asciilifeform: i'd recommend the bong, to better 's-a-incadrat-in-colectiv'
asciilifeform: usg's present direction is the one where the shop keeper is made to answer for various usgistic misfortunes suffered by his staff (e.g., 'obamacare')
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at the risk of strengthening ben_vulpes's drink, must point out, that the disease is not likely to take this particular form
asciilifeform: not aiming to drive ben_vulpes to the bottle, so i'll not elaborate examples. but i think it is clear.
asciilifeform: ~especially~ whatever it is you haven't given up yet.
asciilifeform: this is rather like reading an article 'how to become a nazi' and therein reading that you gotta gas ~yourself~ with zyklon
asciilifeform: 'Avoid causing physical or mental harm other people in the course of your revolutionary activities. Becoming an oppressor yourself will not further the communist cause, and will only land you in jail!' << nice try capons☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i think he meant it as an example of slow box ?
asciilifeform: and apparently there are some bonus gizmos, like a ramdisk device, in there.☟︎
asciilifeform: the principal difference between this and actual sys6 is that a) written in ansi, rather than k&r c b) ab initio, for x86 b) ab initio for multiple processors, which actually simplifies threading & locking
asciilifeform: 3) mighty slow, because the thing actually prods the disk every time you file
asciilifeform: 2) if you have 64-bit qemu because you're an old osdev junkie, qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 2 -m 512 -hda xv6.img -hdb fs.img instead of the makefile's runner.
asciilifeform: 1) you don't have to use the serial console. the thing includes basic text term and kbd handler.
asciilifeform: for anybody else who is considering an evening of playing with xv6, some notes:☟︎
asciilifeform: see also mircea_popescu's article on 'exam takers'
asciilifeform: but it is not a substitute for knowing wtf you're doing
asciilifeform not a principled opponent of testatrons
