It is not an easy task to make the #80286 perform multitasking or mode switching. [..] Jerry Pournelle describes the process this way: "You have to clunk it over the head and knock it out When it's waking up -- but before it realize it's been reset -- you shout: 'Stop! Stop! Don't reset! It's all a terrible dream.'" (f h) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989
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Is somebody aware of something like an “all time index” over all BYTE magazine issues? I'm specifically searching for BYTE articles on DTP (desktop publishing). The magazines itself are available via @internetarchive (mostly complete) but I don't want to manually walk through every single issues table of contents. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #byte
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It was a long recording session, and Jason did an excellent job on editing it to make me sound far more coherent. I did kind of laugh listening back to it when he asked me at the end "Do you have anything more to add to the topic?" and I just said "Nope!"
In under 2 hours for the episode, which I consider a win. We could have held a symposium on that issue of #BYTE alone...
≠51 … I have seen things you wouldn’t believe …
… ribbon cables for hard drives… Master/Slave #SCSI termination… (mind screams in rebellion)… the little switch boxes to hook your original #Nintendo console or #VIC20 to a TV and then get headaches from staring at the TV CRT too closely…. a VIC-20 cassette drive with a box of about 150+ unlabeled tapes… painstakingly typed in from the listings in #BYTE magazines… Taking low-density 3.5″ floppies, and drilling/punching a hole through to double your storage and make them “high-density”…. the squeal of a modem (and trying to get the #IRQ conflicts resolved via changing jumper switches)… attempting to connect to #Datapac to try and reach unknown systems, running a #BBS inside a #DOS box, on #386(SX) #Windows 3.0 machine, Setting up your own #UUCP #internet over #dialup…
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…
The clicking of an #IOMEGA #ZIP drive, whose time it was to die…
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The integer data that are directly supported by the computer hardware have a fixed width of a low power of 2, e.g. 8 bits ≙ 1 byte.
A system of units based on powers of 2 is used by MS Windows: 1 gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1024exp3 bytes.
The C and C++ programming languages define #byte as an "addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment" (clause 3.6 of the C standard).
Ein hübsches Tool, um mal wieder in der verstaubten MP3-Sammlung auf der Festplatte zu stöbern, ist #Byte. Den kleinen Musikplayer gibts als Flatpak für #Linux. Und er spielt nicht nur lokale Musikdateien sondern auch Internetradiostreams ab. Gibts auf flathub.org. Ich hab ihn für c't 8/2024 getestet, den Kurztest gibts jetzt auch auf heise+.