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Re: The Boring Beige Box podcast went 404

For future reference: I also found a copy on archive.org. However their time is shorter for episode the last episode. The media fire version includes an intro. I wonder if the archive version does not... https://archive.org/details/BoringBeigeBoxPodcast

Re: The Boring Beige Box podcast went 404

Unapologetically bumping an old thread. I randomly thought of this podcast today and went looking for the episodes so thanks for archiving these. Hey Flack, I’ve enjoyed your books especially when you talked about 405 as I once called OKC home.

Re: IDE to SD card question

in DOS
When I connect the SD to IDE adapter trough an IDE to USB adapter, i can see both partitions. But then i have to open the case of the dos pc and dissamble the thing. So when you connect the SD to IDE and IDE to USB you see both partitions on your Windows 10 machine? Did I understand that right? If …

Re: Java Emulation

When I wrote that I had in mind people implementing garbage collectors for their c++ applications back in the day. But yeah Smalltalk definitely need influenced the JVM. Here’s an interesting paper on Smalltalk’s influence: https://www.labouseur.com/courses/tpl/ ... savona.pdf.

Re: IDE to SD card question

in DOS
Yeah I'm wondering if there's something going on with the partition. @konc is right, Windows won't let you manage partitions on removable media. Can you run fdisk on your DOS machine against the card? What does it show?

Re: IDE to SD card question

in DOS
If the card is already formatted and read/writable under your DOS PC, you should be good to go. The format should be some type of FAT which Windows can still read/write. All this is assuming you have a card reader that works well in Windows 10. 😉

Re: Java Emulation

It's a virtual machine, like DOSbox is, even though DOSbox is an emulator, but you don't emulate DOSbox on another system, you port or implement it. I guess the Java Virtual Machine is kind of an emulator in that it emulates a machine to run Java on. So it exists as self parody, QED Java is Rodney …

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