@miodvallat seems to be another one which Firefox on android's reader mode doesn't like.

Wild guess: maybe this depends on the CPU architecture discussed in the article?

@stsp damn. no breakfast reading for you, then!

Matthieu Herrb Mar 18

@miodvallat Even though I know that you know about it, your story misses the #Telmat TR5000 server in the list of machines that were built with m88k processors. Built in France and used a lot by #FranceTelecom. I found a picture here:
https://en.mandadb.hu/tetel/866653/Telmat_TR_5000
And a mention of the hisotry there:
https://forum.silicium.org/viewtopic.php?p=407798#p407798

Telmat TR 5000

@mherrb I did not intend to list all m88k users, there are too many of them!

@mherrb @miodvallat maybe poke https://m88k.com/orig/sys.html

badabada.org: Computers based on m88k

@usul @mherrb But the badabada site no longer exists, and the new m88k.com content is focused on Motorola's systems only...

https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html

Bryan Steele

Mar 18

For those who may not know, #OpenBSD still runs on Motorola 88K machines, more specifically the LUNA family of 90's Unix workstations released by Japanese company OMRON. There's even SMP support (w/ weird configurations, like 3 CPUs).

Largely a passion project by Kenji Aoyama as these machines are not easy to come, especially outside of Japan. It's possible to install 7.8 (or a -current snapshot, to try out Miod's 88k gcc4 port! ) using nono, a full system emulator for LUNA machines.

https://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/nono/ — (nono emulator, in OpenBSD ports/packages)

Gaëtan Duchaussois Mar 18

@miodvallat and another proof of how acting with human skills is not a weakness

@gduchaussois That clash could have been handled much, much better. (shrug)

Gaëtan Duchaussois Mar 18

@miodvallat you managed somehow to fix it. It makes me think about how tooling and behavior of the times made things difficult to build a diverse community welcoming newcomers

@gduchaussois Projects which lack a decent code of conduct are doomed to fail, eventually.