I remember the BSD daemonette. I guess I don't mind having my balls grabbed as much as you do Bruce.

Ginger beer.

Go through old books and papers - stuff going back to the victorian era is well represented.

Find the animal/plant that interests you and cut out the photos and grab test and curate them properly into the web.

That stuff could very easily go away. A lot of it already has.

I wouldn't pay much attention to copyright either. There's no point in protection of information that goes extinct.

I'm probably a good person to ask that question of, it's on my thinkpad despite my starting with Unix in 1977; in my entire professional career as a program I had only one Windows gig the rest was Unix or embedded assembly. I really do c/unix stuff, for work and fun. So why then do I still use XP?

Cause it works finally.

If it were as bad as it were 10 years ago, I'd be using Unix on my laptop, but xp has stopped pissing me off with stupid shit and does the very little I ask of it reasonably well, although my expectations of it are so low I'd be equally happy with a BIOS that boots to a web browser.

It does need daily reboots and sometimes goes for weeks on end without a need for a reboot and (touch wood) doesn't seem to crash any more.

So, under the "don't fix what aint broken" maxim, I'll leave xp on this machine. Would I "upgrade"? Not a chance in hell. If I used anything else I'd put BSD on it instead.

What's he doing keeping stuff in MS apps for? Then when they don't work 5 years later he's all like OMG THE NET WILL BREAK.

Idiot. He knows better. Or should.

I used to laugh at Americans making fun of Canadians saying "aboot" too. Then I moved to California and in a few weeks I heard "aboot" whenever anybody said and and I was indeed saying it. When you're used to it you can't tell...

This is a joke, right?

That would have been an 8088, not 8086, yes? The latter were comparatively rare, PC's used the former.

"Maybe someday I'll find a Socket 4 in a dumpster "

Good place for them. They were vile.

Plus, don't forget about that little math bug in early Pentia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

You find a compiler binary or cross-compile it on another system.

A compiler written in FORTRAN? Really? Which one?

11/03 isn't old. 11/20 is old.

technically an 11/03 wasn't a PDP-11, it was an LSI-11.

The 11/34 was the first one that was really useful, EIS/FIS was built in so you had a divide instruction finally. But by then the console switches were gone, no more toggling in the boot loader for you.

Wow does that look weird. By the early 80s Z80 syntax was much more common. LXI. Ewwww.

http://nemesis.lonestar.org/computers/tandy/software/apps/m4/qd/opcodes.html

Rightfully so. That thing was a pig.

DIBOL?