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RISC OS Awards - 2015 awards poll results

http://www.riscosawards.co.uk/2015/#11-bse

Potted History of Acorn Computers' book, after taking £915 from RISC OS users via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign . All the RISC OS users who didn't bother voting in last

2019 - Strange Loop

https://thestrangeloop.com/2019/sessions.html

of Texas at Austin How Computers Misunderstand the World Meredith Broussard New York University How to teach programming (and other things)? Felienne Hermans Leiden University Clo
Strange Loop is a conference for software developers covering programming langs, databases, distributed systems, security, machine learning, creativity, and more!

A flight simulator from the past, and I apologise for terrible Latin. | Newsletter for 4th July 2022 « Tom Scott

https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/2022-07-04/

from the 1930s, with no computers necessary . I don't do very well.   I was at Vidcon this week, which means ironically I haven't been watching all that much video! But here'

Dedoimedo - A Place to Learn a Lot About a Lot

https://www.dedoimedo.com/

a Lot ≡ Menu Computers Games World Art Books Cars Physics About Back to Top ★ Computers Linux Windows Virtualization Hardware Internet Media Office UNIX Various Game
Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you wi

The Anatomy of a Search Engine

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

As the capabilities of computers increase, it becomes possible to index a very large amount of text for a reasonable cost. Of course, other more bandwidth intensive media such as

Daylight Theory: Fingerprints

https://www.daylight.com/dayhtml/doc/theory/theory.finger.html

searching since computers perform the necessary boolean operations very quickly. Structural keys vary widely in size, from a few tens or hundreds of bits to several thousand bits

Peter's z80.eu site blog

http://www.z80.eu/blog/

small hard disk imaging software which can run on a IBM PC/XT also (no need for EMS or XMS, no need for a better processor than 8088), and can be used with a parallel ZIP drive (e
A vintage computer blog with a lot of entries about old computers, retro computer, technology information and also hints and tipps related to that hobby

Internet Kermit Service

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

any number of different computers that share the same file system on the same network. The database can be monitored by the sysadmin with a simple "systat"-like display program, w

LISP Information and Resources

http://www.lispmachine.net/

were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. In a sense, they were the first commercial sing

VAX-11/750/780

https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/VAX-11-750.html

a new breed of superminicomputers. At the same time, the PC industry was launched by the Apple II,which could be hooked up to any color television. The first desktop computer from

Posts | Ink

https://dotink.co/posts/

of thinking about what computers do. Unlike the other popular theoretical model, the Turing machine, the lambda calculus describes all computation in terms of pure functions, and

Nintendo 64 Architecture | A Practical Analysis

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-64/

for Windows-based computers as well [41] . Furthermore, there were third-party tools such as custom cartridges housing a long ribbon cable that connected to the workstation. These
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally


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