Notices by HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦 (lkundrak@metalhead.club)

Story of Mr. Robert, the bad ass #Unix porter, gets no less amusing afterwards.

There's a working self-hosting C compiler, various utilities also get ported to the Interdata operating system. But also -- parts of the kernel. The computer is in use during the day, so rebooting to test out a kernel is not an option! Towards the end of the development, Robert needs to test kernels at night.

They eventually switch to UNIX and call the Bell Labs about their port, and their collective jaws dropped -- they were also doing a port for an Interdata machine. But needless to say, had an actual UNIX computer!

Oh, and Robert didn't use that third round-trip! 🧠🪓

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Richard Miller's "The First #Unix Port" [1] paper (not to be confused with similarly named article of his colleague, Mr. Reinsfeld) tells a story that's pretty damn wild.

Task: Port Unix from PDP-11 to their new Interdata 7/32 computer
Travel budget: three round-trips to New South Wales uni, the closest UNIX installation on a PDP-11

Robert has no C compiler. Learns C by reading the PDP-11 compiler source printout, ports it to Interdata completely off line. Two visits to to New South Wales, runs the port through UNIX C compiler, feeds it itself, debugs a little, returns with Interdata assembly of a working compiler.

[1] https://archive.org/details/the-first-unix-port

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@q66 i vididly remember when vader from poland were playing, string on a guitar broke and dude went on saying something like:

oh prepraszam kurwa, sznurek broke. i'll fix zaraz, then play more piosenke

czech audience brusts into mad laughter, tough death metal posse lost forever

@neil the joke is not great but i need to say i still empathize with juan who after a tough day at work finally went ahead to turn off his laptop, typed halt and heard the computer room go silent

# halt
The remote host has closed the connection.
$

reminder that the OG gospel, mark, didn't contain resurrection until like 4th century

but don't worry jesus certainly respawned. it's just that nobody cared. praise him ❤️

@marquisdegeek what, polite e-mails didn't work?

dm me if you need a shady eastern european to meet them in the parking lot

jia tan appointed new intel ceo

really trying to increase productivity

@monsieuricon @LWN @corbet are you implying that there are models that are busy being trained to call someone a fuckface over misunderstanding of some obscure arm coprocessor register or respond with viro insults to the most unsuspecting victims?

good news for windows 10 users: after 2025/10/14 the performance of your systems will no longer be randomly ruined by windows update.

only by windows defender

@pony no 'sl'?
outrageous!!

@piggo yes, nothing more satisfying than getting rid of SUVs!!

The theme for @Kitty's #TuneTuesday today is #CanisLupus

Of Wolf an Fear, from probably the best black metal album out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDMDV6kO-4&list=PLiN-7mukU_REunOByxMgxmVKNfUsagV3q

#Ulver 🇳🇴

oh, le pen le died
good <3

@libreoffice have they finally managed to build it?

Fedi:
"I'll follow this biologist, that lawyer and the psychiatrist over there, to widen my perspective a bit"

biologist: *i wrote this plugin in python for my blogging engine*
lawyer: *look at this nifty shell script i wrote*
psychiatrist: *i use arch btw*

@bagder 100% could've been avoided had you not been using any language!

the urinal putin turned out okay

@oleksandr @pony @jwildeboer *shriek*

@kravietz "Memes for distribution in Ukrainian publics" hope these are good because in my experience these people have a fairly peculiar taste when it comes to memes and shitposts in general