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I received an email from a coworker about a retiring professor trying to retrieve data off of old computers. Our central IT was unable to assist due to the age of the machines. The professor was trying to move files from a Mac OS X 10.2, 10.4, and NeXT computer. My heart skipped a beat after that reading that last one. Moving the vintage Mac files would be no problem because I keep those tools handy. I restore vintage Apple //, Macintosh, and other hardware as a hobby.
If you don't know what a NeXT computer is, it's this insanely expensive computer built by Steve Jobs after he was ousted from Apple in the 1980's. It ran Unix, had a gorgeous graphical user interface, and if you use OS X today it is still the foundational basis for the operating system. It was lightyears ahead of anything else out there at the time. Have you ever visited a website before? The first webpage was served on a NeXTcube.
I've never seen a working NeXT computer before though. I saw one in Berlin in a museum and read about them extensively, but I had no idea that our university actually had them.
I immediately went to the professor's office and he showed me what he was trying to do. We talked a little bit about vintage hardware and I told him that I'd never seen a working NeXT before. I was a little hesitant to respond because day-to-day we're flooded with tickets IT support isn't really my thing. Sometimes users, especially tenured professors, need a delicate approach because of their demands. This person could not have been more affable, kind, and good hearted. After talking a while he said he would rather have the hardware saved than go to scrap per university policy.
In the interest of archiving his data and this magnificent hardware I will be cooperating with him to save this NeXT computer. I've also agreed to save the Mac Cube and Power Macintosh G3. Twist my arm. They'll become archive computers if anyone needs a WordPerfect 3.5 file converted. Yes, people still have those.
I decided to document everything in place before moving it all to a secure location. That includes the NeXT computer, original manuals, flyers, software, printers, accessories, and even the original boxes.
The plan is to document EVERYTHING in detail. So stay tuned for future updates.
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'provide developers with open source tools for building cross-platform applications that can run on Linux, UNIX, and other platforms.'
To understand the motivation why just look at the the gnome project which de Icaza started with Friedman. Before gnome there was no acceptable linux opensource gui's hence the drive to build re-build another gui (remember microsoft & apple has/had a better solution) but it is/wasn't free. So mono was started to ...
- to create an opensource version of C#
- there is/was at the time a sun java & opensource java (free) but not a lot of traction with os version
- to look at a better way of building apps on open source systems
- as a means to gain language Independence using universal byte code (not bindings) with clean environment
- allow an easier way to create applications in linux community
- allow developers on linux who want to get the job done using managed environments (not suited to system applications)
- can run different languages using vm (limited) but mature (compared to parrot)
- the core is VM (virtual machine) is called mono, implementation of ECMA standard. Has no language but CIL (low level byte code). So C# is just one compiler that generates to CIL. Mono has VB, Lisp etc. Also has a Java VM. It also has many third party compilers (any language supported by gcc). Then you can mix different languages together. So it's really language independent and whatever works for you.
- fun to do more challenging things, learning about webapps to windows forms, to opengl ... "open ended university" and not get stuck in one style of programming - pcs & one single operating system
- gives Windows developers just another set of platform(s) to run (not develop) their applications
You can listen to a detailed explanation of the 'why', 'how', here. [0]
Reference
[0] ITConversations, "Miguel de Icaza, Technometria: The Mono Project, (mp3 1hr, 30Mb)"
www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1771.html
[Accessed Sunday 10 June 2007]
Vim, l'editor "modale" di testo semplice più amato dai programmatori, o almeno da me che non lo sono, domani compie 24 anni.
Intanto, parentesi obbligatoria: modale vuol dire che, quando Vim è aperto (è un programma per il terminale, eh!) esso interpreta ogni tasto della tastiera come un comando, e non come una lettera. "x" cancellerà la lettera corrente; "rU" la sostituirà con "U"; "Ociao" aggiungerà una riga sopra quella corrente, con scritto "ciao"; "Afine" scriverà "fine" a fine riga. Se voglio scrivere un blocco di testo, come farei con un normale Blocco Note, premo "i" ed entro nella modalità di "inserimento"; poi con torno alla ...normalità!
Ogni lettera della tastiera fa qualcosa: naviga, cerca, sostituisce, copia, incolla. E una sequenza di operazioni è, in sostanza, una sequenza di lettere, che posso copiare ed eseguire su un altro file!
Tempo fa ho trovato un bel racconto della sua storia. Vim è stato pubblicato nel 91, ma molti suoi pezzi vengono dagli anni 60, si chiamavano QED, ed, ex e vi, e funzionavano su computer che non avevano uno schermo: le telescriventi.
Ovviamente, se non hai uno schermo, modificare un file di testo può essere un'operazione molto complicata! Ad esempio: nella memoria del tuo computer c'è la Divina Commedia, ma un'edizione sbagliata che dice "Non ti curar di lor, ma guarda e passa" invece di "Non ragioniam di lor...". Tu vuoi correggerlo, ma sei nel 1971 e il tuo computer è una grossa macchina con collegate una tastiera e una stampante, che stampa linea dopo linea. Allora non è che puoi cercare sullo schermo il pezzo e correggerlo, né puoi stampare tutta la Commedia e cercare il punto sulla carta. Allora apri il tuo editor, "ed", e scrivi ":g/[Nn]on ti curar di/p", cioè "cerca tutte le righe con quella frase, che inizia o con la N maiuscola o con la n minuscola, e stampale". Così scopri che la frase compare solo una volta al rigo 877. Allora puoi modificarlo usando ... (ok, non farò qui un tutorial di ed).
Dunque un metodo complesso, almeno fin quando non ci prendi la mano. Ma tutto sommato brillante, potente, economico. E chi usa Vim oggi, anche se ha lo schermo e vede davanti a sé il testo su cui sta operando, usa ancora queste operazioni "testuali", e lo fa per scelta: forse vuol dire che continuano ad essere il modo più comodo per chi usa almeno certi tipi di testi, come codici o dati.
La storia è molto bella e si trova qui goo.gl/lSqjCt (è un estratto da una chat su IRC). Credo che, agli utenti Unix/POSIX di oggi, piacerà vedere quando, dove, in che ordine e su che tipi di computer sono nati qed, ed, sed, grep e tutta la compagnia, o forse sono solo io ad essere esageratamente romantico su queste cose :)
In definitiva quello che volevo dire è: buon compleanno Vim!
P.S. sempre a proposito di feticismo Unix: goo.gl/QYhQg8 screenshot dai computer degli sviluppatori di C, AWK, Vim, PHP, nel 2002. Stallman non pervenuto: «I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode»
:wq
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NEXTSTEP 3.3 running on a NeXTstation Color Turbo. NEXTSTEP was a UNIX-based operating system that evolved into OPENSTEP. After NeXT was acquired by Apple, it became the basis of Apple's OS X operating system.
Container for sale at Uwajimaya; phone photo, so not as clear as it could be.
"STORE & WARE
Unique ideas and techniques made impossible things possible"!
It's like a Tupperware dish, only IIRC, the bowl is glass. Very nice, actually.
Hello BoingBoing readers!
Clockwise, beginning on the left: MUNIAC (new design of a retro computer based on vacuum tubes), heat exchanger of Cray T3D and Cray C94. Center: the pretty huge NEC SX-5 w/ 3 NEC vector CPUs. Front: NEC SX-4 w/ 2 NEC vector CPUs.
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OiOS Desktop
Imagine a UNIX based Enterprise Operating System, a scalable universally collaborative stable business platform capable of running on x86 Systems. Delivering support for Cloud enterprise features, ZFS file systems, Virtualisation, Advanced Security, and Compatibility. Enabling you to build new possibilities, enter new markets and harness human relationships in Open Source across the world. Whether you are a Systems Administrator, Recreational User or Information Technology Professional, OiOS supports the new economics of highly creative, diversified ways of doing business, and building networks.
OiOS Server
Imagine a UNIX based Enterprise Operating System, a scalable universally collaborative stable business platform capable of running on x86 Systems. Delivering support for Cloud enterprise features, ZFS file systems, Virtualisation, Advanced Security, and Compatibility. Enabling you to build new possibilities, enter new markets and harness human relationships in Open Source across the world. Whether you are a Systems Administrator, Business, or Information Technology Professional, OiOS supports the new economics of highly creative, diversified ways of doing business, and building networks.
OiOS Increased migration by world exchanges financial exchanges to Unix and Linux opens development to stock trading platform giving more opportunities to run software on more stable Unix platforms
Free open source enterprise systems available on live DVD or USB stick
Professionals Join in @
- Openindiana.org
- #openindiana on irc.freenode.net
OiOS Desktop
Imagine a UNIX based Enterprise Operating System, a scalable universally collaborative stable business platform capable of running on x86 Systems. Delivering support for Cloud enterprise features, ZFS file systems, Virtualisation, Advanced Security, and Compatibility. Enabling you to build new possibilities, enter new markets and harness human relationships in Open Source across the world. Whether you are a Systems Administrator, Recreational User or Information Technology Professional, OiOS supports the new economics of highly creative, diversified ways of doing business, and building networks.
OiOS Server
Imagine a UNIX based Enterprise Operating System, a scalable universally collaborative stable business platform capable of running on or x86 Systems. Delivering support for Cloud enterprise features, ZFS file systems, Virtualisation, Advanced Security, and Compatibility. Enabling you to build new possibilities, enter new markets and harness human relationships in Open Source across the world. Whether you are a Systems Administrator, Business, or Information Technology Professional, OiOS supports the new economics of highly creative, diversified ways of doing business, and building networks.
OiOS 151a8 Increased migration by world exchanges financial exchanges to Unix and Linux opens development to stock trading platform giving more opportunities to run software on more stable Unix platforms.(Sparc see separate project)
Free open source enterprise systems available on live DVD or USB stick
Professionals Join in @
- Openindiana.org
- #openindiana on irc.freenode.net
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Jurassic Park Unix System poster inspired by Atari video game box art. For Sale - www.redbubble.com/people/zombieflask/works/11633632-unix-...
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