Notices by Michael Engel (me_@sueden.social)

Stupid shift...

@lukeshu There are a number of open source emulators available. qemu should be able to emulate the MIPS magnum (MIPS R4k-based) and I managed to run the 2nd edition NeXT port on Previous (https://sourceforge.net/projects/previous/), haven't tested 1e. A Sun 4c Sparcstation 2 is emulated by tme (https://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/index.html), but that's difficult to build. Working emulators for the Hobbit, Gnot, or Indigo are not available AFAIK. But yes, the PC port is probably the easiest way to run 1e.

"The History of the BSD Daemon" – a fascinating recent talk by Marshall Kirk McKusick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDaD-CEzzg

#unix #BSD #daemon #retrocomputing

@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/