Stephen Hoffman

@HoffmanLabs

Services and Support: OpenVMS, OS X Server, Security, DECnet and IP Networking. ⌘ irc·2600·net

HoffmanLabs.com
Joined August 2007
10 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

@HoffmanLabs is blocked

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @HoffmanLabs.

  1. Oct 11

    Unix fork() — a call too few grok — uses copy-on-write, and so does Swift. Entirely different internals, but the same goals.

    1 retweet
  2. Oct 5

    Pondering ObjC or Swift for some new work. ObjC is winning the trade-offs, at least in the short term.

  3. Sep 29

    H. Fu at al. "The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer: system and applications". Evolved DEC Alpha cores.

    2 retweets
  4. Sep 16

    Love this quote: Devs, write down how to use your code. Then simplify--by editing the code, not the text.

    66 retweets 87 likes
  5. Aug 31

    EFI has some good ideas. And a rotten UI. Booting an OS to add a boot alias can be easier than adding an alias directly via EFI.

  6. Aug 30

    An Overview of the Alpha AXP 21164 Micro-Architecture, lecture by John Edmonson: via

    3 retweets 10 likes
  7. Aug 21

    If you want multiple sequential firewalls from differing vendors, check that the firewall firmware isn’t all from the same provider.

    1 retweet 2 likes
  8. Aug 17

    Yes, a broken software design is a bug. It’s a different & often more pernicious bug, but it’s still a bug. Same for UI mistakes.

    2 likes
  9. Aug 10

    I really dislike user interfaces that lead the users deep into the weeds. There are far too many of those around, unfortunately.

  10. Aug 8 Melbourne, Victoria

    I'm helping to find a home for a working VAX 6000 and VAX 4000 in Bridgeport, CT. Gets Recycled on 8/17. Ping me.

    236 retweets 128 likes
  11. Aug 8

    So when I’ve ^U’d lines to the top of the current EVE editor display, maybe scroll down so I can see & keep going?

    1 like
  12. Aug 5

    It’s size-sensitive, too. A small cut-and-paste of a ~dozen lines of text works fine, only larger ones drop.

  13. Aug 5

    Daily grumble: HPE iLO immediately drops the connection on a cut-and-paste into the console session. Every. Time. Why, iLO? Why?

  14. Aug 4

    New post explores the SHOW NETWORK and related OpenVMS DCL commands:

  15. Jul 31

    So if I tell the OpenVMS installer there are no plans to use DECnet, why does it then ask about installing DECnet Phase IV and DECnet-Plus?

    1 retweet 2 likes
  16. Jul 27

    “2-Feb-1994…Bad news folks ... the groundhog saw his shadow today so that means 6 more weeks of field test!”

  17. Jul 16

    Standing room only for PDP-1 demo at

    12 retweets 28 likes
  18. Jul 14

    HPE Integrity firmware; are your servers Y3K ready?

    2 retweets
  19. Jul 14

    TIL: HPE Integrity rx2900 exists. It’s a variant rx2800 for the Chinese market. First country variant I’ve seen with Integrity servers.

    1 like
  20. Stephen Hoffman followed , , and 7 others

@HoffmanLabs hasn't tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·