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Cannot escape from ghost town (lemm.ee)
 

Help! I woke up this morning in an ethereal duplicate of my own bed, which was superimposed onto my real bed. Ever since I got up, the ethereal bed (and an entire ethereal copy of my house) has been following me. It lags behind sometimes, like when I first woke up, and I was able to confirm that it was in fact a complete ghostly replica of my home town that was chasing me, not just my house. I think the soul of my town may have died.

Does anyone have any experience with ghost towns? Can they be laid to rest, or are we doomed forever to keep posting on r/fifthworldproblems?

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Name a more iconic duo. (lemm.ee)
The Mistral AI bot here on Lemmy now remembers context in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

@[email protected] Yes. Both of my hands are raised in the "thumbs up" gesture.

The Mistral AI bot here on Lemmy now remembers context in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

@[email protected] How many fingers am I holding up? Let's think step by step.

The Mistral AI bot here on Lemmy now remembers context in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Actually, this is a common misconception. The airspeed velocity of unladen swallows is discussed in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," which was produced some time after the Dead Parrot Sketch. The two productions share no overlap in subject matter; the common subject of birds is a coincidence.

Money has changed microsoft in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Right; Mica wasn't VMS as far as I know, but rather a generic kernel that would have hosted VMS as a client API, a little like how NT hosts Win32 and POSIX (and not OS/2), or how IBM's Workplace OS was going to host OS/2, AIX, and Mac OS as "personalities." It's not likely that any VMS-specific code would have been salvaged from Mica for use in NT, but rather the nucleus of a portable API-agnostic kernel, in which case any architectural resemblance to VMS has more to do with Cutler's sensibilities and less to do with code re-use.

The Mistral AI bot here on Lemmy now remembers context in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

@[email protected] What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Money has changed microsoft in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I realize you're trying to be funny, but just in case you don't know the actual history:

The Windows NT kernel was architected by Dave Cutler, who had previously designed the VMS and RSX-11M kernels. (RSX-11 is actually a family of PDP-11 operating systems; the "M" stood for "multitasking.") No code was ever shared between the three.

The Unix implementation team started out on a PDP-7, which was a much smaller computer than a PDP-11. Its first code was cross-compiled from a GE 635 mainframe left over at AT&T from the Multics project, which (if it ran anything) would have only had GECOS available. They did eventually graduate to a PDP-11/45, but to do this they used their PDP-7 system to cross-compile. Unix was ported to the PDP-11 in 1970, two years before the first RSX-11 release from DEC (which wasn't even Cutler's RSX-11M; that was 1974).

The appropriate precursor to Linux would be Minix, a much later Unix-like system, which Torvalds was trying to clone. At the time, Microsoft did have its hands in the x86 'nix pie, however; Xenix was popular in business.