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Open drivers for NVIDIA Turing+ GPUs released for @haiku:
https://github.com/X547/nvidia-haiku/
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520/162

With this, it is now possible to have GPU acceleration in public builds of Haiku for the very first time!

#haiku #haikuos #nvidia #nvk #zink

GitHub - X547/nvidia-haiku: Haiku drivers for Nvidia Turing+ GPUs based on official Nvidia kernel driver sources, Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver and Mesa Zink OpenGL driver

Haiku drivers for Nvidia Turing+ GPUs based on official Nvidia kernel driver sources, Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver and Mesa Zink OpenGL driver - X547/nvidia-haiku

GitHub

RIP Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame

https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-cheifet

Stewart Cheifet Obituary 2025 - Goldsteins Funeral

Stewart Douglas Cheifet, age 87, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on December 28, 2025. Stewart was born on September 24, 1938, to Paul and Anne Cheifet in Philadelphia, where h...

Goldsteins Funeral
Looks like Stewart Cheifet (most famously known as the host of Computer Chronicles) passed away on December 28, 2025:

https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-cheifet
Stewart Cheifet Obituary 2025 - Goldsteins Funeral

Stewart Douglas Cheifet, age 87, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on December 28, 2025. Stewart was born on September 24, 1938, to Paul and Anne Cheifet in Philadelphia, where h...

Goldsteins Funeral

I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing about it and simply bought it because it looked rad and the price was low. I had no idea that it was not IBM PC-compatible, and that there were very few programs available for it.

I have been on a quest to get a modern-ish word processor and spreadsheet program for it ever since. Which eventually made me "port" Windows 2 on it. In this post, I share the story of the port. Many photos inside!

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/

the first single by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers from 1970, a fun Christmas song making fun of American kids getting "war toys" for Christmas during the Vietnam war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRPam4W3-w
Stan Rogers - Here's to You, Santa Claus

YouTube

Oh and by the way, there are more tapes. Did I mention there are more tapes? No, I don't think I did. We sent a box of other tapes to the Computer History Museum along with the UNIX V4 tape. These are considerably newer, are not necessarily "lost", and may not be redistributable due to licensing issues.

But, for what it's worth, here are what the labels say they are:

* HP-UX 8.07 Sources for HP9000/S700, tar format (1 tape per: NFS, SAM, Commands, ARPA, Kernel, Network Services), DDS 60m
* HP-UX 9.01 Sources for HP9000/S700, tar format (1 tape total containing: ARPA, Commands, Help, Kernel, NFS, Network Services, SAM), DDS 60m
* ODE build environment, rc_files tools src, HP 92283A DDS 60m
* OSF1 Acorn 1.0 from Utah 6/25/92 INCOMPLETE, dd image of ‘c’ partition of Quantum 425S (64k blocks), HP92283A DDS 60m
* OSF Research Institute AD2.0 for X86 (tar format), Sony DDS 60m
* OSF Research Institute MK6.1 Release, September 27 1994, DDS 60m Media Recognition System
* HP-UX 8.01 single tar file of root and /usr, 8/22/91, HP 92283A DDS 60m
* Transarc Distribution Tapes, Sony DDS DG-60m (Restricted Rights Legend):
* Binary Distribution rs_aix31 x2 (AFS Version 3.1a and 3.1b)
* Binary Distribution HP300_UX70 x2 (AFS Version 3.1a and 3.1b)
* Source Distribution hp700_ux80 x2 (AFS Version 3.1b)
* Binary Distribution sun4c_411 x2 (AFS Version 3.1a and 3.1b)
* Source Distribution AFS 3.1a (AFS Version 3.1a)
* Source Distribution (Unknown) (AFS Version 3.1b)
* Acorn S115 sources tar b20 1/31/92, HP 92283A DDS 60m
* HP-UX 8.05 recovery system 2/18/92, HP 92283A DDS 60m
* HP-UX 8.05 backup of 720, HP 92283A DDS 60m
* Mt Xinu More/bsd 4.3 6250bpi Source Distribution 6/15/88 (4 tar files: usr/src, usr/src/sys, usr/ingres/source, usr/src/new)

I'll let you know if they find anything interesting on them!

Reacción del programador y leyenda Rob Pike al recibir un email "de agradecimiento" de Claude.

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Frobpike.io%2Fpost%2F3matwg6w3ic2s&viewtype=tree

#RobPike #Claude #AI

Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.
  • Type-safe, checked branches
  • Evaluation of the input expression only once
  • No errors on unused branches

Pick three.

Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found.

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20251223/?ms261223