WAV or FLAC & why

Yes, the Files-11 file system used in the RSX-11 operating system on PDP-11s and later on VAX under VAX/VMS maintained file versions, so that versions of a file named login.com might be saved as login.com;1, login.com;2, login.com;3 and so on. Old versions could be deleted using the purge command. Saved my bacon quite a few times when needing to back out edits and it took a while to get used to not having versioning when I switched to Unix.

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Oh, I didnā€™t know that, cheers

Wrote my first program as a schoolboy in Algol. Solved a set of 10 x 10 linear equations using matrix inversion. We only had one go at running our programs (and no opportunity to debug) on a room-sized machine with less processing power than my watch. Amazingly, it worked first time, an occurrence never since repeated.

Roger

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Youngster!

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Couldnā€™t they make their renderer OpenHome or UPnP/DLNA compatible? Then either directly, or through BubbleUPnP server, lots of control points become available. Is that really all that difficult/costly?

Roger

ALGOL, Digital PDP-11, VAX-VMS,ā€¦

Iā€™m not that old afterall ! :joy:

I learned about about the PDP-11 when I was a student at the EPFL.

I saw it in our computer museum! :smile:

Which has now its own webpage : https://www.museebolo.ch/?lang=en

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Iā€™m a qualified PDP-11 system administrator, I found the certificate a few years ago during a tidy-up.

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I do not know but I am very shocked by what @anon4216120 reported.

I cannot easily test dCS (and Chord, etc.) products in Berlin but I really would have liked to demo a dCS Network Bridge at a certain point.

If it is true that the Bartok only supports gapless playback via the dCS app, I am not interested in dCS products any longer.

Well it was not in the first flush of youth when I used it at work, and yes I seem to remember it was largely exchangeable with VAX/VMS.
It was not long after replaced with Sun Microsystem Unix workstations in my organization I seem to rememberā€¦ and I decided to move my career on. ā€¦ :grinning:

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Cheers :slight_smile:

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This is my finding and seems to be agreed by dcs on their forum. If you want gapless then itā€™s dcs app and potentially minimserver for correct album playing.

Yes, Simon, there was a great deal of compatibility between PDP-11 and VAX to make the transition easy for existing customers.

I worked at Digital in Engineering through the Eighties and the heyday of VAX/VMS when Digital was the number two computer company behind IBM and had something like 120,000 employees worldwide at the peak. It was a great place to start your career.

The era of the PDP-11 had passed by 1980, having been supplanted by the 32-bit VAX minicomputer and the VMS virtual memory operating system. I remember an exciting day in 1982 when our group got its VAX-11/780 ā€“ one of the most iconic machines of its time. We had to go up to Heathrow to pick up a memory module specially couriered from the US to push the memory capacity to a massive 32MB. This system supported a team of 30 developers and technical writers.

Apologies to the OP about all the Digital nostalgia!

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Ditto :slight_smile:

tbh I struggled with C++. I persevered for a while but I found the capabilities to override functions just made the code too complex to read.

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Possibly canā€™t say itā€™s a language I ever used or studied.

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Just an update on gapless and dcs and bubble etcā€¦ I know this isnā€™t really the right thread but itā€™s a topic that was touched on here.

I mentioned that there were issues with using the dcs app with Asset as the server. Basically album tracks were played in alphabetical rather than track order. I thought it only fair to point out that the issue seems to have now been sorted. Iā€™m guessing itā€™s an Asset fix in the latest full release rather than change to the dcs app. I still think bubble has the better gui and front end but with the Asset compatibility issue fixed one of my main dcs app issues is resolved and Iā€™m now back to using the dcs mosaic app.

This thread is hilarious! When I started streaming my music it was with a SqueezeBox. This was a dozen years ago, it did gapless after a couple of firmware updates. Then moved to a Sonos it always did gapless. Then a PS Audio Dac with their ā€œBridgeā€ that was a cluster muck that couldnā€™t do gapless or even keep connected. Used a Modified Sonos for a while, then the original Auralic Aries, into the PS Audio Direct Stream Dac; then lastly a Aurrender into a Devialet D200. In 2020 if your stuff canā€™t do gapless out of the box it needs to go back in the box!

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And Minimserver is excellent and really easy to setup. Thereā€™s an easy to understand setup and user guide, a great support forum and Simon Nash can usually be called upon if the forum canā€™t help.

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