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Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2022219 points53 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details
Welcome back! We are back from our November hiatus and thus back to regular weekly posts! This week we’re going to answer the runner-up question in the last ACOUP Senate poll (polls in which …
The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago this month, 1 so I made some high-res die photos of the chip to celebrate. The ...
"Zanclean Megaflood? What's that, a glam-rock band?"
The history of Kid Pix by Craig Hickman
I was recently interviewed for a piece in the Times on why the philosophy of stoicism has become very popular in the Silicon Valley tech crowd. Only a sliver of my thoughts made it into the article, but the question from Nellie Bowles was very stimulating so I wanted to share more of my thoughts.
Its modern version (the reverse mode of automatic differentiation) was first published in 1970 by Seppo Linnainmaa
The Soviet space program used completely different controls and instruments from American spacecraft. One of the most interesting navigati...
The Crazy Eddie fraud may appear smaller and gentler than the massive billion-dollar frauds exposed in recent times
For those who just came back from a 15 year space mission: Wirecard is a German company that according to its website is ” one of the world’s fastest-growing digital platforms for fina…
DOS on DOPE is the modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of Batch scripts .
I don't work at Naughty Dog, and I don't have any secret knowledge of Jak & Daxter, except what I figured out myself from the disc. So a lot of this may well be wrong. Take a pinch of salt with it.
Learn more about the early days of LAN.
I have previously argued that the Bilski ruling renders all software unpatentable in the US because any method of manipulating information ...
For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right.
I realized recently that while I have written about the history of the about:authors URL , I have never explained the history of the about:jwz easter egg . Well, I guess it's been long enough, so now it can be told.
The question on the lips of everyone in the Linux community is, "What if Linus Torvalds (affectionately known to the trade press as 'Linux Torvalds') gets hit by a bus?" Reams of virtual paper have been wasted on idle speculation about the results of what is a fairly simple experiment. We decided it was high time…
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
SERIES 1 The Vacuum Cleaner The Washing Machine The Sewing Machine The Refrigerator The Central Heating System The Television
I don't actually know this story - certainly no more of it than anyone who has read a few web pages. But luckily, I'm pretty good at making...
Douglas Self,
