Post #2098611
2026-03-27 18:14 UTC
Now, maybe I should feel kind of bad about doing that. But, xv lifted its GIF encoding code from somewhere else too. The original source had comments crediting it to Michael Mauldin and David Rowley from 1989. But, then there was another comment below that where they credit it to an IEEE Computer Article from 1984.
So, it's not really the same as installing a dependency, but definitely in the spirit of early open source. 20/n?
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@dabeaz@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 18:18
With the physics code now able to render "spheres" and make images, we just need to solve a certain transport problem. The Connection Machine was physically in a different building and on a different network. You couldn't really log into it in the traditional sense. However, you could open up socket connections. So, the physics code was modified to open a network socket that was connected to a small "server" program running on your desktop machine. 21/n?