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VERSION, SOVERSION, and Tiny x86 Minds

The tiny x86 mindset keeps making the same mistakes over and over again. Lately they’ve done it with SOVERSION. It wouldn’t be so bad if their decisions didn’t jack up the world for at least a decade. These stupid decisions go all the way back to IBM and it’s first PC where they opted to place the address space for adapter cards (like video) in the address space 640-1024K, thus creating a 640K barrier for … VERSION, SOVERSION, and Tiny x86 MindsRead more

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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 2

Diamond is cross platform. It runs on Linux and other platforms supported by CopperSpice. There are some things I would like to try adding and donating back to the community. Themes – Right now you can just set individual colors but I would like to enhance that part to add the ability to save named sets of colors. I intend to try setting up a few from the world of Emacs that I like so … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 2Read more