* https://docs.riscv.org/reference/isa/unpriv/m-st-ext.html

And yes, I debugged one of the issues. I made the second comment in one of them. Markus Mayer did some debugging, too.

Then I had to deal with something completely unrelated to computers for the rest of that day and several days thereafter, and came back to this.

The problem with compiling code that used new kernel features was a bit poorly done. Anyone with any experience knows that a simple #if defined(__linux__) , which is a platform test, does not cut it for feature testing. M. Mayer went with an autotools test, which is what I'd have done too.

The problem with the on-the-wire protocol is a tricky one, and caused by suddenly being conservative in what rsync accepts apparently without much testing of what out-of-range stuff in-the-wild rsync sends.

But yes, people did all of that many years before it was done on the World Wide Web.

(There's some complexity as to whether Usenet was an Internet thing early on, as it did the whole dial-up-over-PSTN thing, that Fidonet did, quite a lot before settling on mainly NNTP.)

More so that you think. Piracy was not actually most of it. There was a whole thriving shareware system, which in Fidonet was done via FREQs. Tens of thousands of nodes pushing archived shareware softwares, many long since forgotten, around the globe.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350964

What's unusual here is rather the missing password prompt after 'login root', which is presumably what the fictional -n option (non-existent in BSD or Solaris login) is suppressing.

* https://illumos.org/man/1/login

* https://man.netbsd.org/login.1

* https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-topaz.t...

Although Unscii populates Unicode from a number of sources and leaves the source fonts at their original repertoires.

* https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f

* https://github.com/jdebp/funscii

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310191

* https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/protocol-specification.gmi

* https://iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml

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* https://tribblix.org/install-sparc.html

The way that the BSDs differentiate cannot be reduced in this way, not least because there is a lot of what Justin C. Sherrill (of the DragonFly Digest) calls 'cross-pollination' amongst the BSDs.

A case in point:

Superficially, and erroneously, one might observe that OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD have nvi, and only DragonFlyBSD has nvi2. In fact there was a three-way fork of actual Bostic nvi, all of them making revisions and leaving the original behind, and then things got really complex with nvi2 taking from OpenBSD's nvi, and FreeBSD's nvi taking from nvi2; not even getting into the existence of nvi-m17n along the way and how there are nvis in base and nvis in ports. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132452) One cannot divide the BSDs up into those that have nvi2 versus those that have nvi.

The split is complex in other areas, too.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=177625153728067

It's an interesting question for CIS URLs whether a url-path with an empty final component, that duplicates a url-path with an actual 'index' component (of some kind), is to be taken as the primary or the secondary form. When a site has 'index.php', 'index.html', 'index.gopher', 'index.gemini', and others, the question is whether the container is the same as the index file.