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acceleration on modern computers, as I'd heard it was broken. After going through the effort of getting my copy of Grim back from a game designer friend of mine, I installed it, p

Getting started with Retro Assembly... Basic concepts

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of Assembly and retro computers... This is for you! This episode will go over the concepts of computing, and what assembly assembly language is, and what it can do for you! What i

Online BYTE Archive

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the most crash-prone computers ever built is that reliability has never been a high priority — either for the industry or for users. [Cover story: April 1998] Why Mainframes

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

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the "Golden Era" of computers-- it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men

Stroustrup: C++ Glossary

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terms of templates and object-oriented programming in terms of virtual functions, rather than trying to be sufficiently abstract and general to cover all languages and all usages.

posts tagged "scheme"

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Introduction: Why Lisp?

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facilities for doing object-oriented programming; and several language facilities that just don't exist in other programming languages. How is this possible? What on Earth would p

G-Kermit 2.01

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on the speed of the two computers and the network load. 11. PROBLEMS, BUGS, ERRORS If file transfers fail: Make sure your terminal emulator is not unprefixing control characters;

Bit permutations

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as was done on ancient computers. Today only base 2 (i.e. bits) is used, and this is what is crucially needed for all bit operations. If signed numbers are present, it is assumed
An essay about bit permutations in software

Old, but Interesting Programs

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But I could see that computers could do more than compute. I tried writing a program to generate anagrams. That did not go well. Larry Tessler (a less-known Tesler ). advised me t
Thomas Dickey has been writing software programs since 1970, and discusses here some of the more interesting ones.

1401Restoration-CHM

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1969s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum," Robert Garner, Making IT Work Conference, British Computer Society, London, May 22-23, 2017 Conference presentation Procee

Tools and utilities for Windows

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administration of computers and networks? Migrate old source code to modern development systems? Have some kind of hard-to-solve problem with computers, networks, drivers, applica
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