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

@gewt This is because OpenBSD is 100% secure, and this is achieved by running 0% useful application. CC @amszmidt

@amszmidt @vnikolov @weekend_editor @Ardubal These are my facts, and if you don't like them I have others.

@vnikolov @weekend_editor @amszmidt @Ardubal Note my snark also covers CAR and CDR.

@amszmidt @Ardubal insert-destructively-into-integer-bang!

@amszmidt @Ardubal As for Common Lisp: we forgot where the name came from but we think we inherited some random characters from 60+ years ago.

@amszmidt @Ardubal A True Schemer can't even DPB without first writing a "Lambda the Ultimate Bit Inserter" paper about it, and then designing a hardware DPB chip in VLSI.

@amszmidt There's also the related Design Programming Language, or DPL. Among other things, they were used for the SCMEME-81 chip.

The scheme-chip.net person and I will make an effort to recover this software.

@amszmidt Have you seen a VLSI design suite called Daedalus? It's written in Lisp; started on ITS and moved over to the CADR.

@amszmidt From a brief look, it seems like a faithful replica. Do you agree?

@inthehands @jwz This sounds like fun, but impractical. If you want the hack value, go for it!

As for me, I just want to edit text in style. That's the problem I'd like to solve.

Please, it's urgent! https://media.cs.rutgers.edu/Events/Amarel/Powerpoints/1/sld003.htm

Hot take? Every editable text field should be an Emacs buffer. I don't want your semi-arsed Emacs keybindings, I want the full thing.

@AmenZwa @brouhaha UNIX is clearly not incompatible enough. I know a timesharing system that is.

@jcs Can confirm. @amszmidt

@aka_pugs I believe SUDS drawings for the early Sun hardware can be found on PDP-10 backups. Thoughts?

@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.