https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/09/12/three-altern...

Minix 3 is a true microkernel Unix-compatible: it can run most of the NetBSD userland, for instance. It is probably the single most widely run Unix-like OS in the desktop/server world, as a copy runs in the hidden management engine inside every Intel CPU made in the last decade and a half or so. Whether the machine runs Windows, Linux, xBSD, macOS, it doesn't matter: deep inside it's running Minix.

But Intel committed nothing back and never even told the OS's creator. He only found out years later:

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/

What does that mean?

(This entire thread is very hard for this Brit to follow. So many unknown words and whole concepts.)

A bin is any trashcan in BrEn... in your office, in your kitchen or bathroom, behind the house, whatever. So it's still not an ideal match.

Watch me.

I absolutely can and do. And pictures, and videos, and picture posts, and comics, and all image-format content.

If it wasn't worth creating with someone's brain, it is never ever worth my time to consume the prompt output.

Send me the prompt. I might look, if I'm bored.

EDIT: this is the one I was thinking of...

https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2026/06/01/quality-in-the-ag...

But this is relevant too...

https://bersas.substack.com/p/zen-and-the-dance-of-generativ...

The "Boaty McBoatface" campaign was from 2016. "Lord Buckethead" first appeared in 1987, some 30 years earlier.

A "bin" in BrEn does not mean a generic container: it generally means a receptacle for waste, refuse, or garbage.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833164

Points: 4

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I speedread and can read text faster than his computer's voice -- but not by much. It is very impressive, and very hard to use.

But I am the only sighted person he's met who can use his PC. I navigate Windows mostly by keyboard, and he has no mouse. It slows me down slightly but I can still use it.

(He does have a screen on his family computer, so sighted family and friends can watch films with him. His work one has no screen.)

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-p...

Colly Myers, former Psion MD and Symbian CEO, who died in February, was his half-brother.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778087

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

> If it was true

Of course it is true. That is why I explained the length of my relevant experience.

> you could explain how and why

Why bother to an annoying troll?

ELI5:

My job is to understand complicated computer stuff and explain it in easy words.

My editor's job is to write headlines that will get people to read what I wrote.

I know the tech. The editor knows the readers.

This is how the job is done, and there are good reasons, and it works. Since you are a random angry shouty man with a made-up name on the internet, I am not going to waste my time trying to explain it to you, as you will just shout insults at me from behind your silly offensive pseudonym.

You don't understand and it is very clear that you don't want to. You prefer to hide behind a made up name and throw insults.

I am not playing your childish game.

There's another all-software ST emulator out there called Aranym:

https://aranym.github.io/

It has its own all-FOSS ST-compatible OS distro, AFROS:

https://aranym.github.io/afros.html

Aranym is aimed at running ST GEM as well as possible on modern machines, for productivity apps and so on -- so it sacrifices absolute hardware compatibility in favour of performance and features like high screen resolutions.

I would love to see a bare-metal Raspberry Pi version of Aranym, to turn a spare Pi into the fastest maxed-out Atari TT030 ever. :-)