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Petroglyphs: Art or Writing?

http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2006/petroglyphs.html

Formerly, our modern computers mostly used alphbetic instructions. Today we see a rather standardized set of icons that have replaced many of those words. Which do you prefer, Win
Native American tradition combined with scientific decoding methods indicate that rock art is really a sophisticated form of writing.

SmithForth

https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/

A Forth for x86-64 personal computers David Smith 2022 david.a.c.v.smith@gmail.com New: Check out Andrei Duma's explanation of SmithForth ! He has implemented in RISC-V the machin

Using the KVM API [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/658511/

In some respects computers can be quite depressing: mostly re-inventing the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-assisted_virtualiz... Sure, they're now much faster... to cr
Many developers, users, and entire industries rely on virtualization, as provided by software l [...]

The Andrew Turnbull Network: A portal to hopelessly disparate topics

http://www.andrewturnbull.net/

was an OS for personal computers, with the user in full and complete control. Yet, I also remember Win95 as the beginning of the end for the PC as an open, OS-agnostic platform. P

Kernel Planet

https://planet.kernel.org/

There are far more computers in the world than performance engineers to tune them, leaving most running untuned and wasting resources. In future there will be AI performance agent

Wii U Architecture | A Practical Analysis

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/wiiu/

yet, three independent computers: Firstly, we’ve got DRC-WUP which is a System-on-Chip (SoC) hiding yet-another ARM926EJ-S (the same one from the Wii , how many of these do they h
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally

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

https://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2009_01/article4/

https://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2009_01/article4/

provided by NeXT Computers, costing several hundred dollars, and a Free Software implementation from the GNU project. A third implementation, the Portable Object Compiler translat

The unix programming environment

http://www.talisman.org/unix/burgess-guide.html

well on large scale computers (with many processors) and small computers which fit in your suitcase! All of the basic mechanisms required of a multi-user operating system are pres

Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science

http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/

and powerful desktop computers, which let people simulate and visualize CAs. There was a school of thought --- obscure, but surprisingly widely known --- which, following the phys

Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

https://apple-tree.life/~michael/blog/2000/

how much I've spent on computers over the last few years, grief. 2000-12-09: Saturday Up early, off to Church, practice for wedding. Guy arrived, paced up and down ( very therapea

Server Operating Systems Technical Comparison

http://www.osdata.com/

Text Book Programming computers using any programming language free book on UNIX/Linux System Administration Teach Yourself UNIX/Linux System Administration and Shell Programming
A technical answer to the question: how does Rhapsody stack up as a server operating system?


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