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What's New! December 1993

http://home.mcom.com/home/whatsnew/whats_new_1293.html

texts for humans and computers, has released their 100th e-text: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare . Also of note is their first MIDI file: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in

We Need to Bring Back Webrings | Lobsters

https://lobste.rs/s/foo1n7/we_need_bring_back_webrings

like me miss is that computers and the Internet don't have the same emotional place in the minds of Gen Z. For us, it was the future. Something the previous generation didn't unde
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Infrequently Noted

https://infrequently.org/

phones — indeed, most computers — are 24+ month old Androids. This is the result of a price segmented market: a preponderance of smartphones sold for more than $600USD (new, unloc
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Computer Future

http://DaveFAQ.com/Opinions/Consumer_Computing.html

available with todays computers. Many of them are also available, just not at full speed yet (such as full video generation, 'flawless' voice recognition) and will be available wi

Adaptec RAID cards are junk

http://www.nickh.org/warstories/adaptec.html

and changing cards in computers. Of course, hasn't been an issue for me...well, ever. I like hardware. It's something of a pain, though, as we basically have to rebuild the box fr

ICANN readies to auction off the English language

https://www.templetons.com/brad/dns/sell-english.html

a trademark for "Apple Computers" and another for "Apple Records" but none for just "Apple" or "Apple Orchards." Ownership rights are granted in the specific industries but never

The Nascom Home Page

http://nascomhomepage.com/

on and I bought more computers but didn't stop using my CP/M Nascom 2/Gemini hybrid system until I bought my first PC (around 1994). However thanks to CP/M emulators and vnascom I

Jeff Duntemann's ContraPositive Diary

http://www.duntemann.com/june2008.htm

what home users do with computers. (I suspect that the rest is a combination of media players, IM, photo managers, and games.) And within those apps, 20% of the features do 80%&#1

The Craft of Text Editing

https://www.finseth.com/craft/

predated most personal computers and workstations. There had even been a chapter in an early draft that attempted to prove that it was not possible to implement an Emacs-type text

OS-9 Frequently Asked Questions

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pruyne/os9faq.html

to large multiuser minicomputers. Originally developed for the 6809 microprocessor, OS-9 was a joint effort between Microware and Motorola. The original version of OS-9 (OS-9 Leve

The Machine Fired Me

https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me

a good knowledge of computers would be important. This is not entirely true, it is akin to saying that in order to learn to drive you need roads therefor you need a good knowledge
When computers handle big life altering decisions in a company, there needs to be an override for humans to take over. Otherwise, well, they fire employees.

100R — working offgrid efficiently

http://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html

energy to power our computers. By looking at the forecast, we can determine when we will get the most work done: consecutive days of sun grant us enough power for video-editing, w


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