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  • I still think it is very cursed to see that image of RMS using that laptop despite I was shocked to see it 12 years ago. Still shocks me to this day.
    by stevefan1999
  • It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?
    by shrubble
  • The wsconscfg problem with multiple screens, whatever it exactly is, is decidedly odd. According to this, the display is being driven as smfb0 in what is largely a dumb framebuffer mode, no acceleration, no GPU, no fancy high jinks whatsoever. wscons/wsdisplay should have no difficulty with multiple screens on that sort of thing.
    by JdeBP
  • I don't think these machines achieved much popularity in China either, as standard PCs were far more common and compatible with the existing software base.

    the keyboard and trackpad are internally PS/2.

    Interesting that the PC influence is still there, although I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports. I remember having a similar moment of surprise when I played around with an ARM VM and discovered it had a "VGA-compatible" GPU emulating an old ISA-class chip.

    by userbinator
  • For those curious about the Godson–dog food connection, the Chinese code name was 狗剩 gǒu shèng 'scraps for the dog'.

    https://baike.baidu.com/item/Godson/10744024

    by sandbach
  • No computer is obsolete with a BSD. I still use an n270 netbook daily.
    by anthk
  • The NetSurf browser the author tried out has multiple frontends. Two run on OpenBSD that I know of, the “default” GTK frontend and an SDL‐based framebuffer frontend. As was pointed out, GTK has a rather sizeable number of dependencies; building the framebuffer frontend instead would save a lot of time.
    by bentley
  • "However, I can find no evidence that Richard Stallman had/has a dog, or indeed any pet."

    According to his own disclosures, he has a fear of dogs

    https://web.archive.org/web/20120119135147if_/https://secure...

    by 1vuio0pswjnm7

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