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This is a dual Pentium Pro running NetBSD.
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Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

[?]ltning » 🌐
@ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

Flying for the first time in 30 years. Going to visit the #BSDNL conference tomorrow!

(It was transported as hand luggage, in case anyone wondered ;)
#RetroComputing #BSD #RunBSD #DOS

A Toshiba luggable computer from 1993 on a baggage loader at the Schiphol airport. In the background a KLM plane which we just disembarked from.

Alt...A Toshiba luggable computer from 1993 on a baggage loader at the Schiphol airport. In the background a KLM plane which we just disembarked from.

    Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

    [?]ltning » 🌐
    @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

    On my way to #Foss-North in Gothenburg, Sweden. I'll be giving a talk about being old and nostalgic and protecting a BBS running on a 386 from the Wild West that is the Internet.

    The talk will be given using the 486 PC in the pictures.

    #Retrocomputing #DOS #FOSS #fossnorth2026 #fossnorth

    A Toshiba T6600C running Norton Commander copying some files. The machine is about 12cm thick, has a small but beautiful colour LCD and a keyboard with numpad. A network cable is connected to an ISA card installed in the rear of the machine.

    Alt...A Toshiba T6600C running Norton Commander copying some files. The machine is about 12cm thick, has a small but beautiful colour LCD and a keyboard with numpad. A network cable is connected to an ISA card installed in the rear of the machine.

    Side view of the luggable. Network card and sound card visible in the ISA card bay. A small display in a black 5.25" bezel reveals the presence of a McCake - a raspberry pi-based MT32-emulator plugged into the sound card's WaveBlaster connector. The display reads "Hack the Planet!"

    Alt...Side view of the luggable. Network card and sound card visible in the ISA card bay. A small display in a black 5.25" bezel reveals the presence of a McCake - a raspberry pi-based MT32-emulator plugged into the sound card's WaveBlaster connector. The display reads "Hack the Planet!"

    A view from the train window, a fairly barren (for now) field with blue skies and some cool clouds. Taken north of Sarpsborg.

    Alt...A view from the train window, a fairly barren (for now) field with blue skies and some cool clouds. Taken north of Sarpsborg.

      [?]mbbrutman » 🌐
      @mbbrutman@mastodon.sdf.org

      mTCP NetDrive users ... I have new test code available that really makes things fly, especially on remote connections.

      My 386-40 saw speedups of 1.4x to 2.7x when talking to a server on the same network, and 12x to 21x when talking to a remote server.

      Help me test it ... more details at: groups.google.com/g/mtcp/c/wRv

        [?]ltning » 🌐
        @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

        @montyontherun Every month is #DOS month to me.

          [?]ARGVMI~1.PIF » 🌐
          @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

          TIL that the didn't come with just . It had *four* operating systems available from the start.

          I imagine that's why it was designed to boot from disk, and not a fixed ROM operating system like the .

          The four original IBM PC operating systems were:

          *
          * UCSD p-System, an OS built around a interpreter for
          * CP/M-86, an x86 version of
          * PC , a knock-off of CP/M from a little-known company called

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            [?]Ltning » 🌐
            @ltning@weirdr.net

            player UI shootout! An AMD Am5x86 at 120MHz with a Gravis Ultrasound PnP playing back a VBR (~254Kbps) 44.1KHz MP3 file at full quality.

            The contenders: QuickView Pro version (dvpro), Digital Sound System 3.1 (dss) and MPXPlay 1.67 (mpx). The file: Astral Projection's "Bizarre Contact" from the album "Ten".

            Enjoy these clips :D


            Alt...QuickView Pro: file listing in the background and a simple status dialog in the foreground showing file information and the playback time.

            Alt...MPXPlay: File/directory browser below (mostly removed from the video), spectrum analyzer and various playback information on top.

            Alt...DSS: VU meters for left/right and playback information along with a lot of information about the file and the sound device.

            Alt...DSS: Spectrum analyzer, plus technical information as in the other video.

              ltning boosted

              [?]mbbrutman » 🌐
              @mbbrutman@mastodon.sdf.org

              The latest mTCP for DOS is available!

              This version includes some changes to improve TCP reliability on long running (but idle) connections, black & white Sixel graphics in Telnet, a Telnet emulation bug fix, and other small fixes sprinkled around.

              The source code to NetDrive (network attached storage) is also published now - enjoy reading an unholy mix of x86 assembly code talking to Golang over UDP!

              Spread the word! Friends don't let friends run old code ...

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