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Re: Reminder! Meeting this week on Sept 9th!

by Joel

This month I am up for virtual. Could easily be in minority and that's not a problem. Joel On September 7, 2021 4:50:24 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > Hey Gang, > > We've got a meeting this week on Sept. 9th! > > Do people want to do in a meeting in person or virtual? > > Thanks, > Tim. > > -- > > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/JLWAV…

Sept. 8, 2021

Reminder! Meeting this week on Sept 9th!

by Tim Keller

Hey Gang, We've got a meeting this week on Sept. 9th! Do people want to do in a meeting in person or virtual? Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Sept. 7, 2021

Inertia Blast

by Dennis Payne

Thrust is an old C64 game. I never played the original but enjoyed an svgalib version a long time ago. Svgalib was used for games when people didn't have machines that could reasonably run X. It requires root to run and can't run under X so it isn't something people do now for the most part. The version I played now has an X version but it requires pseudo color so it is not usable. I updated the code to use SDL. I replaced some images that seemed to have been copied from the original. I renamed the game to Inertia Blast. Of course this included adding Gamerzilla support but it is minimal at the moment with only two achievements. http://identicalsoftware.com/inertiablast/ -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@dulsi

Sept. 5, 2021

Re: Happy 30th birthday linux!!

by Jared Greenwald

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:46 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > > Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about > Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing." > > Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the > years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, > SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an > emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. > Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), > Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the > years. > > With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my > work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the > longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much > killed it off now. We tried to keep sparc alive a little longer at least by releasing Oracle Linux on sparc as recently as 2017. Now that arm is the new hotness that's where the "alt" releases are. > > > Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast > Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a > Tim> success! > > Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin* > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/GC4JK… >

Aug. 27, 2021

Re: Happy 30th birthday linux!!

by Doug Mildram

Encore (Marlboro MA, pioneer of parallel cpus) was amazing (or amazingly foolish) because....roughly 100 employees cranked out this product/HW with not just ONE os: They had 3 flavors, all running on the same large (VAX-sized) Multimax hardware with heavy SCSI disks each a few hundred MB. OS #1: BSD OS #2: sysV OS #3: UMAX, a mach hybrid if that helps I got hired into a 3 person sysadmin team, 2 weeks later I learned my lead cohort was moving to FL leaving me as the new top puppy. But I was surrounded by UNIX literate developers, thrilled to learn from them! But mostly only colleges bought these systems, so the downsizing started soon after. -doug On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 3:48 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > > Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about > Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing." > > John> Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the > John> years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, > John> SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an > John> emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. > John> Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), > John> Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the > John> years. > > Heh, I forgot Umax, from Encore Computing. 16xNS32000 CPUs, 64Mb of RAM, > $250k wheeled in, $25k when we wheeled it out three years later. > > John> With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my > John> work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted > the > John> longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much > John> killed it off now. > > Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast > Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a > Tim> success! > > John> Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin* > John> _______________________________________________ > John> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > John> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > John> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > John> Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > John> Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/GC4JK… > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/7QRWO… >

Aug. 27, 2021

Re: Happy 30th birthday linux!!

by Mike Peckar

> John> SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an > This brought back memories of my first job at DEC in 1987 and writing routines in PCL on a TOP-20 machine. I do DECLARE. :-) Fun to hear it lives on in emulation.

Aug. 27, 2021

Re: Happy 30th birthday linux!!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "John" == John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing." John> Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the John> years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, John> SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an John> emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. John> Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), John> Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the John> years. Heh, I forgot Umax, from Encore Computing. 16xNS32000 CPUs, 64Mb of RAM, $250k wheeled in, $25k when we wheeled it out three years later. John> With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my John> work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the John> longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much John> killed it off now. Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a Tim> success! John> Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin* John> _______________________________________________ John> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org John> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org John> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ John> Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ John> Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/GC4JK…

Aug. 26, 2021

Re: Happy 30th birthday linux!!

by John Stoffel

Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing." Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the years. With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much killed it off now. Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a Tim> success! Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin*

Aug. 26, 2021

Re: Happy 30th birthday linux!!

by Michael Voorhis

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/-PWutfOCMUI On 8/25/21 7:19 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about his > os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing."

Aug. 26, 2021

Happy 30th birthday linux!!

by Tim Keller

It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing." This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a success! Stay safe and I hope to see you at the next meeting! Later, Tim.

Aug. 25, 2021