This collection is a great complement to the everything-x86 PC workstation jungle of the day.

I built a huge tower PC server to run NeXTStep in 1993, but I had no idea how difficult hardware comparability would be. It was a journey. But things improved quickly. So I installed lots of these: OS/2, Windows NT, NextStep, BeOS, Linux, various BSDs.

I found a Computer Shopper from that time. I'm pretty sure I bought one of the tower cases from page 786. Great stuff. Tell them I sent you!

https://archive.org/details/computer-shopper-march-1993/

The model number was decided long before the transistor-level design was finalized.

Going from memory, and didn't verify.

We also had PBS at Channel 18, I believe.

(I tried to read what I wrote for errors, as autocorrect can smash any attempt at careful writing. But I didn't catch this.

Was invisible to me because I was reading the meaning of what I was attempting to say.

I think I just learned about semantic typos. Meme-os?)

The channels refer to specific radio frequency allocations. Anything below Channel 12 is "Very High Frequency", and anything above that is "Ultra High Frequency". The Channel number was basically arbitrary, but went up in frequency in numerical order, so Channel 5 had a higher frequency than Channel 17.

The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength, and in general the smaller the area of coverage. Fewer viewers. The big networks dominated VHF, megawatt transmitters that could reach the entire metro area and beyond. In the Atlanta area, we had all three major networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC on Channels 2, 5, and 11.

UHF was the domain of independent operators, who filled airtime with anything they could get. Mostly old TV shows and movies from syndicate distributors. Channel 17 was mostly old movies, while Channel 36 featured old TV shows. "Superman" and "The Lone Ranger". "Star Trek". Later in the evening, 1950s schlock horror or flying saucer films...

With an uneven format and transmission range that limited viewership and advertising revenue, it could be more challenging for the UHF stations to make ends meet. When Channel 17 ran into financial difficulties, Ted Turner pumped it up. UHF stations typically signed off at night, went off the air, but the Turner Superstation was 24 hours a day.

Apparently, Ted Turner was playing a long game.

(Also apparently, I watched a lot of television as a 1970s latchkey kid.)

That might be a neat effect on the glass roof of a car.)

In theory, the motivation for position independent code was to support the development and use of software libraries that could be "plugged in" to an application.

In practice, RAM was often limited to 16 KB; software reuse that I'm familiar with on a 6809 platform was at the source-code level and optimized by the programmer.

I remember editing and assembling, but not compiling or linking.

That said, I believe Motorola wrote some floating-point libraries.

I was a kid on a Tandy Color Computer, and the $49.95 EDTASM cartridge was a huge investment for our family. So my point of view could be way off... but the simplicity of the Color Computer with the design of the 6809 made programming delightful. (20 years later, my enjoyment in programming the Palm Pilot felt like that... although by then I could use C as a fancy macro assembler.)

Larger and later systems could use OS-9, which reasonably resembled UNIX and maybe supported a C compiler.

We may have inflation in more than one sense: prices have gone up, and perhaps the size of burgers and hot dogs have also increased.

No doubt I can find portion size clues if I look around. Haven't done so yet.

The article goes into some detail on the extra effort required to implement FPU hardware emulation on a platform that did not especially support it.

Modern implementation of FPU emulation might be more straightforward.

I haven't worked with FPU emulation on microcontrollers, which is probably the most common use case these days.

I first studied back-propagation in 1988, at the same time I fell in love with HyperCard programming. This project helps me recall this elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

Action against The Enemy replaces any action to directly address economic and social marginalization.

It's how we process information. Avoiding this cognitive glitch takes practice.

I would describe both Playboy and Penthouse as primarily pornography. As such, they were both wildly popular in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Omni was not that. I had a subscription to Omni from the first issue in 1978 until about 1983. Pop science, science fiction, fantasy art, interviews and features on space exploration policy... and junk science, UFOs, psychic powers, cults. News of the wierd.

(Without huge infrastructure dedicated to car welfare, Phoenix is uninhabitable.)

But that's not what this is. Or not only:

Nexus Kernel Bridge

Nexus is Vitruvian's custom Linux kernel subsystem that brings BeOS-style node monitoring, device tracking, and messaging to Linux — making it possible to run Haiku applications on a standard Linux kernel.

It claims to run apps from Haiku, the current open-source implementation of a modern BeOS.

Examples of auxiliary devices where you want redundancy: there can be a write cache (the ZFS Intent Log, or ZIL). You can also dedicate a fast device for hot items like the deduplication tables, or a dedicated device for tiny files where data can be stored directly in the directory data, rather than allocating a separate data block.

(Which makes the system worse. The fiction of a fiduciary responsibility to extract top dollar from a business regardless of consequences is the opposite of "capitalism". Which derives its name from the practice of sound investment to build something of lasting value.

To say nothing of the social deviance of for-profit healthcare.)