The Amiga's OS was written in 68k asm and BCPL (C's grandfather) for the kernel, and C was used for the utilities and GUI. But this was considered quite ahead of its time for a single user micro.
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You're thinking of Shit Jobs, the FruitCo charlatan. Gates' pancake sort algorithm held the speed record for 30 years.
"Who the hell" writes an OS in assembler in the 80s? Uh, some of the utilities are in C, but compilers were slow and generated slow code back then, and it was quite noticable on a slow machine. When every byte of memory counts, you often need to hand-optimize.
His last product was the OS for the Tandy model 100 in 1983.
restic is better.
Amazing, thank you for this! I love ffmpeg so much. If ever was an underappreciated workhorse that you'll find enabling almost everything people do with video.
And they can even use coreboot supposedly, but I haven't had the butthole to flash it.
Also, ditch pihole for blocky. It's faster and uses less RAM, and is far less complex. And it will run right on FreeBSD, no separate machine required. Couple it with prometheus and grafana and you even get pretty graphs just like pihole.
Yes, under which to do anything worth a damn, you will be using open source toolchains, libraries, and quite possibly whole applications.
If you can get it to run on arm64, and you can manage to provision an instance (they are in seemingly perpetually limited supply), evil Oracle actually has a pretty generous always free tier Ampere offering. You can have up to 4c/24GB instance for free, sliced and diced as you see fit (4 1c instances, for example). You only get 200GB of block storage, though, so you'd have to either pony up for that or use object storage (not sure if nextcloud can use S3-like API object storage).
Preach it.
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Ever hear of Windows NT? Legacy DOS code was relegated to userspace long ago. And NT was designed by Dave Cutler, the guy who designed VMS and RSX-11. Most certainly not "shit piled on top of shit." Unix could have learned a thing or two from Dave but by then it was too late; the plane had very much taken off.