Notices by Michael Engel (me_@sueden.social)

@mxk Und das für die fürstliche Entlohnung von E11…

While looking for interesting Japanese computers, I came across an ad for SONY NEWS workstations which included this picture. What's interesting is the set of books on that desk...

@thomasfuchs Uh, 8 users on an 8 MHz 80286 running SVR2. That sounds like quite a challenge for the machine...

@th @thomasfuchs Is it a SparcStation (1/1+/2) or a Sun 3/80? Hard to tell...

"A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built."

Niklaus Wirth – A Plea for Lean Software

https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

@thomasfuchs Hmm, interesting challenge. Same length only so far:
1?cH(205+rN(1)*2);:gO1

Sad news – Niklaus Wirth passed away on January 1st 😢. RIP.

https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347

#oberon #modula2 #retrocomputing

We all know "hexspeak" magic hexadecimal constants used in #Unix code such as 0xdeadbeef or 0xcafebabe (magic number for universal Mach-O files as well as Java class files). This one found by Colin Gordon during an internship in the #Solaris team at #Sun Microsystems in 2007 was new to me... (/usr/src/uts/common/sys/dumphdr.h)

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20091120220224/http://blogs.sun.com:80/csg/