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"I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."

http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-we-are-slower-than-other-oper/

about by technology and computers will benefit the business exclusively, with none of their benefits being shared with the employee. If productivity doubles, profit doubles, workl
I was explaining on Hacker News why Windows fell behind Linux in terms of operating system kernel performance and innovation. And out of nowhere an anonymous...

John Regehr's Home Page

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/

Teaching Papers Contact Computers are amazingly fun and useful, but why do they crash and hang? Why are they so terrifyingly insecure? The problem is many-faceted, but an importan

The Xerox Star

http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html

communicate with other computers. The Star has the ability to connect to file servers, mail servers, and print servers. It also includes software to emulate TTY terminals and 3270

The computer built to last 50 years

https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

in the cold. Of course, computers are not typewriters. They do a lot more than typewriters. But could we imagine a computer built like a typewriter? A computer that could stay wit
The computer built to last 50 years par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

RFC 8700: Fifty Years of RFCs

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8700.html

community. All of the computers have changed, as have all of the transmission lines, but the RFCs march on. Maybe I'll write a few words for RFC 10,000. ¶ Quite obviously, the cir

Kevin Boone: More like Windows every day

https://kevinboone.me/morelikewindows.html

on desktop and laptop computers in the '90s, long before it became a relatively mainstream thing to do. My first Linux distribution took the form of a shoe-box-sized stack of flop
The ease of installation and use of modern desktop Linux distributions comes at a price. I review a couple of low-complexity alternatives to mainstream Linux distributions: Alpine

userland: a book about the command line for humans

https://p1k3.com/userland-book/

but in the meanwhile computers have become relatively cheap and free software is abundant. If you’re reading this on the web, you can probably get access to a shell. Some op

GEM - Downloads - GEM World Downloads

http://www.deltasoft.com/downloads-gemworld.htm

1000, 1200, and 2000 computers. Version 1.2. DESKTOP v1.3 : 611K GEM Desktop v1.3. DESKTOP v1.4 : 471K GEM Desktop v1.4. DESKTOP v1.5 : 471K GEM Desktop v1.5. DESKTOP v1.6 : 471K

Enquire Manual

https://www.w3.org/History/1980/Enquire/manual/

system involving computers. No assumptions are made about how the breaking up is done -- ENQUIRE imposes no constraints on the high level design. A similar way of describing a str

Michael Tsai - Blog

https://mjtsai.com/blog/

40 years of using computers. So why all of a sudden? It turns out that my initial click in the window corner instinctively happens in an area where the window doesn’t respon

Free as in Freedom: Chapter 1

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html

knew plenty about computers, he was not an expert in translating binary files. As a hacker, however, he had other resources at his disposal. The notion of information sharing was

Web Design - The First 100 Years

https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

engineers lacked the computers to calculate all the bending and wiggling the wings would do if you hung the engines under them, so they just strapped engines on the back. This pla


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