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NCommander
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Приєднався 21 жов 2006
I'm NCommander, also known as FOSSFirefighter in various parts of the Internet. I have a passion for retrotech, digital preservation, and studying the facts that help build the technological world we live in today.
In the past, I used to professionally develop the Ubuntu operating system, volunteered as an interior firefighter in Henrietta, NY, and traveled across the world living out of a backpack for years at a time. I don't know where this road is going to take me, but I enjoy making content on UA-cam, and I'm always hoping to find that rare "grail in the garbage" moment whenever I start a new project.
Feel free to drop me a line on Discord or Mastodon if you've got an interesting tip, and as always, I'm wishing you all a great day.
In the past, I used to professionally develop the Ubuntu operating system, volunteered as an interior firefighter in Henrietta, NY, and traveled across the world living out of a backpack for years at a time. I don't know where this road is going to take me, but I enjoy making content on UA-cam, and I'm always hoping to find that rare "grail in the garbage" moment whenever I start a new project.
Feel free to drop me a line on Discord or Mastodon if you've got an interesting tip, and as always, I'm wishing you all a great day.
So I Visited A Digital Basement, and Did Something to Adrian Black's PLEXUS P/20
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NetBSD 10, But It's On A 25Mhz VAX Somewhere In Canada ...
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Netscape, But It Doesn't Support DNS (ft. SunOS 4 and NIS)
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Netscape, But It Doesn't Support DNS (ft. SunOS 4 and NIS)
Installing Five Rarely Used Vintage Operating Systems Rapidfire (ft. Cray mainframes)
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Installing Five Rarely Used Vintage Operating Systems Rapidfire (ft. Cray mainframes)
How NOT To Implement the POSIX Standard, Featuring Windows NT ...
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How NOT To Implement the POSIX Standard, Featuring Windows NT ...
END OF SEASON 1 - What We Have Accomplished
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END OF SEASON 1 - What We Have Accomplished
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The Blandest PC Experience You Could Buy In 1998 For $7,000 ... // Exploring the SunPCI
What Does It Take To Run DOOM On A $10,000 IBM RS/6000 From 2001?
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What Does It Take To Run DOOM On A $10,000 IBM RS/6000 From 2001?
The Forgotten Secrets of the First Linux LiveCD (Yggdrasil Linux)
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The Forgotten Secrets of the First Linux LiveCD (Yggdrasil Linux)
What Does It Take To Port 16-Bit Windows 1.0 Applications Into Native Windows 11 Programs?
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What Does It Take To Port 16-Bit Windows 1.0 Applications Into Native Windows 11 Programs?
Cursed Apple IIgs, Odd Windows 1.0, iMac Prototypes, the AT&T UNIX PC, And More (VCF East 2021)
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Cursed Apple IIgs, Odd Windows 1.0, iMac Prototypes, the AT&T UNIX PC, And More (VCF East 2021)
The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
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The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
THINGS THAT SHOULDN'T EXIST: Internet Explorer for UNIX
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THINGS THAT SHOULDN'T EXIST: Internet Explorer for UNIX
The Version of Windows NT That Fits in 10 MiB (Embedded Edition)
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The Version of Windows NT That Fits in 10 MiB (Embedded Edition)
Repairing One Of The Worst Keyboards Ever Made ... // (Compaq Portable Part 2)
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Repairing One Of The Worst Keyboards Ever Made ... // (Compaq Portable Part 2)
I Turned A Raspberry Pi Into A Commodore 1541 Disk Drive ...
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I Turned A Raspberry Pi Into A Commodore 1541 Disk Drive ...
Exploring A Bunch of Retro Programming Tools (Mailcall #1)
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Exploring A Bunch of Retro Programming Tools (Mailcall #1)
Repairing An Explosive Compaq Portable I
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Repairing An Explosive Compaq Portable I
Why Richard Stallman's Return to the FSF Is Not To Be Celebrated ...
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Why Richard Stallman's Return to the FSF Is Not To Be Celebrated ...
The Mysterious Dutch Railways HP Jornada 680e
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The Mysterious Dutch Railways HP Jornada 680e
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Preserving WordStar with DOS, CP/M, and a Commodore 128 // (NCommander in Realtime)
Digital Forensics And Archaeology Against A 486 // (Intel Professional Workstation Part 3)
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Digital Forensics And Archaeology Against A 486 // (Intel Professional Workstation Part 3)
Installing Debian Linux 2.1 From 1999 Was A Painful Experience ...
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Installing Debian Linux 2.1 From 1999 Was A Painful Experience ...
486 Data Recovery with MSBACKUP and NetWare // Intel Professional Workstation (Part 2) | #DOScember
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486 Data Recovery with MSBACKUP and NetWare // Intel Professional Workstation (Part 2) | #DOScember
A Sealed Mystery From 1984 - The IBM PC Graphical File System | #DOSCember
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A Sealed Mystery From 1984 - The IBM PC Graphical File System | #DOSCember
An Intel Branded EISA-Based 486 Desktop Computer? (Part 1) | #DOSCember
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An Intel Branded EISA-Based 486 Desktop Computer? (Part 1) | #DOSCember
Compiling Word for Windows from OS/2 1.2
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Compiling Word for Windows from OS/2 1.2
Running DOS and Windows Without a Hard Drive From NetWare
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Running DOS and Windows Without a Hard Drive From NetWare
Installing SLS Linux On Real Hardware Required Far More Effort Than Expected ... // (SLS Part 2)
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Installing SLS Linux On Real Hardware Required Far More Effort Than Expected ... // (SLS Part 2)
Clearly much more comfortable with a genuine Murray Hill UNIX.
I have been watching this Plexus series! The basement looks cozy!
omg this cross over is amazing
top 10 crossovers of all time
Welcome to Portland!
I love it when my favorite retro/linux/apple youtubers collab and look out for each other! Love your video Ncommander! Watched your streams hours on end!
Cool. Now rig us up a way to ssh into it.
Is this a crossover episode?
Not yet, but hopefully.
Ohhhh! I am here for this collaboration! 🤜 🤛
i see fortune in the session, that must be a new thing... and maybe a rom hack... or you managed to find the kernel source and rebuilt it... gah, i wanna see more
yes! as soon as i saw this had a c compiler, i thought of you
The teamup we didn't know we needed. This is awesome :)
It's freakin' working!
Hahaha, perfect!
It's a UNIX system!
I know this!
i love how the retro tech channels come together and overlap
Any plan to upload a long Version of your visit? This visit is a perfect match to your current UNIX Saga ;)
I have to see what footage I actually have, and then I might lay a voiceover, but I don't have have a recording of my terminal session
Just finished watching the video where Adrian had this beast fully running. Would be interesting if he can locate a suitable network card and you're able to help him get a driver compiled for it!
THere's part of a X.25 network stack, but no TCP/IP or equivalent.
@@NCommander can it get on the internet with SLIP?
I think the Next thing is to help Adrián black with this thing of the ethernet card.
Great👍
Someone, please find Adrian a Multibus Ethernet board so NC can hack on this remotely as well! I'm sure the fabled docs found on the disk will have the supported model, otherwise according to Joe's On-line Multibus Circuit Board Guide, try the Computer Machinery Corp ENP-30 Ethernet card aka Excelan EXOS201 Intelligent Ethernet controller. Yes I know, "just connect one of the serial ports to a computer with PuTTY and Tailscale RDP in" - what's the fun in that?
huh, i remember mentioning this to you on your stream i'm glad you got a chance to see that thing. it was one of the most exciting video series that adrian has done so far in my opinion. ...gonna port BSD to it? 🤔
2MiB of RAM is a bit small for any of the current era BSDs. That said, if Adrian's down, I have some ideas on where to go next.
aaa!! coool!!!
I must have missed that you had so much hair! :D
I don't usually have it down when I do videos, but my hair tie did a runner.
THE POTATO IS RUNNING AT FULL POWER
vrrm
Potato? Was a huge computer for the time.
So for context, I visited Portland, OR, and saw Adrian face to face. I obviously had to spend some time playing with this, and went and relinked the kernel with a custom version string and learned a few things about it. With luck I'll have a more in-depth opportunity to play with it.
Hope you come back to the PNW soon. We're hoping to do an "Interim Computer Festival" (like a mini VCF) every 6 months. Adrian likes to drive up for the day
I couldn't think of a better match than you and that machine. Glad to see it happened :)
More video?
At the moment, I only had about an hour to work on it, but likely down the line.
/unix
See I already knew it was going to involve the Plexus just seeing the first half of the title.
Summon /nunix
Glad to see you while i viewing the video on aix on your rs/6000
are you going to vcf midwest? going there to (hopefully, at least) celebrate beating cancer so it'd be nice to bump into you 👀
I legitimately don't know, given everything in my life ATM.
Make Openbsd on fdd image
So OpenBSD had to build VAX images on a real VAX? Taking days per build? Wow....
I mean... CPU emulation is possible. Whether it's more or less usable I can't say
When I saw this I thought hey, OpenBSD is using a Pharmacy?
0:25 should read "Beard of directors"😅
That’s insane. They’re selling themselves short.
I found this video by accident and while watching it, I remembered the recent LCG thread on port-vax. While thinking "Whee, this poor guy was just a teeny tiny bit too early, that has just been fixed!", I later on realized that you were the guy fixing it. Thanks for working on NetBSD on VAX! 🙂
I was tempted to throw the video link on port-vax TBH, but it seems out of place to me.
it video gets a big like
*BSD motto "we refuse to change".
I personally still use SCCS
I remember converting about 50-60 repos from svn to git, and it was a reasonable amount of painful, and that was with only 40 or so committers to account for. I can only imagine how many a project that size has. I doubt that you'd want to map them all to Joe Bloggs.
It’s a monorepo but I did a conversion to git in a livestream and it sucked
Really cool. Your code rot comment really stood out to me. I was trying to run packet radio (1k2 baud AFSK AX.25 over ham radio) with the compiled ports in NetBSD. Unfortunately, code rot has got to the BBS software, and it crashes when a new user connects and tries to register their home BBS. This stuff seems right up your alley, but not sure if you are a ham radio/packet radio guy. I am not really a programmer, so I am not sure how to go about debugging and fixing the source. I started with GDB, but it's socket simply goes away in a crash and does not seem to do anything in GDB. I am also not sure if the binary is stripped. That is about as much as I know about this process.
I’m a licensed ham (kd2jrt), although I haven't been able to be on air in awhile. There's an amateur radio channel in my discord server which can help of you want to drop by
I hope got will replace it in the near future
They won't. For them, if it works, why would they need to change it? This is a key policy in OpenBSD.
@@sofiaknyazeva the license. GNU CVS is licensed under GPL and that's an unacceptable license.
They have OpenCVS as a replacement
@@libredove they use their own cvs
omg but it's so horrible by today's standards
Most people: “This version of Linux won’t work with this hard disk. Bummer. Let me switch hard disk with a smaller one real quick.” NCommander: “LEt’S REwrITE tHe LInuX KErnEL”
I'm one of those maniacs watching the VODs all the way through, on 1.25x though, hope that still counts (I have YT Premium).
It does, thanks
@@NCommander I find it genuinely interesting too just to be clear, it's not _just_ the completionist in me.
That's what happened to the 8-bit guy
X never worked out the box. Never
Does on most Unix systems, just xfree86 was kinda shit
@@NCommander most UNIX systems were probably the same hardware I guess
We at our home already had Cable internet or "broadband" back in late 1999. It was capable of reaching 45 or 50kb/s which was stunning because the 56k modem before that was 1 to 3kb/s and THAT was a party moment. Granted this was in Scandinavia.
It's probably a bug with how Arm64 OpenBSD interacts with hypervisors, Apple's hypervisor performance is surprisingly good, better than Hyper-V even.