The FAA phasing out floppy disks by 2028 sounds ridiculous until you realize floppies are just the symptom. Commenters pointed out the real bottleneck is the 1980s minicomputers they feed: you cannot swap the drive without replacing the entire flight control stack. #hardware 1/4

Teletypes basically ran on it for years I think. Probably the DEC mainframes and minicomputers too. Proper computing just like your ma used to make☺️

It’s all just another iteration of the thin/thick client design cycle that’s been going on since the first minicomputers

Huang is a proven liar (just like Trump). Huang will lie about anything (just like Trump).
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So you had the creation of minicomputers like the PDP-7.

Then the homebrew revolution where people flipped switches to load programs in literally bit-by-bit.

Then the microcomputer revolution spearheaded by Xerox, jump-started by IBM, stolen by Apple & Microsoft, and enabled by Linux.

And we shouldn't have minicomputers. We should have dumb terminals that connect to big computers, and we pay for Computers as a Service (CaaS) subscription. There may be high use times, so your processing speeds will be affected, unless you pay for the "Ultra" tier.

The *idea* of mini-computers appeals to me so much, but the don't come with keyboards, screens, etc., so I don't have a use for them.

But they're so ~cool~!

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Simulation for Automatic Machinery, two minicomputers.

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

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@iorsh I think the main reason everyone uses double these days is Unix started out on little minicomputers that were short of disk space and so the guys at Bell Labs wrote only one set of math subroutines to serve for both single and double precision. This ended up being what was standardized […]

[SCMP] Chinese scientists find neurons may act as minicomputers that help decision-making

my target platform is generally old refurbished hp workstations/minicomputers

they're regularly used in the retro tournament scene, they're about a hundred bucks a pop, and they're generally on par with the sort of thing your average student or parent already owns for various reasons