asciilifeform: extra lulz at the tail end of the page.
asciilifeform: 'Aboriginal Linux is a shell script that builds the smallest/simplest linux system capable of rebuilding itself from source code. This currently requires seven packages ...'
asciilifeform: phf: even as late as late '90s, machines with such 'feel' were made.☟︎
asciilifeform: and yes phf that last batch of sinners includes asciilifeform , just that he is not buying vaxen etc.
asciilifeform: so now i have the dough to get whatever machines, and it no longer appeals.
asciilifeform: when i was a sad student and pinched pennies to buy lispm parts, then much later the machine, i did not yet realize that turning the physical object into an emulator would take 20 yrs that i dun have.
asciilifeform: 'Of course the first thing you have to understand is who is your customer. And to answer that you need to know just who is buying VAXen these days. The list it turns out is really short....'
asciilifeform: 'Estimating Worth - "How $VALUABLE$ is my VAX?"'
asciilifeform: 'Linux Kernel panics when using an OHCI controller if a USB device reports being a generic HID keyboard and reports a wMaxPacketSize of over 4095. The OHCI controller driver fails to reserve bandwidth for the device, causing the keyboard handler to fail when attaching to the HID. Later, when the device is removed, the system crashes due to a null pointer dereference in a linked list of endpoint descriptors.'
