Same as we use it now, to be frank. Unix workstations as an interaction model have persisted so long because it works just great.
I was writing a lot of Unix software in that period - database apps, business logic, and so on. For me, using an MSDOS-based system was a compromise, which I enhanced by using Desqview to get multi-tasking - it allowed multiple MSDOS instances on a single machine, in which I ran terminal software, compilers (our apps were being ported to MSDOS...), and database admin tasks - just like today.
What we have today in the form of MacOS or Linux workstations is pretty much what we had back then, too. The power is inescapable.
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Make things that empower people and give them the ability to be class-fluid. That's what the world really needs, after all.
The problem is: by the way you were raised, you have become deeply brainwashed into the social norms of your class for decades. Becoming class-fluid means getting free of this whole brainwashing, and then get a brainwashing for your destination social class. This also implies that you have to give up all your friends (if you keep them, they will back-brainwash you into your old habits; additionally, by the reprogramming these old friends will be unable to get on with you anymore because you have become a "different person" for them).
Wow! You just articulated a feeling I have had but could not put my finger on it until I read that. I grew up in a blue-collar Midwest US city that was decimated by the loss of domestic manufacturing. I went to college and got a CS degree and went on to enjoy 2+ decades of the tech boom and was paid well for it. Thus, allowing me and my family move into a different class i.e. white collar, educated, entrepreneurial, class-fluid. But now at middle age I don’t recognize any of my friends from the “old” neighborhood as I have changed so much, we don’t really know each other anymore. Our views on many things are so different we might as well be strangers. But due to being raised in that blue-collar environment my thoughts and ideas sometimes don’t mesh with the new class of people I find myself socializing with now. Which leaves me in some kind of limbo. I don’t fit in with the people from my past, but I don’t fit in with the people of my present.
It still to this day has a thriving scene, lots of interesting quirky programs still being written for it. (https://oric.org/)
There is also a thriving hardware hacking scene of course, 21st century peripherals being brought to the user base, and so on.
One of the more interesting things (besides LOCI), is the orix system, which is a 'unix-like' environment for the Oric, which uses avariant of the 6502 cpu.
Its pretty cool - and fun if you're an Oric nerd - but if you like 'unix-like' systems for unusual platforms, put this one in your list to check out, as well:
Oh, yeah, I know 'unix-like' has a wide scale of sincerity, this is not quite there .. yet .. in terms of having all the unix bits, really .. but it is at least bootstrap in that kind of direction, for the Oric .. anyway ..
> .. the most frustrating part about software engineers believing themselves to be the part of the business with the most complex, unknowable work. ..
>_Every_ function in a tech business has hidden complexity.
In my opinion, the conflict is in the distinction.
Stereotypes abound, but I have always found in this battle between worlds, there is a simple bridging maneuver: never work for someone, or accept management guidance, from someone who cannot also comfortably do your work. corollary: never manage someone unless you're prepared to do their job for them comfortably.
Yes, this is cold and hard, but so are those stereotypes, kids. There are Manager Engineers and there are Engineer Managers. But there's also just managers and engineers with both skills, simply focusing their work as needed for the specific project. The ultimately fun organization to work in is where different people have different roles in multiple projects, comfortably.
Key word. Getting this mix comfortable is the job of a good CEO, fwiw.
And guess what, it doesn't matter whether the salesperson can do any job but understand just how great this particular hierarchys' products are, and why the end result of this configuration is worth the spend.
I have written device drivers for, literally, decades now.
Its the old guys who write the best drivers, naturally.
For me, Asterinas represents a refreshing way to approach some thorny problems in the embedded space, in which embedded-Linux on ARM, RISC-V and MIPS is a viable, economically-speaking, platform for a great deal of industry.
While Asterinas is really sexy, if this same approach were taken for, say, FreeRTOS as well along the way .. then there could at least, also, be "on one hands" worth of operating systems, abstracted, in the "lets just use rust' camp ..
If you're really objecting to new information systems being created from an existing historical/cultural corpus' as a means of making cultural treasures more accessible to a literate audience, are you really a hacker?
The fact of the use of Maori to organize Maori literature, is of immense interest, whether it suits a foreign, supposed culture more, or otherwise.
This is a new method of organizing an important corpus of cultural knowledge, granting new insight to an intended audience.
Why not applaud its utility, rather than immediately disregard the results to be attained?
Or have you, indeed, found it wanting as a means of searching for specific details in the Maori collection?
>gaslighting
I think the standard issue, if you feel like this, is to check oneself, before one wrecks oneself. Here, let me show you the gaslight: "has no historical basis", "just Maori-themed", "forms of record keeping", "no meaningful information classification system", "I feel.."
