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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 20:29:42 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   #LispMachine just got support for the new Trident T-2400 and T-4800 hard drives.

   They are 8, respectively 16 times bigger than a standard Trident T-300. Get them free just by multiplying your cylinder and head values.

   #LispM Revolution Gone Wild.

   (yes, that is bigger than what the Hurd supports)

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 20:52:01 JST Elias Mårtenson

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     @amszmidt I just realised that there is apparently still development on hurd going on. It does appear that the lisp machines gets more progress.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 20:52:01 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke and you can run CADR on actual hardware… Hurd requires 32-bit PeeCee that are unobtanium. /snarky

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:39:04 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke Lisp Machine might become 64-bit soon.

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:39:05 JST Elias Mårtenson

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     @amszmidt yeah, the fact that they still haven't gotten it to work on 64-bit platforms after 20 years is quite remarkable.

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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:48:14 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

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     @amszmidt Wow, I've been waiting for new Trident disk drive models for like, forever! Though I doubt that qi can afford them.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:49:13 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

     @brouhaha they are cheap cheap! Just two multiplications! New years special only!

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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:50:05 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

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     @amszmidt No, I need the real hardware!
     :-)

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:50:37 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

     @brouhaha SD card? 🤪

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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:51:24 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

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     @amszmidt No, an SD card won't plug into the Trident interface.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:52:59 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

     @brouhaha what is the trident hooked up too? Shouldn’t be too difficult to make a Trident interface to some FPGA thing.. or a Beagle?

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:54:52 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke we are pondering how to extend the CADR in various ways. One is 32-bit or 64-bit pointers and fixnums.. it would be incompatible with real CADR but who cares if one can have 32G of RAM.

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:54:53 JST Elias Mårtenson

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     @amszmidt Really? Tell me more.

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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 22:12:28 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

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     @amszmidt
     T-302 (SMD) connected to a PDP-11/70
     To use (somewhat) modern mass storage, I have a Unibus SCSI controller.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:41:43 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

     @brouhaha that shouldn’t be to hard to switch to something else? Trident technology is the exclusively patented and trademarked — it uses quantum alien technology with artificial intelligent quantum computing algorithms.