Neat. Found an issue in chapter 3, first sentence says electronic computers were during WWII, but they were electro-mechanical… they used relays. Vac tubes came later, ENIAC was finished after the war finished, for example.
Ah, that's a shame! I was about to look for the RSS feed too - especially since the cross-over of people who'd be into this comic series and rss/atom is probably pretty large.
He regularly attends BSD conferences like BSDCan and EuroBSD.
He's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Its always nice when you meet your heroes and they are amazing people.
If you're a McKusick fan, there's a series of recordings from his classroom lectures about operating systems. I saw some on VHS ages ago in a group setting. They were quite amusing from what I recall, for such an otherwise dry subject.
>The peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, S = 2^(Year-1984), in which S is the peak computer speed attained during each year, expressed in MIPS. -Wikipedia, Joy’s law (computing)
>“C++++-= is the new language that is a little more than C++ and a lot less.” -Bill Joy
>In this talk from 1991, Bill Joy predicts a new hypothetical language that he calls “C++++-=”, which adds some things to C++, and takes away some other things.
>“Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.” -James Gosling
I also saw Bill Joy's much earlier talk at the 1986 Sun Users Group in Washington DC, where he announced a hypothetical language he wanted to build called "C++++-=", and that he talked about in subsequent presentations.
I think that was the same talk when Bill said "You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar". More Bill Joy quotes:
At Educom in October 1988, I was running rotating demos of NeWS, pie menus, Emacs and HyperTIES on a Sun workstation at the Sun booth, for whoever walked by...
It's cute, but why is it a comic? The comic adds nothing to the narrative. It's a tweet-length text history with illustrations, not a comic in the sense of comic strip as medium.
The website is fosscomics.com, they're all comics? They're comics because the author(s) wanted to create comics, not sure how this would be hard to grasp.
Most documentaries could be blog posts people can read in 10-15 minutes, yet the medium persists. A mystery? Probably not.
A lot of people in fediverse would enjoy these. Consider creating an account on techub.social or any of the other tech/foss oriented mastodon instances.
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https://github.com/joone/fossbook/pull/8
* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sbin/restore?id=2cefae4c...
https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill...
>The peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, S = 2^(Year-1984), in which S is the peak computer speed attained during each year, expressed in MIPS. -Wikipedia, Joy’s law (computing)
>“C++++-= is the new language that is a little more than C++ and a lot less.” -Bill Joy
>In this talk from 1991, Bill Joy predicts a new hypothetical language that he calls “C++++-=”, which adds some things to C++, and takes away some other things.
>“Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.” -James Gosling
I also saw Bill Joy's much earlier talk at the 1986 Sun Users Group in Washington DC, where he announced a hypothetical language he wanted to build called "C++++-=", and that he talked about in subsequent presentations.
I think that was the same talk when Bill said "You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FORTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar". More Bill Joy quotes:
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/slowlari...
At Educom in October 1988, I was running rotating demos of NeWS, pie menus, Emacs and HyperTIES on a Sun workstation at the Sun booth, for whoever walked by...
https://hyperties.org/databases/playground/sun-founders-big-...
Most documentaries could be blog posts people can read in 10-15 minutes, yet the medium persists. A mystery? Probably not.
You do not want visual mode on a Tek 4014¹. It's a storage tube and can't modify text on screen.
Should have drawn an ADM-3A².
¹ https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/4014
² https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/File:Lear_Siegler_...