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Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)

substack.com

historical mac
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How User Groups Made Software Reuse a Reality | ℤ→ℤ

ztoz.blog

Before the widespread existence of software repositories like CPAN, NPM, and PyPI, developers seeking to reuse...
Before the widespread existence of software repositories like CPAN, NPM, and PyPI, developers seeking to reuse an existing algorithm or library of routines would either check books or journals for code, or, they just might post a classified ad: Request posted in Decuscope 1965, Vol 4/Iss 2 User groups provided catal...

culture historical
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CACM Is Now Open Access – Communications of the ACM

acm.org

compsci historical science
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He Who Controls the Bootloader

birdhouse.org

historical
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Responding to the Year 2000 Challenge: Lessons for Today | IBM Center for The Business of Government

businessofgovernment.org

Editor’s Note: Government at all levels, American society, and the world faced a seemingly insurmountable technology...
Editor’s Note: Government at all levels, American society, and the world faced a seemingly insurmountable technology challenge in the late 1990s that threatened to disrupt civilization. Addressing this challenge required mobilizing a vast response effort, not unlike what we are facing today with the COVID-19 pandemi...

historical law
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Laurence Tratt: Some Reflections on Writing Unix Daemons

tratt.net

historical unix
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2024-02-25 a history of the tty

computer.rip

historical
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Captcha Check

dreamwidth.org

design historical linux
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The Itanic Saga

abortretry.fail

Mikhail Alexanderovich Kartsev was born on the 10th of May in 1923. He was born to...
Mikhail Alexanderovich Kartsev was born on the 10th of May in 1923. He was born to a family in the USSR whose erstwhile occupation was pedagogy. It was a nation newly reborn of revolution at the time. He graduated from high school on the 21st of June in 1941 and the Third Reich invaded the USSR the following day. Ka...

hardware historical
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Fully documented source code for Lander on the Acorn Archimedes - Lander on the Acorn Archimedes

bbcelite.com

assembly historical reversing
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The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it?

jgc.org

historical
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That time I almost added Tetris to htop - hisham.hm

hisham.hm

art historical
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The story of the SSH port is 22.

ssh.com

historical networking
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It Can Be Done

multicians.org

defect prevention historical multics operating system software engineering
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CAP-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky Japanese assembler

oldvcr.blogspot.com

I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really...
I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and useful, you had to do it in 6502 assembly language. Today I still write 6502 assembly, plus some Power ISA and even a little TMS9900. I like assembly languages and how in control of the CPU you feel writing in one. But you ...

assembly hardware historical
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Spectrum Analyser – Colourclash

colourclash.co.uk

historical reversing
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Banyan VINES resurrection - DisNCord Community Wiki

restless.systems

historical networking virtualization
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Method of Differences | ℤ→ℤ

ztoz.blog

historical math
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Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS | datagubbe.se

datagubbe.se

Documented, undocumented, unfinished and useful Early 2024 Table of Contents Got docs? In keeping with the...
Documented, undocumented, unfinished and useful Early 2024 Table of Contents Got docs? In keeping with the Commodore tradition of cost cutting, most consumer models of their Amiga line of computers came with severely watered down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception from this rule, but owners of later machi...

historical osdev
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A captivating summer 2007

fabiensanglard.net

historical ios reversing security
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Sega AI - SMS Power!

smspower.org

Sega AI Computer (セガＡＩコンピューター) Around late 1986, Sega released the “Sega AI Computer”. This is one...
Sega AI Computer (セガＡＩコンピューター) Around late 1986, Sega released the “Sega AI Computer”. This is one of Sega’s least well known and rarest systems. Not much is known about this system apart from a small amount of information in Japanese and American flyers and press articles. The information we have is still piecemeal...

ai games historical
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I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice — Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals

chadaustin.me

emacs historical unix
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Reverse engineering CMOS, illustrated with a vintage Soviet counter chip

righto.com

I recently came across an interesting die photo of a Soviet1 chip, probably designed in the...
I recently came across an interesting die photo of a Soviet1 chip, probably designed in the 1970s. This article provides an introductory guide to reverse-engineering CMOS circuits, using this chip as an example. Although the chip looks like a tangle of lines at first, its large features and simple layout make it pos...

hardware historical reversing
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Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?

stackexchange.com

historical
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