• mc and glib

    From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Maurice Kinal on Sun Jan 16 12:49:26 2022
    Hello Maurice!

    09 Jan 2022 00:53, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

    with is good as a dec_alpha ready from 29 yaers ago :)

    I wouldn't know.

    you are still young then

    29 years ago there was only sparc(s) as far as I had

    +1

    access to. The mainframe was a dec but 32-bit VAX/VMS on there with a bunch of 9 track tape drives.

    8" floppy drives

    I heard it took roughly 24 hours to
    boot the damn thing up.

    it was just like 1kw energi at boot :=)

    I never actually witnessed a bootup but the
    source of that information was reliable so I went along with it.

    it was when gopher was the ting used for dokument serving, atleast gopher in bash was not impossible

    I got offered a 64-bit alpha - free but I had to pay the shipping -

    +1

    after they got sold to compaq. If I am not mistaken Tru64 was the OS
    of choice at that time. I think x86_64 is the only architecture that
    can run 32-bit libs/apps.

    i remember Tru64, but not what commes next

    only amiga needs it

    Highly unlikely to ever see the light of day here.

    i wish amiga gui and programs worked on linux today, but no its just a dream, a damm good loose for others

    I don't do
    emulators. What for?

    amiga os can run on linux libvirt, google icarus iso

    how does gopher work now ? :)


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Benny Pedersen on Sun Jan 16 15:11:06 2022
    Hey Benny!

    it was just like 1kw energi at boot :=)

    I am betting it was far more than that.

    i remember Tru64, but not what commes next

    For the Alpha, it was dropped soon after HP bought Compaq. I am not sure if there were any Alphas produced under the HP flag.

    i wish amiga gui and programs worked on linux today

    I've heard that before as well as wishes for a native linux for amiga, nevermind emulation.

    how does gopher work now ? :)

    Same as before. I only have lynx working for gopher connections.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

    ... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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