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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

Kermit 95 2.1 - Terminal Emulation, File Transfer, and Scripting acrossSerial Ports, Modems, and Internet for Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2</

https://www.kermitproject.org/k95.html

and on many kinds of computers and operating systems : past, present, and future. Kermit 95 is used all over the world in the academic, government, corporate, and nonprofit sector

bryan wann :: binary fury

https://binaryfury.wann.net/

fixing up vintage computers and software, so why not get a vintage tractor running? TL;DR: good news: tractor runs, bad news, a lot of bad things [photos: flickr – IH 484 tr
Bryan Wann, California, USA

Online BYTE Archive

https://halfhill.com/bytelink.html

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

Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

https://apple-tree.life/~michael/blog/2007/

disconnected from computers: so, surprised when I said I worked on OpenOffice to a room full of people to fund that 4 out of 6 had it installed, and were using it - and one of the

The C10K problem

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

is a big place now. And computers are big, too. You can buy a 1000MHz machine with 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $1200 or so. Let's see - at 20000 clien

Trends and the Future of Computing and the Internet

http://mrp3.com/trends.net.html

of the art. But today's computers often have multiple cores and operate at speeds far in excess of 2Ghz, have gigabytes of RAM, terabytes of disk storage, and video resolution bet

XPointer xpointer() Scheme

https://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xpointer/

. Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Chicago, Oxfor

Ken Silverman's Build Engine Page

http://www.advsys.net/ken/build.htm

this. I don't install computers for a living. I usually have to resort to good old trial and error to get stuff like this to work. About the sound patches: They only fix a crashin

Miller Microcomputer Services - Index Page

http://www.millermicro.com/

World's Top 500 Supercomputers Run Linux , The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Eric Raymond, 1997), The Hacker Spirit at MIT (Richard Stallman, 1999), Open Source And Economics , Math p
Business and pleasure by Dick and Jill Miller of Miller Microcomputer Services.

My impressions

http://galexander.org/laptops/mac/impressions.html

In the PC world, the computers feel shallow because I understand a little bit of almost every layer. I am familiar with the hardware from a user perspective and also (somewhat) an

Unix philosophy description by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)

https://www.linfo.org/unix_philosophy.html

on a wide variety of computers; rather, each computer manufacturer developed a separate operating system for its own hardware. Another important factor in Thompson's desire for ma


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