2026-10-17T07:58:53Z https://njump.me FRANK.MCCONNEL https://njump.me/npub16w0ltplj4mlwhg5ee9yhet52nay5qa8tddz7fqtm7rlsq5hxtrrsfxtv0z https://cdn.fosstodon.org/accounts/avatars/109/284/101/667/861/686/original/1ce61c2924563260.png https://cdn.fosstodon.org/accounts/avatars/109/284/101/667/861/686/original/1ce61c2924563260.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqszv4j83cdrgfgywmuvur8du742krck8v6zpm9zk66t5q484yy7edqzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwqk6rml In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9pjv9v929wxy30jhjj5gap9n9ygq0u4kyl8zw3u62yj0y5s25dxcqx6lfc'>nevent1q…6lfc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is this a comment on 26 or 27? 2026-09-17T17:15:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9cls6nk8j64e2dzxfx5emnhd0tqh0gxrjgxyktj9vhltsjn0eg8gzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwky39qt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvlh03d07w5twhhg86t7s7c3vek5txz7fmn2am3l5v85fnvyj7e6smlqwee'>nevent1q…qwee</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The classic-3000 MPE terminal driver is a strange thing and classic-3000 MPE is not very like Unix. Basically, the application has told MPE to read from the terminal (READ or FREAD intrinsics) and the file system has got the I/O system to build a read request and dispatch it to the terminal driver where the terminal driver finds it when responding to received data. If there&#39;s no read request pending when data comes in, the terminal driver mostly discards the data! 2026-08-27T08:00:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0fpp5h62r58lvvpq8masead6uhcvdahae4ufcz8vjgcnc4436jmgzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwum4lns In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8z87mx8e2te5fs6vt83hmruct8qjyxr6gks5gf3mv8swn3t0gd0ctccjd6'>nevent1q…cjd6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Now imagine a terminal driver that echoes BS when you press back space, but then follows it with SP if it finds you are at the first character of the read request. With a sufficiently fancy HP terminal, you cursor up to a previous command that you want to do again (the cursor movements are done locally), then press back space which sends BS SP and erases the command prompt, then press the terminal&#39;s ENTER key (different from RETURN) which retransmits the previous line. 2026-08-27T07:19:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0rg0helxq9a3a4pamkcz0x3yua50ndg0z7m2x5tm6k3h57d7muzgzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwc27ftf some amusement for <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1lq68asmanu3etxax9hvrj8au4h585lq8zgzujmufqsewtsz85mkskknf7e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Lauren Weinstein</span> (<span class="italic">npub1lq6…nf7e</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>Reported &#34;no net, no dial tone&#34; on 20 May. Five truck rolls and twice switching to a different pair later, on the afternoon of 09 Jun we had a decent pair and service was restored. This not too far from deepest darkest Sillycon Valley in Palo Alto CA. Two entities involved, Sonic who provide both DSL and dial tone, and AT&amp;T who provide the pair to Sonic, so maybe not the tariffed telephone service. 1/2 2026-06-16T18:26:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd7prmt40er9ywd9r7rnj4hugtqrzk0uh3k9pkgp25ss4dq8rujhszyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw5ejzc8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszxruxk3x8527c64dsdg2cm2agf09atddslyq57hhsuxl8ptzft4snmv2wq'>nevent1q…v2wq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There have been a couple revisions to the C standard since. My kinda benchmark for this sort of thing is whether the examples use prototype-style function declarations and definitions. If they don&#39;t, the book goes on the bottom shelf unless it&#39;s K&amp;R. (Friends of the Library sale where we&#39;d try to sell a softcover like this for $1, and I see it often.) 2025-05-27T02:31:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszc67ymp3ymtse8ycdn4m80f0yeqgw8etz06dplxy2tmad438786szyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw4tdfwt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswhe5afzwjc9vlthh4retkt25jsp46s6z2nusss5e3teuzj6qnd0s79eces'>nevent1q…eces</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Of course they came with Windows 10 (and I did get to put my foot down and insist on Pro rather than Home) and so we had to use that, apparently it was the Linux that &#34;looked old&#34; (vs the reimplentation of VMS that is Windows NT) 2025-04-19T20:38:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswhe5afzwjc9vlthh4retkt25jsp46s6z2nusss5e3teuzj6qnd0szyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw8swesa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2v7fajz0sx4nlz5fpyd0jnrpqxmttknp4xt5pfn9z8dyg9ucggscskm8ym'>nevent1q…m8ym</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It was...interesting...seeing Debian w/LXDE in use at a friends of the library organization. Systems were set up to auto-login on boot (shared use by a bunch of volunteers), to print to network-attached printer, to have a webulator (IceWeasel/Firefox, later also Chrome) and LibreOffice.<br/>And, well, they got used. But there were a couple folks being vocal about how volunteers want new stuff, and so we got some new all-in-ones with Windows 10. 2025-04-19T20:27:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszkpth992q4dzhd9npjhykr0fmsapmn7rca7j8xwqhtnc6df285aszyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwpa3kc5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstpkvma95j4zskszp6gyxszzpherj94y9k4rfjr0sezylnd03znqspqw0zd'>nevent1q…w0zd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>works from here, most recent post 40m ago 2025-03-02T23:17:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv74tvhlpuh35e090r3hsfdcvyvkmy0a3slc9whxyv4x5gw7wuw4gzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwzu7ewx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8umll7qkplw2hnxn4fg6cwnsy2shmzyva3h8rme2gxc59wrdp4ecwrl74c'>nevent1q…l74c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Given the QVALITY of DOGE IT I suspect mail with spoofed header and SMTP addresses will get through. 2025-02-24T17:36:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsght797drn23uwe9t7hzg4lp9zl92xxc53unhq9fyh2x9echur9hczyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwp3agxm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrns5p9xxpnxy993y9p5fgrsdzqend74kmmktj5kupxljxjy326c96zc55'>nevent1q…zc55</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not only can it run in 20KB of RAM, it can run on a processor with a clock frequency of maybe as much as 2MHz (being lazy and not looking at what could actually be in an MDS800, just remembering what was in an HP2645 terminal ~1976).<br/><br/>If your CP/M came with hardware in the 1980s you might not have got the DRI manuals. It was toward the end of the 1980s when I saw them (with a Morrow Decision I which had its own sort of interesting manuals, for the Z80 card with the MMU). 2025-02-18T19:48:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswsu0ezgpquk92sl58z8cse97tf7t72772gvhsn6khyu59knnwnfqzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwheg2a0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszwj762wq3429luh926huf8juy0k06e5pe7zk4ejldme7z99r8p7sl3ngpl'>nevent1q…ngpl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I hope I helped you get there faster!<br/><br/>I don&#39;t recall a CPM.SYS file. I remember there being a CP/M in system tracks that was the CCP and BDOS and a BIOS, and being kinda mystified about how one would change the BIOS but not really needing to change the BIOS because the hardware vendor had already done that (which is what CP/M was like in its decline, there for you to use). 2025-02-16T01:40:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdcsah9czfrrzc8ehcd9pq0nuk5zfyumeegv0kjfyn2eyrsatcdmgzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw52jedp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvgzznhu625epwldedjwy3cl9rwat7zxc8v08wrtz08u0dx99exwqzl7x4q'>nevent1q…7x4q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I did not but I think if you look at <a href="http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html">http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html</a> you will find a link &#34;CP/M 2.2 ORIGINAL SOURCE&#34; to a cpm2-plm.zip file which includes CPMOVE.ASM which looks like 8080 ASM source for something that might be it<br/><br/>It is AMAZING what has been allowed to escape 2025-02-15T22:30:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxc2qustpfrz6kjd7tt882ewgtqazxakwa5y88740yf9c6dhq4sngzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwmehc68 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdlnj890gke4u9rasfylfc9v0wxmpf2zzfyctk0jj75x7nzm7695qpx8626'>nevent1q…8626</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I actually did live through the late CP/M era, running it on a Z80 card in an Apple ][ so I got a pre-configured diskette in the box with the card and made a copy of that as my everyday booter. It wasn&#39;t &#39;til later that I got to read a CP/M 2.2 Alteration Guide but even that was probably 30 years ago.<br/><br/>I am remembering reading about MOVCPM and thinking it must know where all the absolute references (e.g. JMPs and CALLs) are so it can modify them for the desired system address. 2025-02-15T06:55:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspf8htrde3vxw48xthdkepczkdtt4qywldt7klg9vlrhw7qmh6wxgzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw4gjh72 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ntyu4r5tkf880dndw6cv7m668cjme0fyp5dyh0n6uu3qah9mdnqy4xsk0'>nevent1q…xsk0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>td0 is a Teledisk disk-image file, which is somewhat version-dependent and not what I think of as well-documented (though this could have improved in the last 20-30 years). That&#39;s why I looked at the zip archive.<br/><br/>It has been a while since I thought about how to sysgen a CP/M system. My thinking is that the blob of code that gets loaded from a boot loader must have previously been loaded from stuff in a file or files. Like, um, CPM.SYS. 2025-02-15T05:38:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxpvcuqpllq4anh8mv6lxwpzqh0wnxv7cxr2ny7vh32m0aqsu0zjgzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw6u0msn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyqvdr06ks69y8stxqvjjawv6fza9t6902vdzx6eju6lzata0ks7gvc8q27'>nevent1q…8q27</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>am looking at CPM.SYS from cpm-dist.zip with hexdump -C and at 0x0080 I see &#34;c3 5c 37 c3 58 37&#34; and am thinking those are in the ballpark for a 20K system, the CCP ought to start at 0x3400 2025-02-15T03:24:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyqvdr06ks69y8stxqvjjawv6fza9t6902vdzx6eju6lzata0ks7gzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwk90ca6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxejqq2tffy0hvymzrp8rm5my2vqtmetuxyhskktgatxmrr3sx8lqxtzlvk'>nevent1q…zlvk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>suspect you may be looking for <a href="http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/disks/8inch/index.html">http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/disks/8inch/index.html</a> which has links to cpm-dist.td0 and cpm-dist.zip 2025-02-15T02:16:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyhxnqqqlm3fwxzkzu8vd9lcxu0kw4pj57mx8a9j5snvrysx4m9tqzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwfgrey3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8gmq9cam8pur9v2sr0c3yy0mxcm9zdn4ce6dwdmgc0s49455vgaqpcx9va'>nevent1q…x9va</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Just one. <br/><br/>Do we think he and his bright boys know their way around federal-grade &#34;legacy systems&#34;? 2025-02-04T09:55:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy8rd4hkyjpsd8ff3fh36cggda6svww8m5xqrf5k2f86ls3qfd7tczyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw05j83q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw0k9q9c8jums3x07trwp493yjanhu079xwkxggkjqkgv7x5c4mxgg4vpvu'>nevent1q…vpvu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is the &#34;order&#34; to Apple and Google an &#34;order&#34; or a &#34;suggestion&#34;? I kinda wonder that Microsoft wasn&#39;t included but I guess they haven&#39;t made a phone OS in long enough that any phones they did make the OS for can&#39;t get service at present. 2024-08-31T01:30:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0pjtynsrlptz6prt0ze8hggvwwmwee2efvzwvrhxwzrvlhpcradqzyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwp4r9wd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0q2377shtftgteeg0xk57vdcs8ls2fxxnsxpnwye76svtv6l7vxs58t9mt'>nevent1q…t9mt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>AT&amp;T don&#39;t seem to want to provide me service over anything but copper pair, but only want to run it back to some box that&#39;s supposedly &#34;in my neighborhood&#34; but won&#39;t provide any more than 50Mb/s data service (and want to use some of it for VoIP). I can already see that won&#39;t be enough, although it might work well enough for 911. 2024-06-21T00:23:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0q2377shtftgteeg0xk57vdcs8ls2fxxnsxpnwye76svtv6l7vxszyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw9ys55z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0aymjxsvjlcvprd7w57jzrvuvcnxqcq49pk32nxqrrwq8fuym8vcsafret'>nevent1q…fret</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Srsly, I don&#39;t know how I feel about this situation. I&#39;m one of those weirdos who actually wants, or wanted, a copper pair back to a central office with dial tone, just in case I have to call 911, because I know that land line has an address associated with it and the 911 infrastructure can get that to the first responder. But I also want faster and more reliable data service than I can apparently get over a crumbling 5000-foot copper pair. 2024-06-21T00:16:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2pwvydczx560hdaudawgnc59sv94lwd79qs84s0l5ylhr3clsr2czyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvwxu6uf9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsddavasfywygfwetq2ha3c6x2qwrh7es98jtdkxr0gymmkws8a9pg0lr4y5'>nevent1q…r4y5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Round here I do my radio listening on a radio and it&#39;s usually tuned to something collegiate (KFJC or KZSU, mostly, and sure I could stream these but I&#39;m already swimming in them). I look online and there&#39;s someone with your name but a bit younger and with ladylike imagery. Second best guess is you&#39;re on C**st T* C**st *M. 2024-05-21T18:55:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd3sqlmlgwd06073ky7j5a2nv64qkrmppq60djpukqgele83zzjvczyrfelav872h0a6azn8y5jl9w3205jsr5ad45teyp00c07qzjuevvw0y0efw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz9l4ndvamhtxdkrw6wwkeqph86ddptptge9mj8efzfedflujrd7gkg7k9n'>nevent1q…7k9n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The other day you were asking about sending audio out via Mastodon. Part of my &#34;don&#39;t bother&#34; was that I have tried to figure out when and where these &#34;radio pieces&#34; of yours appear and ran out of patience with the attempt, not least because I have enough to get into my ear holes already. 2024-05-20T23:55:38Z