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OpenLook is nice but it's a bit of a shame it doesn't have its own version of Workbench.

Acorn’s UNIX had the IXI desktop, which was, back then, the absolute pinnacle of user friendly Unix. IIRC, IBM’s AIX for the PS/2 also had it or something very similar.

A base becomes useless pretty quickly if it can't be resupplied, I suspect there is enough hostile AA around it to ensure that.


There is the Heroic Game Launcher that also interfaces with the Epic Games Store.


To me GOG needs a big picture mode like Steam. I want my PC to act like a console and that would help a lot


Why not just add the GOG games to Steam as non Steam games? Isnt that better anyway than having to launch GOG from the Steam BPM just to launch a game from their BPM?

Why would i want to launch a seperate launcher to launch my games?


At least one of the lead developers of Étoilé moved on to CHERI.



Haiku is not related to Étoilé.


It's not technologically feasible unless plastic aka flexible ICs take off.


Why?

It seems to me that if there were as much of a customer base for custom ICs as there is for PCBs, a fabricator like TSMC could easily offer a batch prototyping service on a 28 nm node, where you buy just a small slice of a wafer, provided you keep to some restrictive design and packaging rules.


They already do offer that - it’s called a multi-project wafer or MPW. But it’s prohibitively expensive on a per-chip basis. It’s mostly used for prototyping or concept proving and not for commercial use.

One problem is, you need to create a photolithography mask set for any volume size of fabrication and those aren’t cheap. But that’s far from the _only_ problem with small volume.


Azul Systems was making Java machines a while ago.


When did they add that? When I was trying to learn Japanese 6-7 years ago Duolingo didn’t have anything for either kana or kanji…


I remember reading or hearing somewhere that this was a one-off thing, but I can't remember where.

EDIT: Another comment mentioned Chet Faliszek, he was probably the source.


Juniors usually learn on the job.


Indeed, but once they've done that learning they quickly stop being called "juniors".


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