larsbrinkhoff

larsbrinkhoff, 1 day ago to random

I'm sad to learn Gordon Bell passed away on May 17th.

larsbrinkhoff, 5 days ago to random

#OnThisDay The PDP-10 family was cancelled 41 years ago at DECUS.

mwichary, 1 month ago to random

What would you consider as the most recognizable bitmap fonts in tech history?

I’m imagining stuff like:

• the arcade/Atari font
• Chicago (Mac, then iPod)
• VCR/video equipment fonts
• Minecraft font
• IBM PC fonts (MDA, VGA, stuff like that)
• perhaps System font from Windows 3.x
• Commodore 64, just because of the sheer popularity of the machine

What am I missing?

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larsbrinkhoff, 1 month ago to random

When Xerox PARC was refused a PDP-10 from the competitor DEC, the researchers built their own clone. #OnThisDay 46 years ago, their 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 clone went online on the ARPA network.

larsbrinkhoff, 1 month ago to random

#OnThisDay 57 years ago, MIT students arranged the Great Subway Race. Peter Samson computed the itinerary using LISP running on the AI lab PDP-6.

foone, 1 month ago to random

I know I really should prefer ARM given that it was designed by My People, but I just can't help it:
My favorite processor is 32bit x86

larsbrinkhoff, 2 months ago to random

Everyone is posting their PiDP-10 vanity photos, so I might as well join in.

brouhaha, 2 months ago to random

You've heard of C++ smart pointer classes, e.g. unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and weak_ptr?
Well, I've just implemented a new C++ dumb pointer class, which I call leak_ptr. Maybe it should be standardized. I could probably have a proposal ready for submission to WG21 by the first.

larsbrinkhoff, 2 months ago to random

Happy birthday PDP-10! #OnThisDay 57 years ago, the PDP-10 was first powered on.

larsbrinkhoff, 2 months ago to random

#OnThisDay 46 years ago, Multics Emacs was started.

I'd like to seize this opportunity to correct a persistent rumor that Multics Emacs was the first Emacs written in Lisp. EINE predates it by about a year.

larsbrinkhoff, 2 months ago to random

Which gifts are y'all buying for PDP-10's birthday next week? Send them to me, I will pass them on.

"Whoopee, it goes!"

larsbrinkhoff, 2 months ago to random

#OnThisDay 55 years ago, the iconic DEFUN macro was first announced.

larsbrinkhoff, 2 months ago to random

I'm getting a lot of spam here on Mastodon. It's from a diverse set of users and servers. What do I do?

larsbrinkhoff, 3 months ago to random

#OnThisDay 45 years ago, the MIT
AI Lab PDP-10 magic switch was removed.

lauren, 3 months ago to random

It's fascinating that the experience of using computer CLIs (Command Line Interfaces) has essentially changed not at all since the early days of interactive computing and timesharing. In fact, for those of us using Linux systems, the experience is pretty much identical to what it was on the earliest UNIX systems of the 1970s, and in fact we still commonly use the same commands, utilities, and other command line tools. So about half a century. That's either amazing or terrifying depending on your point of view. Or more likely, both.

realhackhistory, 3 months ago to hacking

New #FBI #FOIA file just released to me, the subject is ARPANET #hacking in 1983. Will get it up on archive.org tomorrow.
#hackers #hacker #history

larsbrinkhoff, 3 months ago to random

Emacs mode for editing Maclisp.
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/maclisp-mode

larsbrinkhoff, 4 months ago to random

Always ensure you are fully EMACSed.

larsbrinkhoff, 4 months ago to random

Fixed a 10+ year old bug in Emacs M-x what-page.

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=68215

loke, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Are you familiar with these files?