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25 Years of Linux — so far [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/698042/

in moving down from minicomputers, had become much more widespread, but it also lost the code-sharing culture that had helped to make it Unix in the first place. The consequences
On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus Benedict Torvalds posted a messag [...]

"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...

Homepage - Raymii.org

http://raymii.org/s/

that makes the Mio bike computers. This Navman Bike 1000 is a rebadged Mio Cyclo 200 . It's from 2015 and as you might have guessed, no more map updates. This article shows ho

FreeBSD 4.3 Release Notes | The FreeBSD Project

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.3R/notes/

the HOT1 from Virtual Computers (www.vcc.com) Support for Dave Mills experimental Loran-C receiver. Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA and ISA standard speed (2Mbps) a
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

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 [...]

brandonw.net

https://brandonw.net/

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Roy Longbottom's Computer Benchmarks and Stress Tests and Performance History Index

http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/

or other single board computers, phones and tablets. Besides details of the programs and extensive results, the following reports also provide links to compressed files containing
The PC benchmark collection is a FREE set of programs that measure performance of CPUs, cache, memory, disks and graphics. They run via Windows, Linux and, now, Android phones and

Apple2fpga: Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/

successful personal computers. Designed by Steve Wozniak ("Woz") and first introduced in 1977, it really took off in 1978 when the 140K Disk II 5.25-inch floppy drive was introduc

MEKA Homepage

https://www.smspower.org/meka/

friendly to today's computers. - Various minor emulation issues were fixed, including cases crashing the emulator, extended 224 lines video mode and Z80 and ColecoVision interrupt
MEKA Emulator Homepage. MEKA is a multi console emulator by Omar Cornut and contributors. Available for MS-DOS, MS-Windows and maybe GNU

(IV.) Foomatic from the Developer's View: How does it work?

https://www.openprinting.org/download/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/IV.Foomatic-Developer/IV.tutorial-handout-foomatic-development.html

are operating the computers newbie-friendliness did not have a high priority, too. Unfortunately LPD was used for a very long time, up to even nowadays, but printers changed a lot

Mataroa Collection

https://collection.mataroa.blog/

https://shkspr.mobi/ Computers and books Willem Pennings https://willempennings.nl/ Hardware /dev/lawyer https://writing.kemitchell.com/ Law, technology, and the space between ver

The Retrocomputing Museum

http://www.catb.org/retro/

Reduced Instruction Set Computers? Well, here is the concept taken to its logical extreme — an emulator for a computer with just one (1) instruction (Subtract and Branch if
A museum of archaic computer languages


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