Re: Old platforms never die, was Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

2021-01-16 Thread Finn Thain
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, Rob Landley wrote: > Speaking of which, my qemu m68k system has failed to boot ever since commit: > > commit f93bfeb55255bddaa16597e187a99ae6131b964a > Author: Finn Thain > Date: Sun Jun 28 14:23:12 2020 +1000 > > macintosh/via-macii: Poll the device most likely to re

Re: Old platforms never die, was Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

2021-01-15 Thread Rob Landley
On 1/12/21 6:12 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > If you're a museum interested in cultural artifacts from decades past, or > if you're a business doing data recovery, you're going to need to operate > those platforms. Or if you're camping patent expirations and want to be able to point at prior art for n

Old platforms never die, was Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

2021-01-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Tue, 12 Jan 2021, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > There has to be a healthy balance between hobbyist and commercial use. > Yes, both of those, and everything in-between, including for-profit businesses that serve mostly hobbyists. Also start-up companies that may never be commercially