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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

SAGE

https://ed-thelen.org/sage-1.html

interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Lickl

Home - ratfactor

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How I set up new computers with Slackware Linux and Slackbuilds.org (my new submissions) . DONE February: My Forth talk, Forth: The programming language that writes itself (these

Windows 3.1x Links

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Dmoz Open Directory - Computers > Software > Operating Systems > Windows > Windows 3.x Axcel216's Max Speed FREE Windows/WfWG 3.1x Power Toys (many newer programs and
Windows 3.1x Links

How to Block Forced Updates

https://backlit.neocities.org/how-to-block-forced-updates

all attacks on domestic computers - including forced updates - are triggered from within the computer itself, and rely on outbound network calls, not inbound . Nearly. All. If you

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/

believe (as I do) that computers are for augmenting the human intellect , not just for high-performance data crunching. I believe that technology cannot be pursued in isolation. &

speleotrove.com

https://speleotrove.com/

: algorism for computers (and people) — an extensive collection of documents, links, and software for decimal arithmetic. Tollos ; a small supervisor program for microcontro

Coraid

http://coraid.com/

starting back when computers were slow and their memories small. To make anything at all, we had to learn the computing-trade secrets: how to write software so efficiently that it

lEEt/OS

http://sininenankka.dy.fi/leetos/philosophy.php

run it on very low-spec computers. That way lEEt/OS applications can be run in any system. The instruction set of the bytecode is simple and easy to learn. One purpose of lEEt/OS

Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface

https://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

reason people fear computers—stateful things can be broken . * * The only state kept by a book is which page it is open to, which is why “getting lost in a book”

Welcome to the Retrocomputing Archive!

http://www.retroarchive.org/

the IBM PC and PC/XT computers. See PC Hardware & Software Documentation

Rise of Worse Is Better

https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

language. Half the computers that exist at any point are worse than median (smaller or slower). Unix and C work fine on them. The worse-is-better philosophy means that implementat


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