jadero

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Me too, on the VIC-20.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

It just had to turn it upside down!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think something like the Commodore PET might qualify. Back in the day, I saw it used for everything from cash registers to accountants' workstations, but rarely for anything else.

I think that the original IBM PC was conceived and marketed as a business machine and only grew beyond that because of Microsoft's deep commitment to it as a platform and IBM's uncharacteristicly open specifications and design.

If not for that combination, the PC might never have left the office and most of us would have stuck with the companies who were actually breaking new ground, Apple and Commodore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That doesn't surprise me. I have Haiku running in a VM, but haven't looked at it in 2 years, despite the fact I used BeOS as a daily driver back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, if you want "compile something unstable yourself," here is their official documentation for ARM64.

And here is someone's progress report on porting to RISC-V. They seem to have started in 2021, so maybe they were successful.

 

Economics is not just the "dismal science". In some cases it's completely unhinged.

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A set of environmental crisis posters dating back to the 1960s, introduced with a quote from the 1970 State of the Union address given by US president Richard Nixon:

“The great question of the 1970s is shall we surrender to our surroundings or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land and to our water?”

In my opinion, all of the issues portrayed are still issues and what progress has been made is tiny in relation to the problem and more than offset by further deterioration overall.

(Edit: note that some browsers (DDG and Brave on Android) refuse to load the site, citing some kind of global block list.)