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Amiga Juggler Animation

http://etwright.org/cghist/juggler.html

the Amiga (and other computers of its era) used non-square pixels , a legacy of analog television. To display an Amiga image on square-pixel hardware so that it doesn't appear squ

Memory part 2: CPU caches [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/252125/

it does not matter. But computers do not have large main memories for no reason. The working set is bound to be larger than the cache. This is especially true for systems running
The second part of Ulrich Drepper's 'What every programmer should know about memory' document [...]

GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY: INTRODUCTION

http://www.getlamp.com/introduction.html

the first games on home computers would hardly raise an eyebrow in the modern era of photorealism and surround sound. In a world of Quake , Half-Life and Halo , it is expected tha

Electronic Music and the NeXTcube - Running MAX on the IRCAM Musical Workstation - 0110.be

https://0110.be/posts/Electronic_Music_and_the_NeXTcube_-_Running_MAX_on_the_IRCAM_Musical_Workstation

of NeXT’s line of computers. Due to its high price, the NeXTcube was not a commercial success. It mainly ended up at companies or in the hands of researchers. Two of those researc
Electronic Music and the NeXTcube - Running MAX on the IRCAM Musical Workstation

The Ontology And Cosmology Of Non-Euclidean Geometry

https://www.meta-religion.com/Philosophy/Articles/Philosophy_of_mathematics/non-euclidian_geometry.htm

long before computers; but they never produced more, and can produce no more, than flat Euclidean drawings of curves. If such graphics are expected to alter our minds so that we c

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

The Linux Documentation Project Links: Multimedia

https://tldp.org/links/mm.html

Tux on or with mobile computers. Presentations and Slides: The Future of Linux , a report on a panel discussion that took place on July 14, 1998 in Silicon Valley. Linux on laptop
Linux Documentation Project Links

Chess programs, 8080 emulator, and retrogaming

https://nanochess.org/

about the japanese MSX computers in 2023 (Spanish). Update (Nov/02/2024) Pumpkin Bakery is my new Halloween game for Intellivision. You are Pumpkin Smith, the proud owner of a pum
My winning entries from contests like the IOCCC, JS1K and MSXdev, also the world's smallest chess programs written in C, Java and Javascript, and retrogames.

Life Before Demos

http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/lbd

youth with a love of computers can bring to the demo scene. But the new blood probably has no idea what was interesting before demos came around in 1990. Sure, everyone can downlo

Perth Dead Person's Society

http://www.perthdps.com/

via the use of computers and the internet in a social environment ... To promote the production and distribution of genealogical indexes and other research tools ... To foster coo
To promote an interest in genealogy via the use of computers and the internet in a social environment

100R — tools ecosystem

http://100r.co/site/tools_ecosystem.html

combined thirst of our computers. I could only use my computer when the sun was highest in the sky, for short periods of time. It proved to be impractical. We couldn't use Photosh

The Dale R. Broadhurst Information Page

http://sidneyrigdon.com/DRB/host03.htm

of networked Macintosh computers. When internet service arrived in that remote part of the Pacific, I already had a hundred such texts prepared, with accompanying graphics -- all


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