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Reasoning about the Manned Space Program

https://www.billdietrich.me/ReasonMannedSpaceProgram.html

looking for data on historical cost to orbit over last 50 years or so.] Some say cost-to-orbit is not a major problem: From /u/ethan829 on reddit: I'm not sure how you got the ide
My reasoning about the Manned Space Program and space exploration

Computer Architecture History / CPU History -- Mark Smotherman

https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/hist.html

Selected Historical Computer Designs Welcome to a gallery of fascinating machine designs! I want to collect here information on historical firsts and on important machines that ar

Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups

https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

of the Apollo flight computers and the lunar landing guidance software. Figure 1: The Lunar Module LM-1, also known as Apollo 5, was a 6-hour unmanned mission in earth orbit for t
historical technical paper

Peter Neumann's Home Page

https://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/

Series. It may be of historical interest. A 1996 report, Architectures and Formal Representations for Secure Systems, considers what formal methods can do for system security, and

Spyware Warrior

http://www.netrn.net/spywareblog/

a few links for a historical perspective for your reading pleasure. Oh, and let’s not forget Spamford Wallace , who also played a large role in the scams with his servers at

The Anatomy of a Search Engine

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

day with an obscure historical article which might receive one view every ten years. Clearly, these two items must be treated very differently by a search engine. Another big diff

Getting Windows 3.1x ready for the present and (near) future 1/3

http://stephan.win31.de/w31mm_en.htm#n_gen_arb_sp

1.6.3.2.1 My historical background         1.6.3.2.2 Components         1.6.3.2.3 System requirements / downl
The translated version of a page in German. Written with Netscape 4.08[de] (Win16; I) :).

Rend386 virtual worlds, recreated in VRML

http://devilmaster.altervista.org/rend386.html

convert to VRML those historical Rend386 virtual environments, in order to allow modern users to experience them in stereoscopy and in higher resolutions. VRML environments All th

LinuxMultiSeat

http://www.lightofdawn.org/wiki/wiki.cgi/-wiki/LinuxMultiSeat

another netbook. Historical note Multi-seating isn't new. In days past, people had one large computer (time-sharing system) with multiple video terminals attached to it, sometimes

Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun

https://kevinlynagh.com/rust-zig/

the best they can given historical accidents, conflicting requirements, etc.) Even putting aside this motivational angle, why over the past three years have I struggled to just le

Agile and the Long Crisis of Software

https://logicmag.io/clouds/agile-and-the-long-crisis-of-software/

tasks, complete with historical comparisons and projections.  This was Agile, I learned, a method for managing software development that had achieved enormous popularity in techni
What is Agile? And where does it come from?

Infrequently Noted

https://infrequently.org/

mirror, and so historical Average Selling Prices ( ASPs ) and replacement dynamics now dominate any discussion of fleet performance. Hardware upgrade timelines are elongating. Pre
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.


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