Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/03
Chris Rolliston: +Larry Hengen The Kylix IDE was a fork of the Delphi IDE and used WineLib. It was the applications you built with the Kylix IDE that were QT based.
Via [WayBack] I don’t mean to Whine but, if WINE is mature enough, why doesn’t EMBT officially test and support WINE for development on Mac OS/X and Linux for… – Larry Hengen – Google+
There is a bit of C++BuilderX history as well (which was based on JBuilder).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/29
After 3 years silence, JoHo has managed to resurrect the DOS version of FrontDoor and blogs about it at [A] reboot . defsol . com | Waiting for a call or event.
Found out via [WayBack] So, after having been asleep for some 15 years, it appears this is actually happening #frontdoor #fidonet <ht… – Joaquim Homrighausen – Google+
So I had a private chat with JoHo, where he wrote me this:
After three years of “silence”, and some 15+ years since the last code update, JoHo has appeared on the FidoNet scene once again. Having relased FrontDoor in 1986, I guess it’s safe to say he’s been around (FidoNet) longer than most people.
The biggest issue(s) seem to have been finding all the bits and pieces required to make/update FrontDoor, its utilities, as well as the long dead license key/code generator. Another issue is, of course, to find a suitable operating environment to put the pieces together in.
JoHo has stated that what used to be called the “Commercial/MultiLine” version of FrontDoor is what every future of version will be, except not so “Commercial”. You can get a free license by simply sending him an e-mail. Look at https://www.defsol.com for more details.
The “Reboot” project, as JoHo calls it, will have some details released at https://reboot.defsol.com. There is also a Facebook group available for FrontDoor users.
When asked “Why are you doing this now?”, JoHo responds with “Have you ever seen ‘Finnish Swamp Wrestling’ on YouTube? There is no ‘Why’, there is only ‘Because’.”
JoHo can be reached at defsol@defsol.se, seen on Twitter at @joho68. He has also applied for a new FTN-address in Zone 2. Details will follow.
Here are some more links and pictures:
Good old FidoNet logo:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/26
Because history: Index of /pdf/xerox/mouse/lyon_optical images of the Lyon Optical mouse by Xerox.
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018P87005_D_Pointer_Pattern_Pad_Oct84.pdf | 2016-10-12 13:20 | 206K | |
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43260_Lyon_The_Optical_Mouse.pdf | 2016-10-12 13:22 | 11M | |
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Alto_Optical_Case_B.JPG | 2016-10-15 14:55 | 458K | |
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Alto_Optical_Case_T.JPG | 2016-10-15 14:55 | 262K | |
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Alto_Optical_PCB_Cable.JPG | 2016-10-15 14:55 | 451K | |
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Some of the images:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/01
A very interesting piece of research, in which I see a very familiar concept of single owners and I new concept of them providing shields for accessing the manually managed memory. I do miss mentions of Anders Hejlsberg, Chuck (Charles) Jazdzewski, or others that lay the foundation of ownership in the [WayBack] TComponent Branch.
Microsoft Research’s manual memory management for .NET: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/snowflake-extended.pdf
Interesting concept of manual but safe memory management with exactly one owner of an object at any given moment and shields that prevent an object’s destruction while it’s still in use by other threads.
Source: [WayBack] Christopher Wosinski – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/31
Interesting: Index of /pdf/apple/apple_III/firmware
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Titan_3plus2e_PALs.zip | 2017-07-26 16:44 | 9.0K |
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/28
The blog relating the daily life of web agency developers
Source: Anything Goes | CommitStrip
Via: 1998 called, it wants its code back :D
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/17
I love the idea of a 6502 CPU replacement board: more on how to repair 6502 systems.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/07
Explanation: The hydrogen in your body, present in every molecule of water, came from the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in the universe. The carbon in your body was made by nuclear fusion in the interior of stars, as was the oxygen. Much of the iron in your body was made during supernovas of stars that occurred long ago and far away. The gold in your jewelry was likely made from neutron stars during collisions that may have been visible as short-duration gamma-ray bursts. Elements like phosphorus and copper are present in our bodies in only small amounts but are essential to the functioning of all known life. The featured periodic table is color coded to indicate humanity‘s best guess as to the nuclear origin of all known elements. The sites of nuclear creation of some elements, such as copper, are not really well known and are continuing topics of observational and computational research.
Source: APOD: 2016 January 25 – Where Your Elements Came From
Image rendered from File:Nucleosynthesis periodic table.svg – Wikimedia Commons
–jeroen
via: Where Your Elements Came From Image Credit: Cmglee (Own work) CC BY-SA 3.0 or…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/29
David Hill – of ThinkPad design fame – is going beyond “Black Paint”. It means he will be far less involved with [WayBack] ThinkPad: Industrial design, more with other design and – very important – his loved ones.
Today I’m announcing my “rewiring”. I want to broaden my view and create the opportunity to do more in the field of design.
–jeroen
Via Petr Vones.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/27
Interesting read with lots of references: [WayBack] The Cryptowars, twenty years ago – The Isoblog.
My TL;DR:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] So as a society, we are having the same conversation for 20 years now, and we won’t really make progress here because of Zuboff’s law. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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