уютненький дневничок

Cyrillic Latin     Notes
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А а     A a        Open vowel, like "father".
Б б     B b        Voiced bilabial stop.
В в     V v        Voiced labiodental fricative.
Г г     G g        Voiced velar stop.
Д д     D d        Voiced alveolar stop.
Е е     Ë ë        Iotated "e", like "yes". Implies iotization (including glide) initially/after vowels; palatalizes preceding consonant.
Ё ё     Ö ö        Iotated "o", like "yoke". Implies iotization (including glide) initially/after vowels; palatalizes preceding consonant.
Ж ж     Ž ž        Voiced retroflex fricative, like "measure".
З з     Z z        Voiced alveolar fricative.
И и     I i        Close front vowel, like "machine". Palatalizes preceding consonant.
Й й     J j        Palatal approximant, like "yes". Used explicitly in diphthongs or where "й" appears.
К к     K k        Voiceless velar stop.
Л л     L l        Alveolar lateral; softness implied by following vowel.
М м     M m        Bilabial nasal.
Н н     N n        Alveolar nasal; softness implied by following vowel.
О о     O o        Mid-back vowel, like "or" (unstressed reduces).
П п     P p        Voiceless bilabial stop.
Р р     R r        Trilled alveolar, like Spanish "rr".
С с     S s        Voiceless alveolar fricative.
Т т     T t        Voiceless alveolar stop.
У у     U u        Close back vowel, like "boot".
Ф ф     F f        Voiceless labiodental fricative.
Х х     H h        Voiceless velar fricative, like Scottish "loch".
Ц ц     C c        Voiceless alveolar affricate, like "tsar".
Ч ч     Č č        Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate, like "cheese" but softer.
Ш ш     Š š        Voiceless retroflex fricative, like "sh" in "ship".
Щ щ     Ş ş        Long voiceless palato-alveolar fricative, like "fresh cheese".
Ъ ъ     '          Indicates hard consonant separation; apostrophe for juncture.
Ы ы     Y y        Close central vowel, like "bit" but backer. Hardens preceding consonant.
Ь ь     ´ (acute)  Placed over the consonant (e.g. t́) to indicate palatalization/softening.
Э э     E e        Mid-front vowel, like "bet". Does not palatalize preceding consonant.
Ю ю     Ü ü        Iotated "u", like "you". Implies iotization (including glide) initially/after vowels; palatalizes preceding consonant.
Я я     Ä ä        Iotated "a", like "yard". Implies iotization (including glide) initially/after vowels; palatalizes preceding consonant.

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бь      B́ b́
вь      V́ v́
гь      Ǵ ǵ
дь      D́ d́
зь      Ź ź
кь      Ḱ ḱ
ль      Ĺ ĺ
мь      Ḿ ḿ
нь      Ń ń
пь      Ṕ ṕ
рь      Ŕ ŕ
сь      Ś ś
ть      T́ t́
фь      F́ f́
хь      H́ h́
ць      Ć ć

• Украина → Ukraina
• Киев → Kiëv
• Здравствуйте → Zdravstvujt́e
• Спасибо → Spasibo
• Пиво → Pivo
• Да → Da
• Нет → Ńet
• Борщ → Borş
• Царь → Caŕ
• Щи → Şi
• Я люблю русскую кухню → Ä ĺubĺu russkuü kuhńu
• Щекочихин-Крестовоздвиженский → Şekočihin-Kŕestovozdviženskij

I bought a VAX! As far as I know, it's actually the fastest VAX ever produced, the 4000-705A (before the Alpha, anyway). It uses the KA694 NMAX++ CPU, and I've ordered the maximum 4x128MB memory config to add to it.

I spent the week waiting for it to arrive working in a VAX simulator (OpenSIM), learning NetBSD, getting it all configured, and so on. And when the VAX arrived, I was able to plug in an Emulex UC07 QBus SCSI card, plug a ZULUSCSI into that, plug an SD card into that, and mount the image I had been preparing all week.

And it booted!

I don't want to hurt any feelings amongst the DEC alumni, so I left the factory DSSI drive set up to boot OpenVMS. But it's just a node that's trying to join a non-existent cluster, sadly. Which is just as well, because I never learned VMS 📷

I want the machine to be able to "do something", and so I wanted to get it running my LED driver software that controls all of my LED effects via wifi. The only catch is it's written in C++20, and compiling it on the VAX would take almost a half gig of memory, and I only have 64MB right now.

So, I installed NetBSD on an Epyc, built the VAX cross-compiler, compiled the code on the Epyc, then scp'd the object files to the VAX, where I linked the binary. And it's now running my LEDs! At 100% cpu usage, mind you