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The Rekursiv: The forgotten 1988 processor that was decades ahead of its time

Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory a

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negroniventurestudios.com·Hacker News: Front Page·2mo ago·15 min read

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

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nicole.express6mo ago

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.fr6mo ago

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

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dfarq.homeip.net6mo ago

Technical Analysis of DOS Memory Management: Evolution and Hidden Complexities

The memory management in DOS is simple, but that simplicity may be deceptive. There are several rather interesting pitfalls that programming documentation often does not mention.

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os2museum.com·Hacker News: Front Page·6mo ago·11 min read

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·7mo 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·7mo ago·10 min read

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

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fqa.9front.org8mo ago

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

a website about computers, mostly

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systemstack.dev8mo ago

Early Macintosh Development: The Floppy Disk Bottleneck Challenge

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folklore.org8mo ago

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

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tomshardware.com9mo ago

Analysis of Rediscovered 1973 Fourth Edition Research Unix Source Code

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spinellis.gr9mo ago

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

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mastodon.sdf.org10mo 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.org·Hacker News: Front Page·10mo ago·11 min read

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

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firstmicroprocessor.com10mo ago

History and Technical Overview of the IRIX Operating System

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sgistuff.net10mo ago

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

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int10h.org10mo 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.com10mo ago

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The Rekursiv: The forgotten 1988 processor that was decades ahead of its time

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