yuhong's comments

On: Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS c...

[yuhong]

AFAIK this was based on Windows 3.1 standard mode which was small enough to package in a mini.cab.

On: Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said

[yuhong]

AFAIK while AMD didn't produce the 387 there was alternatives from for example Cyrix and IIT at the time.

[lproven → yuhong]

And the socket-compatible, better-than-the-original Weitek 3167.

http://www.weitek.com/textual/products/wtl3167.html

On: Chrome Removing Theora Support

[yuhong]

I am asking the WMF to add support for MP4: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329258

On: Tell HN: After April 21st you cannot run ads on Tw...

[yuhong]

I wonder how much revenue Twitter has from ads and subscriptions.

On: Win16 Retro Development

[yuhong]

On the other hand, Xorg pulled the original -vga driver quite a long time ago because it was quite a lot of code.

On: Alt-Enter doesn’t Window DOS graphics in XP, but w...

[yuhong]

There is a MS13-xxx bulletin that had a bug where full screen DOS was completely broken when /NOEXECUTE=OPTOUT was set in boot.ini

On: Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?

[yuhong]

Part of the reason why I pay attention to Marginalia search is the hardware problems it shows. There are now some good papers on SSD based search engines.

On: Mudge's redacted Twitter whistleblower disclosure ...

[yuhong]

Part of the point of SSD based search engines is they are much easier to cold boot as well.

On: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to...

[yuhong]

Part of the problem is that Google was designed when PCs booted from spinning rust and a fast CPU was a Pentium II.

On: Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04

[yuhong]

"This must be passed to the FPU interface, which acts somewhat like a DMA controller and contains its own base and limit registers." What may be fun is the coprocessor segment overrun exception.