The Casio Loopy is a 32-bit machine with a SuperH CPU, released in 1995. This family of CPUs is probably more famous for its use by Sega, but the SH7201 used in the Loopy appears to be still in production by Renesas. I’m not sure how much the SH7201 has changed over that time; it seems to be an SH-1 system, as opposed to the SH-2 used in the 32X and Saturn, and the SH-4 used in the Dreamcast.
The Loopy is a treasure. If you’ve never heard of this thing before – you’re in for a treat.
If I had a bunch of money, I would probably burn it creating little boards around obscure processors.
Or maybe that’s the dopamine rush from the coffee kicking in. Who knows?
I’d be more than willing to help with a quad CPU J11-based PDP-11
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Unfortunately, I don’t have the technical ability to design and build boards or the money to pay people to design and build boards. 🙁
Why a PDP-11? No one has explained this to me, and I’m not sure what makes the processor unique compared to others.
I’m going to get some lottery tickets. I’ll be back.
It’s less that it’s unique, but more that it’s the originator. It inspired a lot of things, from hardware to software. For example, the M68k used in many 32-bit machines of the late 80’s and early 90’s is almost essentially a 32-bit PDP-11. RT-11 and RSX-11 were the OSes that largely inspired CP/M, and as a result, MSDOS. That’s barely scratching the surface of the significance that the PDP-11 had on modern computing
Ah okay. Thanks!
The PDP/11 was basically the main development target for early C and Unix.
C is basically a portable PDP assembler.
And just about every major processor architecture in the past 4 decades has been designed around the assumption that they will be executing C-code.
Which basically means just about every major commercial processor is, at its heart, a very fast PDP.
Seratonin and dopamine act very differently depending on whether you have an OS powered by testosterone or oestrogen. This past few weeks I’ve read a few essays and academic papers this and learning to optimise your life productivity in a healthy way and drug addiction, and they’re very closely connected.
As for the article…
There’s a few cultural differences and equality issues buried in there. It’s actually really difficult to unpack because you need comparative studies of what are even today “legacy” very male dominated societies. Japan can be a very hierarchical and conservative countryhence some foot in mouth politicians talking about “baby factories” as well as there being pushback from modern Japanese women who dislike their appearance and careers being dictated by Japanese men’s tastes for demure infantilised women..
Diverting away from the Anglo-American and Japanese world after reading about the girls clothing dress up game French women tend to be taught how to create a mix and match “capsule wardrobe” by their mothers fairly young as well as buying the very best quality she can afford. The French look especially makeup is quite understated. I have two wardrobes heaving with clothes which need a severe trim so need to put more thought into it myself.
For anyone with the time you can look into human geography, culture, and even food which isn’t unrelated.
There’s always the dangers of condescension and cultural imperialism when judging other societies by our own modern Western standards. Our ideas of “equality” might be different from theirs, but not necessarily better, or even correct.
I just enjoyed the technical aspects of the article, without judging or or being triggered by their unique cultural aspects.
I’m sourcing my broad comments from media and academic essays on equality as well as Japanese media and Japanese women’s comment reported by media. I know men’s eyes glaze over when they read this stuff if they ever do read it but I’m not pulling my comments out of nowhere.
I’m always suspicious of opinion which says it’s focusing on the pure technical and making on the surface neutral comment about the other aspects. I’ve found it’s a usually male cop out. In fact I recall one online conversation 1-2 years ago where I began a topic on something related to equality at a time when most of the mainstream UK media had been choked with it for the past year. Every single man on the forum without exception acted like it had never happened and began demanding explanations or putting on displays of feeling uncomfortable with the topic. Every single last one of them. Now they were mostly “pale male and stale” (not a meme I like but it’s there and everyone knows what it means) with conservative belief systems and too lazy to read around the subject or go check for themselves but even so. You’d think they would have half a clue or be open minded or inquisitive enough to find out for themselves but no.
My eyes glaze over at tech. Been there, done that. I don’t have the fetish for tech men have. I like understanding how things work and repairing things and creating my own things but “tech” is otherwise dead to me. There’s nothing new about this tech I haven’t heard dozens of times over. There’s no thrill in there for me.
What does interest me is the human narrative. The stories, the cultures, the different points of view. Little to nothing of that is contained in this article. It’s all stuff you won’t get from staring at a box of bolts. Mostly because although simple in some ways it’s quite a complex subject which takes thinking through and consideration of tone and emphasis which very likely is beyond the ability or interest of the author.
Am I triggered or judging? Not particularly. Merely commenting on my own observations and feelings of that and explaining the whys and wherefores of that..
HollyB,
As a male, I feel that I am being associated with something I wasn’t a party to. Can you link to whatever it is you are referring to?
I can understand your opinion, but honest question here: why join an online tech forum like osnews?
>> “I know men’s eyes glaze over when they read this stuff… Every single last one of them… were mostly “pale male and stale”
There is a deep bias and lack of self awareness for someone concerned with issues of race and gender in these statements, which are both racist and sexist.
I do come here for technical content and to read the comments of those who are more knowledgeable on those topics than I am, not for others to assume my gender or my ethnicity just because I am technology minded (you might be surprised!).
I’m not interested in dealing with people who withhold formation nor filling in the blanks for people who don’t keep up on the media or science or other informative developments. Not one of you has spoken to the content and if the commentary and reasons I have given myself are not good enough for you they never well be so I will decline to continue unless you have your own through and well reasoned commented on the topic material itself which so far I doubt otherwise you would have said it already.
HollyB,
HollyB, I want to be sensitive to your point(s) of view, but you are withholding information explaining what you are talking about. It’s not possible for me or anyone to speak out against an event when you won’t tell us what the event was. It doesn’t make sense to judge all of us over an event we aren’t aware of any more than it would make sense to judge you over an event that you are not aware of.
If you don’t want to talk about it, that’s ok. But passing judgment without the benefit of knowing what we’ve been judged on suggests the judgement is more of a stereotype.
@aflam
I’ve taken care to caveat that particular reference so not sterotyping men and it’s indicative I am aware of the complexity of perspectives around the issue. It’s not a straightforward field as multiple perspectives an experiences and realities are experienced and the manual for this is almost always never produced by organisations or other individuals with duties of care. You also have to get into systems as organisations and group behaviour come with their own faults and biases and dynamics. Incidents are not always black and white ad may involve the collection of a broad spectrum of direct and indirect evidence over a period of time. See also: “he said she said” and “constructive dismissal” cases, organisational corruption, and gang behaviour.
It’s a comment not an essay and meant to be read as such and as you may now appreciate not a quick and easy topic to discuss. In fact not at all easy.
HollyB,
You are still making it impossible for us to know what incident(s) you are talking about and why you made those accusations against all males. But I guess maybe you were just blowing off steam and it doesn’t have much to do with us here. If I am wrong and you care to discuss it, I think it’s reasonable to ask you to provide specifics.
@Alfman
You need to separate the general from the specific and apply your own judgment. I’m not making a scene of it simply painting an illustrative generic abstract.
There have indeed been examples of toxic “male pattern behaviour” on here but they were dealt with at the time and I see no reason to dwell on them. Offline I’ve experienced at least once incident during this past week of unprofessional “male pattern behaviour” which will generate a complaint against that individual. He may actually just have been a dick anyway. I’ve experienced dick-ish behaviour in the workplace before and those guilty of it were sanctioned. In fact only today there was an offline incident and I sent him away with a flea in his ear. It didn’t stop him escalating and being pushy and acting in bad faith before playing the victim and making threats. That’s another complaint going in. Online I’ve had some twerp abusing messages to demand filthy sex talk. Like he’s going to get anywhere… Still, it makes a change from dick pics. Only a few months ago I was walking to the shopping centre and had a car driver shout a very rapey comment as he drove past. My crime? Wearing a posh jacket and skirt and hosiery.
I’m not a fan of nor do I use the snarky “What about the menz” retort but I’m always suspicious of “white nights” because this is psychologically disabling for women, as confirmed by academic studies, and I always wonder what they’re after.
Not all men are dicks and not all men are sexual harassers. Some are. It’s almost always a minority but like all reckless and irresponsible immature minorities they can have a disproportionate presence as well as having a large sway on crime figures and negative impact public policy especially in the UK while it has an alt-right populist government in power.
Anyway, this is a diversion from the mainline of the topic and you should already know all of this.
HollyB,
Well, that’s what a stereotype is.
Sure, we’ve all seen toxicity. It is an issue that warrants a civil discussion but I think calling it “male pattern behavior” comes across as too sexist. IMHO that creates unnecessary barriers to a productive dialog with people who would otherwise agree with you about toxic culture.
Yes, this is what I was getting at: don’t use too broad a bush to attribute guilt.
Oh my, that was an unfortunate typo.
I’m not having you wordsmith this topic branch into men being the victim so going to walk away and leave you to it.
HollyB,
Not trying to make a big deal of it, but why is it ok to stereotype men in your comments? I honestly think you would take offense to that if it were the other way around.
Anyways, we don’t have to discuss it, keep in mind you did bring it up in a public discussion forum. Onwards to other topics, till then 🙂
No sorry Alfman you don’t get to make that claim cost free. You’re the one asking the questions and backseat driving the conversation into traps. I’ve replied in good faith and very very doubtful of yours. You’re not even making an effort and if you think tacking a smile on excuses this you could not be more wrong. I’d go so far as to say you know it.
HollyB,
No it wasn’t “a trap”, it’s an observation. I really have no interest in painting males as victims either, I just want to point out the elements of hypocrisy that IMHO ultimately impede discussions on equality.
I’m genuinely trying to be civil, HollyB. You responded to devloop using male stereotypes, I tried getting specific clarifications, but you clarified that you only wish to talk in terms of those general stereotypes. I honestly don’t see the benefit of using stereotypes to discuss this topic but what would you have me do differently so that these discussions can go more amicably?
I have macOS and Fedora. ???
I’m working on the caffeine thing. It’s too easy to get really good coffee where I’m at, and people keep giving me really good beans. 🙂
Any links to share?
Anthropology is really interesting, and things cultures make really does signify what they value.
An interesting story is about the 3.5L Buick aluminum block V8 Rover bought from GM in the ’60s. The Rover engineers were complaining about a valve shim having to be replaced at 100,000 miles, and they were complaining very loudly about it. The GM engineer, who was helping them evolve the design, couldn’t understand what the fuss was about since it was a $0.35 part. He never did figure out why the Brits were complaining about it.
I don’t personally drink coffee only tea with milk and no sugar although do like coffee and cream with sugar when I visit a cafe or restaurant sans pandemic.
I have compiled links but don’t have them to hand as I haven’t transferred them to my database. the issue of seratonin and dopamine to enhance enjoyment and performance is “smart” training. It’s about realising these are very powerful influencers and being careful not to chase the high but consciously adjust behaviour so positive and well managed habits are formed not positively reinforced destructive habits.
As for women and dopamine higher levels of oestrogen usually around the end of a woman’s cycle and dopamine are associated with drug addiction. Oestrogen and dopamine reinforce each other so a positive subjective experience while oestrogen levels are high can capture the normal reward experience. This is why it’s harder for women to come off drug addictions especially when the dopamine reward centres have been stimulated during high oestrogen levels. Seratonin burnout is why women can mentally crash. Women hammer seratonin when helping or engaging with others and it doesn’t leave a lot for themselves.
Women also have more “mirror neurons” than men. Mirror neurons are associated with “learning by observation” and empathy. This may also play a role in hijacking judgement. At the high oestrogen end of the cycle women also have more synapses than men as they grow and decay depending on oestrogen levels. Yes, a woman near the end of her cycle is technically smarter than she is the following week. Oestrogen also stimulates the pituitary gland to produce more oxytocin the so called “happiness drug”. Women have a magnitude more oxytocin than men do by default.
Supplementary information is: “Runners high”is actually cannaboids not seratonin or dopamine or opiates so more anti-inflammatory than anything else. Diet, exercise, and hormone levels are related in both men and women as is the distribution of visceral versus subcutaneous fat. Health in mid life is a good predictor of health in later life including quality of life and life expectancy.
Men are better at telling stories than women. Women are better with autobiographical histories.
None of the above is to be interpreted in isolation.
I’ve watched a fair few Youtubes covering various histories including the companies and engine you mention and others. It helps fill in a view of how the world was and the past 50+years of politics and change. I think passion and tangibilty matter even if corporations and computer technology has squeezed this out in recent years. It’s never just about the “tech”. Humans are emotional animals and the truth is often more complex and interesting otherwise we might as well all sit about reading the telephone directory.