| ▲ | The scariest boot loader code(miod.online.fr) |
| 72 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 6 comments |
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| ▲ | drob518 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| That takes me back in time. I designed the original EISA logic used in the 720, 730, and 750. Those were great machines back in the day, the fastest available when they launched. |
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| ▲ | B1FF_PSUVM 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Good job. I caused the purchase of a couple of 720s (I believe they were, plus a few X terminals mooching off the workhorses, all with megapixel color displays). They served well past the demise of then-rival Sun machines. I think one of them was still in use with legacy software a few years ago. Fun stuff: there was one year that HP-UX got so aggressive about using free RAM for file cache that, when you tried running another program, things would slow to a crawl because it was paging virtual memory to disk ... | |
| ▲ | mysterydip 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is my favorite part about HN: You have a random story about older tech, and someone who either knew someone involved or was involved themselves is right there to comment on it! | | |
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| ▲ | bluelightning2k 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cool writeup - but not sure why it delivers on "the scariest boot loader code" title |
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| ▲ | actionfromafar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Very "your job is to deliver code you know work". |