Elektronika in the Soviet Union sold a number of LSI-11 home computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_BK

Fun to ponder what would it be like if the PDP-11 (and descendents like VAX) architecture had become dominant instead of x86.

The word “mile” comes from Latin “mille passus”, one thousand paces. A pace was measures from same footfalls: left, left, left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Historical

Reminds me of when the New York Times apologized to Robert Goddard when it turned out that rockets worked fine in outer space after all.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/07/19/the-corre...

I seem to recall that Sun put ZFS under a license that has been deemed incompatible with the GPL by pretty much everyone except Canonical, and so that it can't be integrated with the kernel but must remain a "bolt-on" for legal reasons.

It won't surprise me if one of these days Oracle decides that Canonical is a ripe lawsuit target over ZFS.

Why would they if they haven't already? It's not like Canonical has a lot of money. But, yes, anyone else who Oracle might actually elect to sue won't go anywhere near ZFS.

Likely because they want to keep that powder dry until someone with deep pockets gets involved, Microsoft, or IBM or someone.

Because there's a moderate change that it goes against them.

Btrfs has also been improving. Certainly not for all use cases but it's the default for desktop Fedora now and some Synology NASs use it, among others.

On one hand ZFS has held down btrfs because "why bother" when you already have something that does much of what you want, but on the other hand it shows what can be done.

I hope btrfs becomes quite stable and usable.

Yeah, but even if bolt it on (which Ubuntu does for you, any other distro it's easy to do) it's still a "bolt-on" that doesn't integrate as fully as it could if it were the native filesystem, allowing full system rollback, snapshotting, boot management, etc.

It's similar to the "polish" available on macOS or Windows, Linux has all the pieces but you have to assemble them yourselves, even today.

Oracle itself deploys DTRACE with it's Oracle Linux.

That whole CDDL/GPL incompatibility is BS.

This would be a more convincing argument if your facts weren't over half a decade out of date. DTrace for Linux was relicensed under the UPL (with kernel components under GPLv2, just like the kernel) way back in 2017.

(speaking as the guy who wrote the scripts to change all the license text, though the actual relicensing was due to a lot of work on my boss's part.)

Well true but Oracle Linux included DTRACE for more then half a decade.

And canonical includes ZFS, and i think they have more lawyers then you and me.

Do you really think they would take that risk especially with oracle to include ZFS (that is not even their main fs)?

Have some commonsense.

As a bicyclist, I use my front brake vastly more than the rear.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html

Relevant conversation here 11 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34651799

Shove crinkled-up newspaper into the boots, it will absorb moisture and hasten drying (was taught this by an Icelandic hiking guide).

I think the Flying Circus in Bealeton, VA (near DC) brought back free wing-walking (i.e. not strapped to the plane), and continues their barnstorming airshows to this day:

https://www.flyingcircusairshow.com/

I expect that's what I was remembering, then. Thanks.

That website is beautiful!

Beautiful...and up to date.

That's been done - the Apollo Guidance Computer that took people to the Moon was built from purely NOR gates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Logic...