rbanffy

✨ Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.

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📅 Joined in 2008

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It's fun to imagine there might be ways to tailor the chemistry to create highly specific imaging and sensations. Probably limited to imagery we have evolved with, because that's what must be embedded in our fundamental brain structure, but intriguing nevertheless.
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Humans are not supposed to know that yet. You'll get in trouble with management if you continue doing this.
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Sorry. Coherent and QNX happened more or less at the same time on PCs. I learned C on QNX.

Sadly, can’t fix the title at this time.

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That should have been the default font for VGA.

On PCs, my personal favourite is https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_3270...

Not a surprise that it is heavily inspired by their mainframe terminal fonts.

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I moved to AppleWorks, but did a lot of graphs for college using SuperCalc 3a.
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