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Fun, did that 8 years ago with the original Hololens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cBX4t2kX0


Sounds like an llm task.


How about rendering with print specific CSS to images/pdf ?


Images is easy. Although we'd need to support the print-specific CSS in layout. PDF is more complex but definitely doable. It wasn't part of our initial plans but is rapidly making it's way up the priority list due to popular demand (and we are of course an open source project, so we'd be very open to people contributing PDF rendering support).


What warez dump?


I'm also interested in learning about it. I've only found this thread on Twitter: https://x.com/virtuallyfun/status/1804913568820699549

Apparently there are all kinds of goodies in that dump, like previously unknown betas of MS-DOS and OS/2, but there are no links to the dump itself. It's a shame that the community is so secretive about this :(


Someone got access to the full tape backups for two warez BBSes (The WaREZ HouZE and Piper's Pit) and uploaded the tape images to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ibm-wgam-wbiz-collection. The collection spans the late 1980s to the late 1990s.


A list of files (tab-separated) in each of the dumps is avilable in a separate download: https://archive.org/details/ibm-lists-details

These are _very large_, multi-MB zip files, indexing I think north of at least 100GB worth of files.


PS – I don't think it's been posted yet to HN; you should do the honors...


Came here to say the same, kinda misleading :)


Been using it for a while, like it :)



Pointless with a 16:9 ratio display :(


I program in Pascal every day, and I still love it.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has a built-in development environment with a language called AL. AL is a variant of Pascal.

A bit of background, Pascal was very popular in Denmark in the 80'ties and 90'ties (Turbo Pascal was created by a Dane, Anders Hejlsberg, later Delphi, c# and TypeScript fame). Business Central was a Danish piece of software created for IBM before Microsoft acquired it, so choosing Pascal as the base language was a very natural thing.

I got my first job because IBM needed Pascal developers for this new accounting system they got and I already knew Turbo Pascal.

Today the AL compiler is built on Roslyn (same as the c# compiler) and have a fully capable language server supporting all the fancy intellisence stuff in VS Code, also supported by GitHub CoPilot.

p.s. I even created my own AL compiler, written in AL https://www.hougaard.com/toolbox


Lo and Hi tom samples seem to be switched?


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