Weasel

@weaselx86
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California, Ireland, Colorado.
MS Math/CompSci UCLA.
Locus, Sun Microsystems; PDP-11, x86, C, Go.
Programming since 1973.
I wrote the program that calculated the GPA that appears on my high-school transcript.

Starting in 1984 I led the project at Locus to create the first x86 virtual machine, to run MS-DOS under Unix, on the AT&T 6300 Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6300_Plus).

The lines in the avatar are horizontal.
There should be no profit in human misery.

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A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

First heard as US and Israeli strikes on Iran began, the shortwave broadcast has since been traced to a US military base in Germany—but its purpose and its operator remain unclear.

WIRED

@lauren

OMG! I'd never seen that before.

@BrunoLevy01

Congratulations!

If you're serious about running Unix, I'd suggest trying to scrounge up the full 256KB of main memory. Back in 1979-1982 I ran the UCLA Math Department PDP-11. The Unix v6 kernel by itself was around 48KB; v7 was around 64KB with just a very few kernel buffers. You might be able to get it to run with 128KB, but remember userspace programs had to swap, not page, so the entire process has to fit resident in main memory to run.

@lauren

Yes, I remember watching the B machine swap off the DECtape one day after its RK05 drive died. Slow as hell, but it worked -- back and forth and back and forth.

I am 82 years old.
I have lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination, the Vietnam War, the Turmoil of 1968, Watergate, the Hostage Crisis, two oil crisis, disco, Reaganomics, 9/11.
The covid pandemic....
These past 11 months have been easily the most miserable era in America in my lifetime.
The hatred, the bigotry, the lies, the racketeering and pedophilia are beyond anything I have ever seen.
We are not going to hell as a nation.
We are IN hell.

Hell of a story from Julie Brown and The Miami Herald showing lots of suspicious document shredding at the prison where Epstein died in the days after.

#Epstein

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html

#BBC Plan to scrap most short jail terms comes into effect https://w.st/Pc73p
Plan to scrap most short jail terms comes into effect

The government hopes it will ease the population crisis in prisons.

@lauren

Remember booting and running Unix v6 off of a 2.5MB RK05 hard drive?

🚨Only 31% oppose the SAVE Act because most don't understand what it really means. THIS IS VOTER SUPPRESSION crafted by Project 2025 to prevent women from voting 😡 Please reshare 👇

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