He had an Alpha-based laptop, too. I didn’t know Tadpole made those. Ran OpenVMS, too, for a little over $10,000. If FOSS’d, that kind of laptop could be useful today for verifiable or non-backdoored computing given Alpha’s with those specs were on a 500nm process. That’s still verifiable without electron microscopes or whatever.
Plus, PALcode was the shit. We need a RISC-V that’s microcoded and/or PALcoded with a HLL compiler for those. One can do many neat things.
Wow. This guy is the Miod Vallat of desktop environments.
My…friend…doesn’t know who Miod Vallat is.
Miod and his machine room.
He had an Alpha-based laptop, too. I didn’t know Tadpole made those. Ran OpenVMS, too, for a little over $10,000. If FOSS’d, that kind of laptop could be useful today for verifiable or non-backdoored computing given Alpha’s with those specs were on a 500nm process. That’s still verifiable without electron microscopes or whatever.
Plus, PALcode was the shit. We need a RISC-V that’s microcoded and/or PALcoded with a HLL compiler for those. One can do many neat things.
Much more ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＡＬ than Windows 95.
OpenBSD and OpenVMS have another thing in common now. One I didn’t expect.
Tried to pinch-zoom the page, but it triggered some awful post navigation throwing me back in time. Why is this even a thing?