On this day in 1911, the Japanese government executed twelve anarchists, including radical journalists Kanno Sugako and Kōtoku Shūsui (shown), as part of a widespread crackdown on left-wing activism. Among those executed were Uchiyama Gudō, a Buddhist priest and socialist who spoke out against the Meiji government for its imperialism and advocated for conscripted soldiers to desert en masse.
The pretext for this crackdown was the "High Treason Incident", a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Japan. The incident began when police searched the room of Miyashita Takichi, a young lumbermill employee, and found materials which could be used to construct bombs, concluding that there was a broader conspiracy to harm the imperial family.
On the basis of this plot, the Japanese government rounded up leftist activists from all over the country. 24 of the 26 defendants actually brought to trial were sentenced to death, despite the evidence against nearly all of them being circumstantial.
Among those executed anarcha-feminist journalist Kanno Sugako (some sources say she was executed on January 25th). At the age of 29, Kanno became the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
Prior to his execution, Kōtoku Shūsui etched this message on the wall of his cell: "How has it come about that I have committed this grave crime? Today my trial is hidden from outside observers and I have even less liberty than previously to speak about these events. Perhaps in 100 years someone will speak out about them on my behalf."
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Computers used to have a turbo button where you could tell it whether to run in turbo mode or not. I am not a crank.
Yeah i was too young to know what it did but my tower had a display with a 2 digit number on it and boooy did that number increase if i hit the turbo button
Fuckkk we need to bring back hardware clock speed indicators that sounds so cool
Or actually make clockless computers
"I need turbo...I need turbo...my computer topped out at 2ghz"
"Amateurs don't use turbo...I've seen the way you game, you've got a heavy hand...you'll blow yourself to pieces"
"I need one of these. One of the big ones. Actually, you know what, let's make it two. And Harry...I need it by tonight"
stg I used to have a CD-ROM drive with a turbo button on it. Not sure what it did but it had a nice clunk when you pushed it in.
Turbo mode was slower, it was to make games that were written with the assumption that processors wouldn't ever get faster still work on newer hardware
It's the other way around isn't it? Turbo mode was the normal operating clock speed of your processor, then you could disable it to run at the same/similar speed of an 8086.
Point is, the speeds it switched between were normal and slow, not normal and fast
True
Just imagining how much effort Intel's engineers put in to make their chips work at tiny fractions of the usual clock speed for backwards compatibility lol
That's the kind of thing you have to do if you want to have the world's dominant chip architecture for decades. Intel tried to replace x86 with Itanuim and failed hard.
Yeahh lol. Wasn't even the first time in some contexts. Remember i960? x86 is a curse upon the whole world, including Intel but it makes them lots of money
I hadn't heard of i960 but reading about it just now also learned about iAPX 432. They've been trying to replace x86 since literally before x86 was even a thing lol.