Connor,
> The similarities between DM and Rio are actually startling; I wouldn't
> be at all surprised if Rob Pike had previously seen Apollo...
Very likely. The Apollo founders all had strong academic and research
backgrounds. Those communities were quite tight and interacted very
regularly.
> I have no idea how I've never heard of this,
The adage is that the victors get to write history. Apollo was a
single company peddling a proprietary technology. At the time that it
started Unix was offered only to academic institutions. There was no
way to foresee that the consent decree const
While following the st and editor threads I felt prompted to put down
these reminiscences. My hope is that they will stimulate the
discussion.
/john
INTRODUCTION
Many years ago I worked at Apollo Computer.[APOLLO] This was before
X, NFS, Sun workstations or Apple Macintoshes; when Unix typica
Particularly small fixed size fonts lack legible bold variants. In
such cases brightening is a very adequate substitute.
/john
> Me too, FWIW.
Me three.
/john
oated non-modular Bash
>> :) But that's a matter of opinion.
>
> If that's your only metric, you should pay a calligrapher to write it
> out on a nice piece of parchment so you can frame it for easy reading.
>
>
> --
> # Kurt H Maier
>
>
--
John Yates
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David,
You are correct on many counts. Our divergent domains of development
definitely colors our biases. I work with high end out of order
processors.
The Intel Core i7 has a multiply latency of 3 cycles and can issue a
new multiply into the pipeline every cycle. It has a worst case
integer d
Here are two useful references:
http://bretm.home.comcast.net/hash/
http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/
RE computation cost: Generalized integer multiplication and integer
division both used to be expensive. On modern processors a
multiplication is fully pipelined and comparable to an L1 data
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:52 AM, John A. Grahor wrote:
> I'd like a terminal emulator that has a "dumb" terminal mode, i.e. where
> line editing can happen locally and what one types is only sent to the tty
> when one hits return (or some other key).
Two decades ago I fell in love with Apollo Com
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Mate Nagy wrote:
> attached is a variation on John Yates' dmenu xft patch that actually
> works (fixed segfault on exit, plus you can actually choose fonts other
> than the default).
Thanks Mate.
/john
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