I’ve been enjoying this series. Particularly because I went into it without a clear idea of which computing tasks an OS kernel is responsible for. It’s very specific to the Linux kernel, but it’s a good introduction to the idea of a kernel.
It’s very specific to the Linux kernel, but it’s a good introduction to the idea of a kernel.
You mean you were unsure which tasks Linux is responsible for in general, outside the context of this episode? (I don’t think I caught any reference to Linux in this episode). Not trying to judge, just trying to understand what you meant.
Oh geez! I’ve embarrassed myself. I’ve been reading an “advent calendar of linux system calls” and I thought this post linked to that series. Sorry for the confusion. Here’s a link https://osg.tuhh.de/Advent/ I really should have clicked the link, or read the tilte more carefully before commenting.
You can play with on the Internet Archive
Nice, the description of Hofstadter made me smile :)
I didn’t actually write any programs with the language (that doesn’t sound fun, ha!). But a few of my students did. They even debated whether it is Turing complete or not.”
Did the author reinvent Spectrum? He says that computer should be input device first, that’s exactly Spectrum. You plug it into any screen and have your computer.
Sinclair Spectrum, an 8-bit computer from the 1980s by Clive Sinclair. In the United States it was manufactured by Timex.
You may have watched it on Vimeo previously but recently noticed that it was gone from there and sought it out again.
It’s capable of running OpenBMC
Wow, sounds interesting, but I can’t check it now. Is there a video demo?
Did aphex twin just gave an idea, or participated in development somehow?
Thanks for the pointer to “An Artist’s Guide to Programming”, I like Processing and didn’t realise this was coming out :)
#つぶやきProcessing is inspirational
Some IBM 3270 font too, perhaps :)
In case you’re interested in other old fonts, you might like this page.
Sometimes the category list surprises you with an exact entry :)