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Tom Lyon ✅

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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967.
Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter)

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Blog	https://akapugs.blog/2022/11/10/mastodon/

Tom Lyon ✅1h ago

Happy Tukey day! Born this day, 1915.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey

John Tukey - Wikipedia

link fixed now

Grace R. Emlin 4d ago

@aka_pugs @chakie @hlangeveld Was it 1994, or thereabouts, that a Sun pizza box could take that much RAM? IIRC, the deskside SPARCs could take something like 640MB, with VME expansion cards, back around 1991.

Tom Lyon ✅4d ago

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Jan Ekholm 4d ago

@hlangeveld @aka_pugs 256MB at that time would have been super computer territory, I guess?

@aka_pugs MB or kB?

Apropos of nothing, here's a Sun Multibus Ethernet card (1983).

It used Intel's 82586 chip and an array of 256KB of memory because
(a) Multibus was slow, and
(b) The Sun-1 didn't support DMA from Multibus.

The horrors of programming this mess and others are described here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340934575_All_the_Chips_that_Fit

Tom Lyon ✅5d ago

Thomas Fuchs 6d ago

Meanwhile, 55 years ago

Tom Lyon ✅6d ago

European Commission 6d ago

Have you heard of Apple's decision on the rollout of Siri AI in Europe? Let's get the facts straight ⬇️

Tom Lyon ✅6d ago

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Marjolein Tamis 6d ago

@bert_hubert

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Tom Lyon ✅6d ago

But I insisted on seeing something on an HTTPS secured google site, so they sent me to sites.google.com/... - which failed, thanks goodness, because sites.google is where anyone can have a site.
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