xyzzy3000 (u/xyzzy3000)

xyzzy3000 commented on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop tinycorelinux.net/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

pastage · 2 months ago

It was GUI defined manually by pixel coordinates, having more flexible guis that could autoscale and other snazy things made things really "slow" back then..

Sure we could go back... Maybe we should. But there are lots of stuff we take for granted to day that were not available back then.

xyzzy3000 · 2 months ago

RISC OS has the concept of "OS units" which don't map directly onto pixels 1:1, and it was possible to fiddle with the ratio on the RiscPC from 1994 onwards, giving reasonably-scaled windows and icons in high-resolution modes such as 1080p.

It's hinted at in this tutorial, but you'd have to go through the Programmer's Reference Manual for the full details: https://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os/wimp-prog/window-theo...

RISC OS 3.5 (1994) was still 2MB in size, supplied on ROM.

xyzzy3000 commented on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop tinycorelinux.net/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

forinti · 2 months ago

The Acorn Archimedes had the whole OS on a 512KB ROM.

That said, OSs came with a lot less stuff then.

xyzzy3000 · 2 months ago

That's only RISC OS 2 though. RISC OS 3 was 2MB, and even 3.7 didn't have everything in ROM as Acorn had introduced the !Boot directory for softloading a large amount of 'stuff' at boot time.

xyzzy3000 commented on Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/wslh

xyzzy3000 · 3 months ago

Is there a copy of this dataset available for download, or held at the Internet Archive?

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adastra22 · 3 months ago

I have never heard of Christopher Alexander (and Quora is unusable). Who is he?

xyzzy3000 · 3 months ago

An influential architect whose ideas form the basis of 'design patterns' in software development.