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@davepl1968 "Steering box and arm pitman arm tie rod. exhaust pipe oil filter oil pressure sensor clutch linkage. There's a lot going on here I do my own mechanical then send it out for the cosmetics Other than a final detail this is finished. My '69 L36 XXX 2+2"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-18 18:11:26 UTC 72.6K followers, 3024 engagements

"I'm so old I wrote that That's assuming it's the Windows version which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game art and original code were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT converted the x86 asm to C made it work on RISC and so on. Success has many fathers and all credit should really go to the original designers. I'm just the fun uncle that brought it to the masses"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-22 23:11:06 UTC 79.9K followers, 4.1M engagements

"@SnazzyLabs I sense a UDM Pro in the midst. Why is your bandwidth limited to 2.5G Is that the hardware NIC limit or do you have IDS/IPS turned one Reason I ask is the UDM Pro can only do IDS/IPS at about 2.5G so it seemed suspicious"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-16 11:20:02 UTC 79.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@OpenInternetFan I think they've added support for open source compression libs which is great. But there are two things: they're still using mine for zip likely for comatibility. And it's totally single threaded as was the style at the time :-)"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-19 18:43:22 UTC 72.6K followers, 5440 engagements

"Years ago I wrote the original Windows Task Manager and for the last week or so I've been tinkering on a new CPU monitoring visualization tool. I want to create virtual display panels in this style that show the CPU stats. I started on the PDP-11 then the VAX and now I've added x64 and MacOS/ARM as well. So the plumbing is in place but I lack any art skills And so I'm looking for an artist who loves the classic audio VFD display aesthetic and who can produce HTML/CSS content replicating it If you're interested please drop me a message RT if you're in artistic circle :-)"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-18 18:19:46 UTC 79.9K followers, 11.4K engagements

"Each of these boards costs $52800. This is what the largest single memory board at 128MB looked like in 1993 back when I started. This is for a DEC VAX 4000. It could carry four of them if you had a a quarter million dollars to spare. My own dev machine (a 486DX266) had only 8MB at the time"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 16:42:47 UTC 79.9K followers, 66.9K engagements

"@wildbarestepf Being rich is super easy too. Just spend less"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-11 18:48:25 UTC 72.6K followers, 295.1K engagements

"You don't miss Blockbuster. You miss being XX years younger when you used to take a weekly trip with the family and then watch a movie together"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-14 23:18:48 UTC 72.6K followers, 42.8K engagements

"In my impl which may have been replaced I kept track of the time delta required to do various "atomic" ops like create a file move a file on the same volume copy 10K of data etc. Then I kept a running tally of the average time it had taken so far for each of those. And it would multiply those times by forward work to be done. It was wildly inaccurate in some cases dead on in others"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-16 16:50:36 UTC 72.6K followers, 45.2K engagements

"Adding a new syscall to the UNIX kernel today and I got stuck for hours trying to invoke it. Can you see the bug and why it matters WRONG: .globl _wait_for_panel _wait_for_panel: sys XX rts pc / return result in r0 RIGHT: .globl _wait_for_panel _wait_for_panel: sys XX. rts pc / return result in r0"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-22 22:07:11 UTC 79.9K followers, 24.3K engagements

"@Kimi_Moonshot Can it run under ollama I could sure install it if it does Let me know"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-11 18:40:43 UTC 72.7K followers, 6829 engagements

"@RealJamesWoods If the administration squanders its credibility by suppressing the Epstein files no one cares what "else" they come up with as a distraction"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-20 15:08:40 UTC 72.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@hquest Usually you'd take up juggling or some other way to kill the time. Once we had multitasking systems though you can continue to do work (editing etc) while compiling. But on a micro or MS-DOS PC your machine was all in when assembling code and you had to wait on it"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-18 17:32:29 UTC 78K followers, XX engagements

"Well ahktually it produces an AC waveform so it's an alternator not a generator"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-14 02:05:34 UTC 79.5K followers, 57.6K engagements

"@RealHickory Is she going to release the Epstein files"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 16:08:26 UTC 78.5K followers, XX engagements

"@DonaldJTrumpJr But didn't the Epstein investigation begin under the Bush Republicans How could it be a Democrat scam"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-18 14:07:34 UTC 79.8K followers, 31.4K engagements

"@catturd2 What Epstein files Look it's Hillary"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-20 14:58:26 UTC 72.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Perhaps for the lower XX% of the population by intellect it's compellng content. And you only need XX% to win an election. Gotta know your audience"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 15:49:22 UTC 79.9K followers, 12.5K engagements

"I bet I had multiple monitors before you Back in 1995 when I was working NT Datyona (3.51) we got the early support that ultimately shipped in NT X. Of course it you had a Mac they had it even earlier If I recall the earliest NT setups required a Matrox card I wonder if @virtuallyfun remembers the details"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 19:35:16 UTC 79.9K followers, 31.4K engagements

"I've been married XX years. When we got married we agreed that as the husband I would make all the big decisions and my wife would make all the small decisions. It's worked out great I'm just surprised there have never been any big decisions"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-23 18:39:50 UTC 79.9K followers, 1.4M engagements

"I am but ironically I never wrote a Windows app before joining Microsoft. I was all Amiga and UNIX at the time. I had wanted to tinker but the SDK cost $XXX at the time which was more than vehicle I was driving"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-19 18:46:02 UTC 79.9K followers, 27.1K engagements

"Still does. Today coca leaves are imported into the U.S. by Stepan Company (New Jersey) which is the only facility authorized by the DEA to import and process coca leaves. They are decocanized and used for the flavor"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-17 12:58:42 UTC 79.9K followers, 19.8K engagements

"@TheCartelDel Target stores make a profit"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-22 14:17:52 UTC 79.9K followers, 3255 engagements

"If you've ever been curious how many results this thing could find the answer is 10000. It was a hard-coded limit at one time"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 15:42:19 UTC 79.9K followers, 50.1K engagements

"Some more Windows Pinball Trivia follow for more random dev recollections The version that shipped in Windows before XP had a pretty serious bug - the game had no frame rate cap and I had never added one. After all if youre playing pinball you want it smooth :-) As PCs became faster it was eventually drawing 1000 frames a second and using the entire CPU core to do it. So Raymond Chen added a much-needed rate limiter on it. Some have noted that the physics are different. As far as I know Mike Sandige did the original physics engine and its something I kept entirely and just wrapped into a"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-23 16:04:30 UTC 79.9K followers, 19.5K engagements

""It looks like you're trying to write an X post.""
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-17 17:25:02 UTC 79.9K followers, 14.5K engagements

"This is me in my Microsoft office in 1995 working on she Windows Shell and Task Manager. Who knows why there's a dollar pinned to the corkboard"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 16:27:08 UTC 79.9K followers, 102.7K engagements

"I wanted to learn turbocharging and engine management but I didn't really want to build a car around it on my first attempt. So I built this intead. I took a GM ZZ502 short block Trick Flow 340cc heads and went shopping on eBay for cheap Chinese turbo parts. I found the two turbos an air-water intercooler blowoff valves wastegates and everything else I needed for under $1500. This was pre-tariffs. We strapped it to my buddy's engine dyno and it made 1200hp and 1500ft-lb before running out of fuel pressure. With EFI and turbocharging you have to bias the fuel pressure by the amount of boost."
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-19 18:55:54 UTC 79.9K followers, 9577 engagements

"@charliekirk11 Big talk from someone making a living on twitter"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 16:07:49 UTC 79.9K followers, 3556 engagements

"pulled up to this insane EDM boat rave on fridaymy literal spawn @itspoolaid was on deck melting faces w/ the filthiest drops vibes were maxed crowd was feral beats were full send. we were out on the water catching seattle sunset glow while the bass physically rearranged my spine now u know what i do when not coding translated via @groks certified Dad-to-GenZ filter so ur ears dont bleed 💀🔥🛥🌅"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 19:48:16 UTC 79.9K followers, 14.9K engagements

"@fbmrqs Hi Fabio What I'm looking for is someone who once we agree on what it should look like can produce the art files needed for a programmer to implement it Feel free to point me at any of your work that might give me a sense"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-18 18:30:06 UTC 72.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Success And I wrote my first BSD UNIX kernel api today: sys_wait_for_panel_update() I wanted to add a virtual panel to a real PDP that did not have a real one. To that end I added code to the power line clock interrupt to save the CPU state XX times a second. It then signals a sync object. The api I added allows you to wait for the next available panel update without busy-waiting or polling. When the api returns you have fresh data and a client app on the user side sends that data to the panel server at 60fps. The panel server proxies the data over to the web server running the panel"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-22 22:22:56 UTC 79.9K followers, 22.9K engagements

"Paid performances such as sports should be compensated based on the ticket sales and media licensing. The NBA: Net revenue after non-player expenses / active players: $4080000000 XXX $XXXX million profit per player The WNBA: Lost $50000000 / XXX players = $320500 loss per player"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-20 15:27:21 UTC 79.9K followers, 14.3K engagements

"@grok wins at programming today. I was chasing a subtle bug that turned out to be processing an octal address as hex in a sscanf line. Claude couldn't see it. ChatGPT had no ideas. Grok got it the very first time"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-20 20:23:53 UTC 79.9K followers, XXX engagements

"When I got hired at Microsoft I already had a shareware business on the side and negotiated it into my contract. Microsoft does (or did at the time) get a royalty free license to any patents you create while there but none were involved here. All in all the company was super-gracious about letting me continue on the side stuff and I think it worked out well for all involved"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-19 15:49:44 UTC 72.6K followers, 8438 engagements

"An M1 has been my daily driver for four years. I see no compelling reason to upgrade"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-20 15:03:52 UTC 79.9K followers, 34.5K engagements

"@sola_chad Nope. They started out as Jewish tribal songs and those of the true faiths sing them as they were intended. Why would you need them written down"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-21 16:30:12 UTC 79.8K followers, XXX engagements

"There's a high-pressure area at the base of the windshield cowl that is better than facing forward at the front of the hood"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-18 02:37:48 UTC 79.9K followers, 9198 engagements

"@TechSquidTV Usually plugged in yes. Battery condition says "Normal" and XX% capacity remaining. No swelling :-)"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-20 15:10:48 UTC 72.6K followers, XXX engagements

"@iluminatibot Gatorade won't kill you. There's that"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-14 13:49:58 UTC 72.6K followers, 1795 engagements

"Humans love stimulants. And some people (those with ADHD/asd) love them more than others. Over the years we've had snuff chewing tobacco coffee coca leaves cocaine cigarettes benzedrine amphetamines methamphetamines caffeine pills diet pills (e.g. Dexedrine) Ritalin (methylphenidate) crack cocaine ephedrine energy drinks Adderall modafinil and more. Inhaling the burning tar-infused cellulose from a plant is a pretty lethal way to do it. Vaping is a very effective way to deliver a drug straight to the bloodstream but I don't know what the substantiated long-term risks are. Best to stick with"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-18 17:54:26 UTC 79.9K followers, 12.8K engagements

"Win98 Plus was the first software I ever sold to Microsoft. I wrote the ZIP file extension as a side project and a few months later got a call from Microsoft business development that they wanted to talk about an acquisition. It turned out they didn't know I already worked there Which made negotiations interesting. Long story short I took the offer bought a used Chevy and you still have the same zip file handing XX years later"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-19 15:33:46 UTC 79.9K followers, 124.9K engagements

"My CPU It's a DEC KA694 from a VAX4000-705A. It runs at 112MHz and is about 95x as fast as the original VAX 11/780"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-20 15:38:25 UTC 79.9K followers, 13.2K engagements

"@T00ManyCommies I grew up without PBS or NPR and I'm pretty confident I could pass your class"
@davepl1968 on X 2025-07-22 23:07:04 UTC 79.8K followers, XXX engagements

"How I spent 1996: My boss wandered into my office and said "Hey Dave do you want to rewrite pinball for Windows NT". I said "Hell ya" and got paid to write and play pinball for two months. while listening to Soundgarden. And kudos to the original designers for a classic"
@davepl1968 on X 2023-07-25 18:18:52 UTC 79.3K followers, 2M engagements