Context: 20 minutes ago, Russian only official pro-European and anti-war opposition party "Yabloko" ("Apple") was removed from election polls by court. The elections were rigged, as the other party was unable to present any proper evidence yet still won
https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/c0qv3qpqv25o
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Hello, so I was an android user for my whole life and recently became kind of obsessed with Apple as a whole, so after considering on what to upgrade to I have a choice of either Iphone 16 Pro or Iphone 17 (both used) to later get basically all of ecosystem (Watch, Airpods, Macbook, etc.) Which one of them wouls be better in long-term?
Straight up - no torture, etc, just "doom-type". I want to pull on a trigger and do mess. Want to relieve my anger on something digital, without any twisted crap. I already completed Doom and Atomic Heart, so these are out of question, but maybe there is something similar? Looking for PC/PS4 games
I know Spain will win! But sorry, I don't know Spanish..
Hello. So, I have around 700$ on hands, and wanna get a smartphone to replace my current old chinese one. I've been looking at iphones, but also was considering something foldable/flippable (like Z Fold 6/7). My main concerns are screen, camera, CPU (not for games, but performance in general) and support at least to 2030. Anything that may suit me?
Alright, so I finally have money and proper reason to upgrade from my old chinese phone. I have around 700$ on hands and willing to wait up to January to get better deals. Right now, I have a few considerations for upgrade: Iphone 17, Iphone 15 Pro, Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Fold 7 along with Pixel Fold, but the most "liked" by me are in title. Any other, perhaps better phones in that price gap? I mainly care about ecosystem, cameras, display, CPU power (not for games) and system support up to 2030-ish year
Hi Reddit, so right from the start - I support peace and will never advocate for any type of conflict. For the past few months and before that I've been living in a warzone (Kursk oblast) of Russian-Ukranian war. Every night I hear buzzing of drones, explosions, jet engines, see rockets flying across the sky. Last year even my own house was damaged by one of the drones that fell nearby. I'm trying to raise awareness and share as much as I can, so, AMA
Watched it today. Absolute cinema.
Hello! While gathering ICs for my ACS-M project, I got my hands on one of these - the x89s. But what is it and why you most likely have never heard of that?
In a nutshell - 8089 is an I/O coprocessor which was rolled out as a part of MCS-86 family of chips. It's capable as heck, functioning like a CPU of its own, featuring a 16-bit multiplexed bus, request handling and requiring it's own support chips - the same ones 8086 would use.
What is it capable of? The grand idea behind it was to decrease the load on CPU by allowing the i8089 to manage RAM->I/O relationship, DMA, copy-paste stuff from RAM and back, interact with controllers using its wide bus and be the perfect I/O handler that would work asynchronnous and autonomously.
What went wrong? Well, nothing. It had its use, although not as much as one could expect. While Intel praised it in its datasheets and suggestions for a system design, the 8089 was rarely used, with the most prominent example being the Apricot PC. The problem - IBM chose to utilize i8237 DMA controller, much cheaper and "dumber" alternative, which couldn't do many thing i89 could. The i89 was then forgotten, with latter I/O coprocessors not receiving x89 name (unlike x87 for math coprocessors).
Why would I use it? It's really nice way to make a multiprocessor system, as i89 can function as a master, have advantages over i8237 and provides more benefits towards the increase in free system resources.
So, that's all for now.
Hello, this is a first post about a project that boiled in my head for months, as now it came to something exact. This is ACS-M, Alpha Computer System, the project with the goal to create one of the most powerful 8086-based systems. It's not intended to be IBM-compatible by default, but I'll think about it. Now here is the main prototype "schematics" of the project layout. It'll feature two i8086 CPUs (both in MASTER, with higher priority of solo-86 block), one i8089 (very powerful and usable I/O IC), 8087 and additional subsystems in future. It'll take me some time to start buildng it from the scratch.
So, if you have some questions, or some information that may be useful for it in the future, please share! I want to discuss the possibility of building something like this at all.