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I think the point here is that the Disk II controller did _not_ have a microprocessor or microcontroller. Rather, it was driven by software that ran on the system CPU, requiring minimal additional hardware

Saffron 2 months ago

Like a time capsule. Last modified date at the bottom of the page says 2007.

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It reminds me a little of a thing used in clustering of DECs (later HPs) Tru64 Unix.

The clusters had a shared OS image - that is a single, shared root filesystem for all members. To allow node-specific config files, there was a type of symbolic link called a “Context Dependent Symbolic Link” (CDSL). They were just like a normal symlink, but had a `{memb}` component in the target, which was resolved at runtime to the member ID of the current system. These would be used to resolve to a path under `/cluster/members/{memb}`, so each host could have its own version of a config file.

The single shared root filesystem made upgrades and patching of the OS extra fun. There was a multi-phase process where both old and new copies of files were present and hosts were rebooted one at a time, switching from the old to the new OS.

This almost IS the tar format. It’s just a 512 byte header with metadata per file then the file data. Repeat for each file. The cpio format is similar but the header is shorter. Details of the contents of the headers vary, hence the different flavours. And I believe POSIX added extensible extra metadata fields that are saved as a kinda pseudo file

Try and 12 months ago

Except in rapid speech, and particularly at the end of sentences, I can definitely hear “should of” being used by some people in local Australian English.

On mobile so I’m not sure which case OSC52 applies to, but I use mosh+tmux 8-10 hours a day. Both bracketed paste and tmux selection setting local clipboard work fine

Icônes 1 year ago

I can see bathtubs being used in places like real estate sites.

Only if their modem didn’t implement the Hayes command set properly or you could otherwise control the per-character timing of the OS sending. It required a pause (1sec by default), “+++” with no pauses, another pause, _then_ the ATH command