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ncommander

@ncommander@restless.systems

An endless seeker who tries to do what I can to make things just a little better in the world.

Created Mixer's FTL, founded SoylentNews, and likes cursed computing!

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Progress in two screenshots:

The first is distributed.net crunching RC5-72 on the VAX. 8,188 keys on its single 25Mhz processor.

The second is my MacBook Pro, after I patched dnetc to build on Mac OS X/aarch64. 8.9 million keys!

ncommander,
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Fun fact, did you know that clang as and gas use incompatible assembly syntaxes on an architecture that is less than two decades old?

Read my comment to find out how I dealt with this.

https://github.com/NCommander/dnetc-client-base/commit/8b176ceb92a800b6ff9fa448ebfecba5a8cee445

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Distributed.net has a NetBSD/vax client, which appears to still work ...

ncommander,
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So um ... it crunches

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and it crashes when you control C it

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This was probably compiled as a joke ...

Me trying to use it is alsoa. joke ...

I realistically wonder how long it would take to finish a block ...

ncommander,
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The "20 second benchmark" is taking a lot more than 20 seconds ...

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@ktnjared The client was compiled in 2004 on NetBSD/vax. Like, I feel like someone did it as a joke.

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I appreciate that I'm using a stupid amount of processing power to restream a literial text console that maxed out at 9600 baud on a 25MHz VAX

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So given the stream interruption, and having to redumpt he second part of the disk, I finally took a look at it to reveal ....

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THE VAX IS ATTEMPTING TO START NETBSD!

(Ultrix is providing a mop server, and I am using the boot.mop from NetBSD 10. It's not entirely happy)

ncommander,
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IT BOOTS!

ncommander,
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There was supposed to be a screenshot there!

ncommander,
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Anyway, I'm reading out the HDD, which apparently has OpenVMS on it, but is going to take 15 hours to dump.

The backplane of this machine tops out at 3 Mbps.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpbouFELwB4 - for those who want to watch a VAX dump its hard drive over NFS in real time. Come on by. ETA, 15 hours!

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Well we're going places ...

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There's a ship of thesius joke on running NetBSD/vax on SIMH.

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Today, I learned that you have to request the journaled filesystem on NetBSD, and one shouldn't just blindly enable it if you accepted the partitioners default, since then you'll end up with a FFSv1 filesystem, and -o log will trash it.

(ask me how I know this).

(EDIT: this was on NetBSD/vax, which no doubt contributed a factor)

ncommander,
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@slyecho its possible the HDD was already going iffy, but I don't like getting trashed file systems, and the man page suggests you need to convert it to FFS2 manually first.

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The honest truth is the visuals for the next video will be very simple because man, there's not a lot to see in NetBSD from a user level.

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Nice to see NetBSD-10/evbarm-aarch64 works fine in UTM!

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The great purge begins. Two boxes of trash tossed, one box for storage loaded and packed in the car.

ncommander,
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I'm now up to half a car load. It should be noted that to take each item to the car requires going down multiple flights of stairs and then its a walk.

But each bit I d is one I don't need to do later.

ncommander,
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Car load #1 complete. This is a massive mental win.

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Car load #1 has reached my storage unit, and is now stored.

It feels like a pattle cleanser for the soul ...

I wasn't able to get a close parking spot so I probably won't be able to load another round today (I can stage it though).

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