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Some "girly boys" who couldn't handle PDP-11 assembly.

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Jeff-Relf.Me

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Apr 20, 2018, 3:58:01 PM4/20/18
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> > > software companies are web companies now.
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> > Only the ones that YOU know about, fool.
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> You can't handle the truth.

Some "girly boys", who weren't manly enough to use PDP-11 assembly,
wrote a little (JavaScript) browser extension called "Discord";
it's IRC on steroids; popular on Reddit; gamers love it too;
and, get this, it's only worth 1.65$ billion... losers ! !

Sergio

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Apr 20, 2018, 4:31:24 PM4/20/18
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js on a pdp-11 boat anchor

Lofty Goat

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Apr 20, 2018, 5:45:13 PM4/20/18
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:57:49 -0700 (Seattle), Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:

> Some "girly boys", who weren't manly enough to use PDP-11 assembly,
> wrote a little (JavaScript) browser extension called "Discord"; it's
> IRC on steroids; popular on Reddit; gamers love it too; and, get this,
> it's only worth 1.65$ billion... losers ! !

Jeff, do you post to science groups because you want people to pity you?

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Goat

benj

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Apr 20, 2018, 6:34:06 PM4/20/18
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I'm pretty sure it's working!

Lofty Goat

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Apr 20, 2018, 8:59:53 PM4/20/18
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Pity and contempt. USENET's Janus mask.

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a.m

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Apr 21, 2018, 1:33:49 PM4/21/18
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:33:46 -0400, benj <be...@nobody.net> wrote:

Jeff Relf exists only as an example of "worst case scenario."

Michael Moroney

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Apr 21, 2018, 2:17:45 PM4/21/18
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Yes, Relf still hasn't learned proper Usenet manners, crossposting an
existing thread to unrelated groups.

As to last time I saw a PDP-11, yesterday. Sort of. I happen to have a
"PDP-11" integrated circuit, a Soviet clone of an F-11 chip. Back from
the days where PDP-11s and VAXen were export controlled but the USSR
would smuggle them and copy them.

Alexander Huszagh

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Apr 21, 2018, 2:40:31 PM4/21/18
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Last I checked, those "girly" boys include the entire LLVM infrastructure. Middle/mixed-endian is mostly a historical artifact at this point.

Lofty Goat

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Apr 21, 2018, 8:38:34 PM4/21/18
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I still have an S-100 board built on the Western Digital version of that
chip, a WD-16 Alpha Micro, and its successor, a still-working MC-68000
version of the same brand of computer. Programmed both in Macro-11.
(The 68000 instruction set was quite similar.)

In the early '80s one could simulate a PC on the MC-68000 faster than a
PC would run. Today the reverse is true.

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Goat

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