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@mdhughes I have an old memory of an Indy that just appeared one day like a goddamn monolith in a small computer lab full of Gateway 2000 486DX4/100 desktops and I swear I could hear the chorus wailing when it got quiet in there
@flyingsaceur As I said at the time (& got quoted in an SGI memo, which kinda oops), "an Indy is an Indigo without the go."
IRIX is unhappy with insufficient RAM & GPU power. But it would've blown those PC things away.
I was using the Indigo to do dumb 3D graphics rendering for like ad & station bumpers. Whee, but got me playing with GL.
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@flyingsaceur As I said at the time (& got quoted in an SGI memo, which kinda oops), "an Indy is an Indigo without the go."
IRIX is unhappy with insufficient RAM & GPU power. But it would've blown those PC things away.
I was using the Indigo to do dumb 3D graphics rendering for like ad & station bumpers. Whee, but got me playing with GL.
@mdhughes my first machines were a VIC-20 and a IIgs, I know a thing or two about disappointment
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@flyingsaceur I've had great fun imagining a machine which natively interprets Pushdown Non-deterministic Finite Automata. That is: EBNF. Give me one of those for my exile!
Though I've got no drive to exile myself from civilization, I don't see the point in striking out on my own...
That said, I do like Lua...
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@flyingsaceur Here it's probably going to be a bastardized NetBSD and probably more 9front and Haiku.
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@flyingsaceur As I said at the time (& got quoted in an SGI memo, which kinda oops), "an Indy is an Indigo without the go."
IRIX is unhappy with insufficient RAM & GPU power. But it would've blown those PC things away.
I was using the Indigo to do dumb 3D graphics rendering for like ad & station bumpers. Whee, but got me playing with GL.
@mdhughes @flyingsaceur Now you’re making me want to set up my Indigo2 SOLID again.
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@mdhughes my first machines were a VIC-20 and a IIgs, I know a thing or two about disappointment
@flyingsaceur @mdhughes I loved my IIgs.
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FreeRTOS on an ESP32 at Vermilion Sands.
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@flyingsaceur custom Uxn emulator on an RP2040
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@flyingsaceur voted project oberon but SOAR running an st80/modern squeak in Keash also sounds nice
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@flyingsaceur some kind of FORTH on a Z180, trying to explain to passing business people that this will 100% browse and edit structured data and run reports more securely and reliably than what they're using
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@flyingsaceur voted project oberon but SOAR running an st80/modern squeak in Keash also sounds nice
@flyingsaceur also theres oberon for the PIs but i am yet to debug usb subsystem borkage after the weird two of the weird shutdown it does
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@flyingsaceur Really tough. I want the log cabin, and I can take or leave OpenBSD, but I think I'd want to get away from the PC platform. However, I think you've hit on something with the pairing: a PC is ordinary, everyman, necessarily unpretentious. Not that you can't have a bougie cabin (chalet, anyone?), but that doesn't sound like what's on offer.
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@flyingsaceur @rakslice Wot, no Plan 9?
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@flyingsaceur OpenBSD now, #MercuryMicrokernel someday when it's ready for dogfooding.
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@flyingsaceur @mdhughes I loved my IIgs.
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@flyingsaceur custom Uxn emulator on an RP2040
@jn on a boat?
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@jn on a boat?
@flyingsaceur perhaps! i sailed with my family on some weekends when i was a kid, i would like to do it again
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@flyingsaceur @rakslice Wot, no Plan 9?
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@flyingsaceur Oh if that was feasible: Plan9.
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@flyingsaceur
or maybe Plan 9, on anything that runs it
