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John Savard's Home Page

http://quadibloc.com/desk.htm

giving a history of computers in general, and the microcomputer revolution in particular. This page has now been considerably expanded, with the addition of numerous illustrations

TinkerDifferent

https://tinkerdifferent.com/

line of notebook computers, sold between 1991 and 2006. 263 2.5K Sub-forums Sub-forums Macintosh Portable PowerBook (68k-based) PowerBook (PowerPC-based) PowerBook G3 & iBook
A community of tinkerers dedicated to vintage computing.

Kermit - What is it?

https://kermitproject.org/kermit.html

for many types of computers that implements that protocol as well as other communication functions ranging from terminal emulation to automation of communications tasks through a

The C10K problem

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

is a big place now. And computers are big, too. You can buy a 1000MHz machine with 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $1200 or so. Let's see - at 20000 clien

Collected Essays, by Rudy Rucker

https://www.rudyrucker.com/transrealbooks/collectedessays/

A Brief History of Computers Games, Intelligence, Enlightenment Adventures in Gnarly Computation Web Mind Lifebox Immortality Selling Your Personality The Great Awakening Everythi

Great Works in Programming Languages

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml

1974. Reprinted in Computers for Artificial Intelligence Applications, (eds. Wah, B. and Li, G.-J.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Angeles, 1986, pp. 68-73. [ bib ] Peter&

The Writings of Leslie Lamport

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html

On Programming Parallel Computers Parallel Execution on Array and Vector Computers Multiple Byte Processing with Full-Word Instructions The Synchronization of Independent Processe

Flatpak Is Not the Future

https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

root devices of modern computers. Built-in storage has in fact been shrinking. Software has gotten so much slower and more bloated that operating systems no longer run acceptably

Bit permutations

http://programming.sirrida.de/bit_perm.html

as was done on ancient computers. Today only base 2 (i.e. bits) is used, and this is what is crucially needed for all bit operations. If signed numbers are present, it is assumed
An essay about bit permutations in software

S.U.P.E.R. - The Largest 200LX Software Archive

http://mizj.com/

use on PC-compatible computers. It emulates 8080/8085/Z80 processors and provides terminal emulation for most CP/M machines. CP/M programs are fully integrated into the DOS enviro
The Palmtop Network's SUPER Site is the largest collection of Hewlett-Packard 200LX palmtop computer software on the Internet.

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http://larch-www.lcs.mit.edu:8001/~corbato/turing91/

as more and more computers are tailored for special applications and for parallelism. Complicating matters too is that parallelism is not a solution for every problem. Certain cal

PulkoMandy's home on the web

http://pulkomandy.tk/

rarely used in modern computers. Instead we will consider that the elements are stored next to each other, in consecutive memory addresses. This results in the following definitio


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