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January 31, 2023 (3y ago)
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  1. Ask HN: What are the cases when use of longjmp makes sense and are not excuses
    1 points 1
  2. Ask HN: What was in your opinion the most underrated European computer pre 1990s
    3 points 5
  3. Ask HN: What were the most early Unix type OSes for x86?

    Minix was released in 1987 - if internet is correct it was meant to run on IBM PC. I know that Polish IPIX (not much is known about it tho other than it was written to run on Polish Krak-86 computer…

    4 points 3
  4. The only known surviving unit of ELWRO 600 microcomputer – Photos of boards (polskiekomputery.pl)
    4 points 0
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  6. A tape drive for a Soviet PDP-11 mainframe. Computers of Chernobyl video serie

    English language video about a 30kg-heavy data streamer drive for a Soviet PDP-11 clone mainframe, made in 1985. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7PQIRKF8wI

    1 points 1
  7. Ukrainian couple restroing Soviet computers of Chornobyl zone – English language

    This is a pretty new channel on youtube that started about a year ago. You can see them restoring some Soviet times constructions including based on 286 clones.If you are a retro computing nerd you should be satisfied.…

    5 points 1
  8. Intel 8086 VS Polish communist MERA-400 CPU (evolution of Karpiński K-202 arch)

    Video from channel of an owner and restoration hobbyist from Poland who owns and runs a working (as far as age and quality of socialist era components allows it) unit of that computer. Mera-400 is a descendant of…

    7 points 4
  9. Polish communist era 8 bit computer used in banks, MK-45 (2021) [video] (youtube.com)
    84 points 50
  10. Ask HN: Why C happily allows numeric overflows instead of returning carry bit

    It always been amazing me how simple solution it would be and hardware compliant pretty much on every CPU platform in existence. But for some strange reason carry get totally ignored in language design.

    3 points 5
  11. Ask HN: Is DragonflyBSD capable of actual cluster computing alread or is it WIP?

    Anyone here have any experience with building any clusters with it? What mechanisms are being used to do so? Can you run multithreaded/multiprocess applications on these clusters without need to change applications or…

    6 points 0
  12. Ask HN: What is your oppinion on Plan9 making more (than Unix) stuff files?

    Is something not fitting that model? Are there any costs that are too big in some cases? Is some too much mind boggling than needed?

    4 points 1
  13. Serv00 FreeBSD based free hosting from Poland (serv00.com)
    1 points 1