the next time i see some soydev bragging about writing a shitty hacked up DOS mastodon "client" I will ask them if they can run it on superior japanese engineering
none of your ints are the same, you have no VGA, and the IRQs are mixed up with INTs that have different numbers that you have to look at a table to translate into IRQs. None of your "C sharp or rust to DOS" compilers work either because of this. Good luck.
half the computers I've gotten from Japan have the smell of nicotine. The 9821An I fixed up literally smelled like a nice odor of flooded basement and nicotine until I aired it out.
I still need to replace the rusted out volume switch and pot and I had to hotglue a trace that lifted off the board but it was so much fun to recap.
@PhenomX6@Zerglingman@mint what about the mice? any pointers on which ones i should look for that are gonna have the classic stained plastic look? kinda want to match the keyboard i have atm
@NEETzsche@lina@PhenomX6 I refuse to believe that doesn't exist somewhere, but I have never come across it. Anyway, I have no particular love for terminals. If I came across a GUI that didn't suck I would be happy with that (xfce is most of the way there, and getting further). But lynx is a good browser.
@Zerglingman@lina@PhenomX6 The one thing I don’t like about terminals is that you can’t do multi-tasking with them very well.
For example, in bash, you technically can make it so that you can have multiple commands outputting stdout and stderr to the same stream by appending an ampersand (&) to the end of the command you’re running, and then typing in another one, but:
As you start typing your next command, if the previous one(s) dump something to stdout, the command you had partially typed gets mixed in with the stdout contents of the previous one, and
Most commands in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems weren’t really written with having to share a single terminal with many other commands in mind
I kind of wish there was a terminal out there where stdin was separated from stdout in the way that WeeChat’s TUI is, I would seriously start writing scripts that are intended to give me a sort of “stream of consciousness” experience, where fedi notifications, new RSS posts, etc, get printed on a rolling basis, and I type commands that do things asynchronously.
If any of you know of a terminal it does this I really want to know, because if it exists, I don’t know what it is. And also, if I’m being honest, I don’t want to bother writing it myself.