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The Command Line In 2004

https://garote.bdmonkeys.net/commandline/

of interacting with computers, wouldn't have occurred to me at the time I was being taken for rides in that MGB. I had signed up to take a computer programming class at Ames High

Installing and Configuring A Windows 98 Network

http://networkers.freeservers.com/win98.htm

to ensure that other computers on the network will recognize it. You install the hardware and software that enables your computer to connect to the network, and then you configure

Hercules

https://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/

that runs mainframe computers is prohibitively expensive.  However, there are older versions of several of IBM's popular operating systems that are now classified as Public D
MVS 3.8j under Hercules: Tutorials and Resources

Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers!

https://dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html

that is, that as computers are becoming increasingly embedded in our world, what the code does, allows, and prohibits, controls what we may or may not do in a powerful way. In par
This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, open source software

https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/amdahl-bio-core-1-4.html

https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/amdahl-bio-core-1-4.html

he began designing computers on his own time. When the Electrical Engineering department heard about this "other" work, Amdahl was encouraged to build a computer that could be use

Understanding Computer Sound

https://forgottencomputer.com/retro/sound/

of sound in home computers is fascinating, and the decade between mid 1980s and mid 90s saw a fierce competition of digital sound representation methods, sound processing chips, a

Computation, Memory, Nature, and Life

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/comp_mem_nat_life/

time I tried to explain computers to non-techies, it was difficult to get across that the much vaunted “computer memory bank” of science fiction was nothing more than
Computation, Memory, Nature, and Life

UNIVAC Memories

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/

terminals or personal computers. Why? Because the only way to get your program into the computer was to punch it on cards, and as you discovered within seconds after sitting down
UNIVAC Memories

MS-DOS Kermit

https://www.kermitproject.org/mskermit.html

with other kinds of computers, including IBM's own (a service that not even IBM could offer at the time). The prototype was done by Bill Catchings of the Kermit project in a singl
Communications software for DOS and Windows 3.x,offering serial and network communications (including its own compact built-inTCP

Gary Kildall

http://www.gaby.de/kildall.htm

for some of it: Microcomputers were a new field, ripe for rapid advances, and that's a situation that fits neatly into a collegial atmosphere in which information is openly shared
Gary Kildall and Collegial Entrepreneurship

OS/Forth

https://www.forth.org/svfig/osf.html

working storage. Apple Computers having a fast graphics display ability on the newly introduced MacIntosh needed some way to get that to a print device and chose PostScript as the


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