ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Congrats Dunks! Bloody well deserved! #BrisbaneLions

Using LLMs to chat with books and documents? That's so 1978.

In the 1970s the HELPSYS facility of Interlisp-10 let you interrogate the 700+ pages Interlisp Reference Manual via an English like syntax. You could run queries on topics and system functions such as TELL ME ABOUT EVAL or TELL ME ABOUT THE 2ND ARG OF CHANGEPROP and HELPSYS would print the relevant information or section of the manual. Here's an example session from the 1978 edition of the manual:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp/Interlisp-Oct_1978.pdf#page=474

Interlisp-10 was the Interlisp implementation for the PDP-10.

#interlisp #documentation #lisp #retrocomputing

The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, published in September 1992.
It referenced every website available at the time, mind blowing that you could visit every single site in one sitting, the golden times!

bad news ipv4 fans.

linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results.

this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable.