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Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me

https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

“why should we worry, computers are fast enough”: @tveastman : I have a Python program I run every day, it takes 1.5 seconds. I spent six hours re-writing it in rust, now it takes
Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

Essence and Accident in Unix Tradition

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch20s01.html

to those of the minicomputers, workstations, and servers on which Unix matured. The true challenge was a change in the potential market for Unix; the much lower overall price of t

The Nascom Home Page

http://www.nascomhomepage.com/#TheNascomRepository/mon/mbasic/The

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

TinkerDifferent

https://tinkerdifferent.com/

line of notebook computers, sold between 1991 and 2006. 265 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.

HP Computer Museum

https://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=242

Desktops Early Calc and Computers (1968) 98X5 Computers (1975) 80 Series (1980) 200 Series (1981) 500 Series (1982) Handheld (1983) Integral (1984) 300 Series (1985) 400 Series (1
The museum of HP computers is a collection of HP computing products introduced between 1966 and 1991. The museum contains: calculators, desktop computers, computer systems, tape dr

XML Pointer Language (XPointer)

https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xptr-19980303

. Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Chicago, Oxfor

How to Build a Low-tech Website? | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/

shorten the lifetime of computers — larger websites require more powerful computers to access them. This means that more computers need to be manufactured, which is a very energy-

net.tech

http://www.kushaldave.com/nettech.htm

offers viewpoints on computers and society. Newslinx offers daily web news. Hotwired has some excellent resources regarding web tools at its Webmonkey and Packet sections. Tech Ta

Anshul Gandhi

http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~anshul/

IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, Performance Evaluation, Annals of Operations Research, Operations Resear

The Nascom Home Page

http://www.nascomhomepage.com/#TheNascomRepository/pdf/Keys/mon/nassys1.txt

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

THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING

https://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/

of the Department of ComputerScience at Virginia Tech , and is sponsoredin part by a grant from the National ScienceFoundation ( CDA-9312611 ). This site has been chosen by " Edu-

List of archived operating systems | OS Archive

http://osarchive.sda1.eu/

Distribution for old computers. DeLi stands for "Desktop Light" and this distribution runs on runs even on 486 PCs! This distro can be used for desktop usabe - It includes email c


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