Hacker News: classichasclass

New comment by classichasclass in "Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s"

classichasclass — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:09:54 +0000

That's exactly the reason. NetBSD uses its own booter for the same purpose, for example.

New comment by classichasclass in "Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s"

classichasclass — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:05:24 +0000

A/UX 1.0 came on a pre-written 80MB disk, which indeed would have been a lot easier.

New comment by classichasclass in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

classichasclass — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:18:38 +0000

No, that's pretty accurate as I recall. Windows 2000 took a bit, but when it was up, it was up. Windows XP would pop you into what appeared to be a functional desktop quickly, but it was still loading in the background, and some things just sort of sat there for awhile. Win2K was much more predictable. When I wasn't on a Mac during my consultant days, it was on Windows 2000, because it was much more stable than the 98 clients.

New comment by classichasclass in "Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork"

classichasclass — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:28:52 +0000

es40 is an emulator that emulates an AlphaServer ES40 series system.

New comment by classichasclass in "How do wombats poop cubes?"

classichasclass — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:23:29 +0000

If someone hasn't submitted this for an Ig Nobel, it would be a calamity.

New comment by classichasclass in "Chip Off The Old Block"

classichasclass — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:17:46 +0000

Okay, legal nerds: would the consumption of a cup of Gatorade count as usufruct? That sounds like abusus instead.

New comment by classichasclass in "Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD"

classichasclass — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:13:27 +0000

(author) My understanding is that they're wired into the AMD southbridge which provides them over memory mapped I/O.

New comment by classichasclass in "Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD"

classichasclass — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:20:58 +0000

Thanks, I'll try that.

New comment by classichasclass in "Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD"

classichasclass — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:15:16 +0000

(author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

classichasclass — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:36:35 +0000

Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704087

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by classichasclass in "OS9Map"

classichasclass — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:32:46 +0000

Currently my "big" native 9.2.2 system is a MDD G4 with a Sonnet 1.8GHz dual 7447A upgrade, 2GB RAM (1.5GB useable in OS 9) and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. I'm sure there's a config more extreme than that out there. It is a pleasure to use even though it's one of the windtunnel systems.

New comment by classichasclass in "PowerFox Browser"

classichasclass — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:05:52 +0000

Thanks! I wish modern JavaScript were a little kinder to it, but I still use it myself for basic tasks.

New comment by classichasclass in "PowerFox Browser"

classichasclass — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:05:09 +0000

Yes, my poor 1.33GHz iBook G4 really drags in it now, but it suffices for simple things and grabbing files for the tasks it still does.

New comment by classichasclass in "1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone"

classichasclass — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:24:04 +0000

Commodore made all kinds of wacky stuff back in the day before they concentrated entirely on computers and peripherals. I have a Commodore AM radio and a couple of Commodore wristwatches, chickenhead logos and all, not to mention the calculators and typewriters which were their original bread and butter.

New comment by classichasclass in "PowerFox Browser"

classichasclass — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:17:59 +0000

(TenFourFox maintainer) Thanks, glad it was helpful to you. There is some TenFourFox code in this respin which is being used to support the widget code, and there is work in progress to forward-port its JIT. I'm not writing that code but I am advising on it as questions come up.

New comment by classichasclass in "Web Browsers on PDAS"

classichasclass — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:29:45 +0000

The AlphaSmart dana had its own widescreen browser on PalmOS. Modern sites bring it to its knees, but it's a nicer experience than a smaller PDA screen when it works.

New comment by classichasclass in "A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)"

classichasclass — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:35:44 +0000

The 6502 isn't a 6809 clone; it was largely inspired by the 6800.

New comment by classichasclass in "A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022)"

classichasclass — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:01:29 +0000

I've got a DEC Pro 380 myself ( https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/03/more-pro-for-dec-profess... ). It's a heck of a desktop computer, and you can run some early Unices on them. The Pro and the DECmate II are some of the best built systems of the era despite their idiosyncrasies, IMHO.

New comment by classichasclass in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

classichasclass — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:22:52 +0000

Betting Alpha was the native architecture in question. It seemed to have the best support.

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

classichasclass — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:31:15 +0000

Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/building-serial-and-vga-everything.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523615

Points: 63

# Comments: 6