Former broadcast engineer and retired Internet engineer. Musician (Keys). I enjoy vintage computers, and I am a caretaker of two wonderful Amazon parrots..
Florida
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Ben Adams retweeted
Let’s wish Zulu a happy hatchday. To wish Zulu a happy hatchday or if you’d like a hatchday shoutout for your feathered friend comment below.
#hatchday
Ringneck Parrot Living With Pigeons For Food
youtu.be/CVJMe9aLtZY
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Ben Adams retweeted
I built a hardware multiplication accelerator for the 8086.
It’s an ISA card built around a TRW MPY12HJ parallel multiplier from the 1980s that offloads MUL instructions from the CPU.
It actually makes integer multiplication about 2.5× faster on early x86 systems.
#retrocomputing #electronics #vintagecomputing
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18 minute video
The Crow Who Refused to Say Goodbye… Even After His Owner Was Gone
youtu.be/PAyxqGMtBwM
Ben Adams retweeted
You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF.
Someone embedded a RISC-V emulator inside a standard document. You don't need a virtual machine, just a PDF reader.
→ Runs interactively inside the file.
→ Powered by a tiny RISC-V emulator.
→ The entire OS fits in just 6MB.
