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Alternate History: The Apple ][ Computer with Field-Sequential Color Technology

One thing I remain fascinated by is the field-sequential color system. Essentially, unlike composite video, which sacrifices color depth in space, field sequ...

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The Historical Journey of OpenBSD on SGI MIPS Hardware

Interest in supporting the MIPS architecture in BSD is about as old as the architecture itself, and Risc/OS (the Unix variant running on MIPS' own workstations, before MIPS got bought by SGI and stopped manufacturing anything but processors) was based upo

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miod.online.fr4mo ago

AMD's Am386 Release: The Six-Year Delay and Legal Battles with Intel

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dfarq.homeip.net4mo ago

Technical Analysis of DOS Memory Management: Evolution and Hidden Complexities

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os2museum.com4mo ago

Robert Tinney, Byte Magazine's Iconic Cover Illustrator Who Visualized Early Personal Computing, Dies at 78

He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.

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arstechnica.com·Hacker News: Front Page·5mo ago·3 min read

NCR Tower 1632: A 1982 16-bit Computer System Based on Motorola 68000

Tower 1632. You Can Really Grow Attached to It.

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computeradsfromthepast.substack.com·Hacker News: Front Page·5mo ago·10 min read

Introduction to Plan 9: The Research Operating System from Bell Labs

Plan 9 is a research operating system from the same group who created UNIX at Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center (CSRC). It emerged in the late 1980s, and its early development coincided with continuing development of the later versions of Resea

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Jef Raskin's Vision for Humane Computing and the Bay Area Counterculture Tradition

a website about computers, mostly

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systemstack.dev6mo ago

Early Macintosh Development: The Floppy Disk Bottleneck Challenge

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folklore.org6mo ago

AMD's First CPU: The Reverse-Engineered Am9080 That Launched the Company 50 Years Ago

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tomshardware.com6mo ago

Analysis of Rediscovered 1973 Fourth Edition Research Unix Source Code

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spinellis.gr6mo ago

50th Anniversary of BitBLT: The Fundamental Graphics Routine That Enabled Smalltalk's Interface

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mastodon.sdf.org7mo ago

The Decline of Lisp Machines: Why Specialized Hardware Failed

I am just really bored by Lisp Machine romantics at this point: they should go away. I expect they never will....

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tfeb.org8mo ago

Historical Development of the World's First Microprocessor for the F-14A Tomcat Fighter Jet (1968-1970)

Design and development of the World's First Microprocessor. F-14 Tom Cat fighter jet. 1968-1970.

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firstmicroprocessor.com·Hacker News: Front Page·8mo ago·3 min read

History and Technical Overview of the IRIX Operating System

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sgistuff.net8mo ago

Analysis of Newly Discovered 1990 IBM BIOS EPROMs Reveals Potential Unknown PC/AT Model

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int10h.org8mo ago

Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard: How Microsoft's First Hardware Product Enabled CP/M on Apple II Computers

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devblogs.microsoft.com8mo ago

John McCarthy's 1980 Reflections on LISP: Past Successes and Future Improvements

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www-formal.stanford.edu8mo ago

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Alternate History: The Apple ][ Computer with Field-Sequential Color Technology

The Historical Journey of OpenBSD on SGI MIPS Hardware

AMD's Am386 Release: The Six-Year Delay and Legal Battles with Intel

Technical Analysis of DOS Memory Management: Evolution and Hidden Complexities

Robert Tinney, Byte Magazine's Iconic Cover Illustrator Who Visualized Early Personal Computing, Dies at 78

NCR Tower 1632: A 1982 16-bit Computer System Based on Motorola 68000

Introduction to Plan 9: The Research Operating System from Bell Labs

Jef Raskin's Vision for Humane Computing and the Bay Area Counterculture Tradition

Early Macintosh Development: The Floppy Disk Bottleneck Challenge

AMD's First CPU: The Reverse-Engineered Am9080 That Launched the Company 50 Years Ago

Analysis of Rediscovered 1973 Fourth Edition Research Unix Source Code

50th Anniversary of BitBLT: The Fundamental Graphics Routine That Enabled Smalltalk's Interface

The Decline of Lisp Machines: Why Specialized Hardware Failed

Historical Development of the World's First Microprocessor for the F-14A Tomcat Fighter Jet (1968-1970)

History and Technical Overview of the IRIX Operating System

Analysis of Newly Discovered 1990 IBM BIOS EPROMs Reveals Potential Unknown PC/AT Model

Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard: How Microsoft's First Hardware Product Enabled CP/M on Apple II Computers

John McCarthy's 1980 Reflections on LISP: Past Successes and Future Improvements