What is free software and why is it so important for society? — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software</tithttps://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software
than one of our own computers in our own home, we could be caught and fined or put in jail. That’s what’s in the fine print of the license agreement you accept when using propriet
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C-Kermit Unix Hints and Tipshttps://www.kermitproject.org/ckubwr.html
them among all types of computers. You can easily turn them off and on when power-cycling seems warranted. They are more likely to have manuals. Internal PC modems (even when they
Brian L. Stuarthttps://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/
to Electronic Analog Computers (HTML) (PostScript) (PDF) Random Thoughts: a blog Museum This picture shows some of the main artifacts in my collection. Click on the picture or her
Floodgap Mosaic-CK: an unsupported updated portof the NCSA Mosaic web browserhttp://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/machten/mosaic/
a bad choice for modern computers which can almost certainly run something more full-featured and compatible. However, its older core is well-suited to older machines and older op
History of IRIXhttps://ryan.thoryk.com/sgi/irix_versions.html
of RISC/os : "MIPS computers running RISC-OS can support four different personalities: default, BSD 4.3, System V.3, and System V.4 (older versions of RISC-OS don't support V
Using CU-See-Me for Internet Videoconferencinghttp://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/bigideas/b9/b9u3l2.html
Macintosh and IBM PC computers. CU-SeeMe uses the MBONE (see Activity 1for a description of this Internet standard) to broadcast and receive videoimages. Because of a limitation i
John Gilmore's home pagehttp://www.toad.com/gnu/
the First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy. I remained quite active in EFF, and served on its Board of Directors for decades, until a spasm of political correctness du
The Nascom Home Pagehttp://www.nascomhomepage.com/#TheNascomRepository/lang/Hpascal.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
(IV.) Foomatic from the Developer's View: How does it work?https://www.openprinting.org/download/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/IV.Foomatic-Developer/IV.tutorial-handout-foomatic-development.html
are operating the computers newbie-friendliness did not have a high priority, too. Unfortunately LPD was used for a very long time, up to even nowadays, but printers changed a lot
All links @ cidoku.nethttp://cidoku.net/en/links/all
friend who likes old computers and cactuses. In Spanish. LiterallyHifumi A personal site and blog about technology, birds, and singing synths. Very interesting is the World Wide W
The Retrocomputing Museumhttp://www.catb.org/retro/
Reduced Instruction Set Computers? Well, here is the concept taken to its logical extreme — an emulator for a computer with just one (1) instruction (Subtract and Branch if
A museum of archaic computer languages
The C10K problemhttp://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
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