nineteen999

I use an SDwire device - connect the USB end to your build host, and the SD card end to the DUT.

Pfft. You just need more robot arms to hose down the ones that are catching fire.

Definitely helped my RSI as well. Another anecdotal point.

Getting a job in a mom-and-pop ISP back in 1999. Our uplinks were so constrained that with 40 dial-in lines, we needed to run our own bandwidth-throttled NNTP cache to prevent one or two customers relentlessly trawling Usenet making life horrible for the others. Fun times.

toast0's answer below is the correct one. Plus in Australia, gaming/gambling is heavily regulated - my state government didn't even allow poker machines until 1991.

So we never started with a network of disconnected poker machines, the whole thing was built from the ground up with a centralised jackpot system. I don't know what hardware the original jackpot platform ran on but I know it used hardware RNG units. By the time I started there ~2003 it had been migrated to Stratus.

We were lucky on our site, our team leader was a Stratus guru, and was a great teacher, so we had plenty of time on there if we wanted to practice. We were lucky enough to do just about everything in midrange - Solaris, OpenVMS, Stratus and a bit of Linux here and there in the latter days.

And some ancient lottery processing machines the size of fridges that ran some ancient V7 UNIX variant.

We use to run Stratus VOS on Continuum series hardware at a lottery/poker machine company I worked at in the mid 2000's. It handled the jackpot system which decided which of 13,500 poker machines in our state would jackpot at any given time.

A reliable beast - never failed once in the entire time I worked there. Based on PA-RISC if I recall correctly.

Yes you could do this, from Sun Microelectronics back in the 1990's. We purchased an Ultra-10 motherboard with 250 MHz Ultrasparc II in 1998/1999, fitted it out with compatible third party SVGA, Ethernet and SCSI adapters and ran Solaris on it. Was our production LDAP, Mail and database server for a small ISP for many years.

I later worked for a systems builder that built and sold Sparc/Ultrasparc systems for government (eg. Hong Kong Mass Transit). We were the only vendor in the Southern Hemisphere doing it. So it wasn't common. But yes you could order parts from Sun Microelectronics and build your own systems, and it became easier use certain standard PC compatible parts once they standardised on PCI. We had shelves full of the older incompatible MBus compatible systems and boards as well.

Until Fuzix of course.

Not written in assembly, mostly Javascript and HTML/CSS.

Strong disagree. Appropriate levels of humility is not something that Lisp weenies suffer from.

It's a Lisp programmer thing.

> 3. Designed for the Elite Let’s be honest: Lisp is a language designed by and for elite hackers

... it took them up to item #3 this time? Usually i see this quoted as item #1

Ive been throwing z80, 6502, 68000, 8086, i386 and x86_64 asm at it lately. Haven't seen it get stuck on any of them.