Notices by Lars Brinkhoff (larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org)

@amszmidt To fall is to be human. Winter the bad times and try to spring back.

@spacehobo @anon_opin

IBM may have the best mainframes, but DEC has a month named in its honor.

@amszmidt @weekend_editor @cstross Why is it hard?

I found it hard to write a Forth cross compiler. My mental block was mostly that the same symbol may refer to three different things depending on context. In a way, boostrapping a language using itself can be more confusing than doing it from another language.

@amszmidt Pay my bills.

@amszmidt Is the case made out of cardboard?!?

@amszmidt Alan Bawden wrote:

"The original CONS machine used a Knight TV monitor in addition to a Knight keyboard, so this could be the room where the CONS and original CADR machine consoles were located. The Lisp machines themselves were in the room next door along with Greenblatt's Chess machine -- so possibly this picture was taken during some experimenting with the Chess machine. No clue who the guy in the picture is."

@amszmidt I would say the right one is a Knight TV, would you agree? Both have the "old keyboard", i.e. Knight.

Hey @amszmidt, have you seen this?
Source: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/subject/computers-general-people-working-on-computers-2080

@vnikolov @weekend_editor @amszmidt @AmenZwa That's exactly how I ran and tested the transcription of a ~1970 Maclisp compiler. I wrote a subset Maclisp emulator in Common Lisp.

@weekend_editor @amszmidt @AmenZwa Even more so, Lisp code from the 60s. You can barely see it's the same language.

@amszmidt will you go? Will you show rms your CADR? Should I bring a PiDP-10?

@amszmidt @restorante Why am I being summoned? I don't see the post that was referred to, if there was any.
PS. Draw a pentagram next time. Extra salty.

@amszmidt Something, something, Chaosnet gateway. ??? Profit!

@bv @weekend_editor @amszmidt I'm considering setting up a wired network at home, but only allow EtherType 0x0804.

@bv @weekend_editor @amszmidt Chaosnet programming is fun and easy, both on the Unix and the ITS side. I don't know about the other platforms, but I would assume they are nice too.

@bv @weekend_editor @amszmidt Speaking of which, the EtherType page on Wikipedia didn't list Chaosnet, so I added it. Let's hope it gets to stay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherType#Values

@bv @weekend_editor @amszmidt It was reverted. "Not notable."

Code for EINE, the first Emacs clone, has appeared.
https://github.com/MITDDC/eine-1975-1981

Someone has NeWS up and running including UniPress Emacs.
https://bsky.app/profile/dvrc.bsky.social/post/3lrhwrxmomc23