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The unix programming environment

http://www.talisman.org/unix/burgess-guide.html

well on large scale computers (with many processors) and small computers which fit in your suitcase! All of the basic mechanisms required of a multi-user operating system are pres

Lena @ Things Of Interest

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

one can refer to how computers boot, and how applications start, opting to perform a large amount of completely useless calculations instead of just loading a ready to run memory
A note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled &q

Why I Develop For The Mac – Evan Miller

https://www.evanmiller.org/why-i-develop-for-the-mac.html

of performance of the computers that the company ships. Browser vendors with cross-platform drawing kits just don't invest the same kind of effort into drawing lines and circles.

Ron Schnell - @RonnieSchnell

http://www.driver-aces.com/ronnie.html

game installed on more computers than any other in the world, except for Solitaire. This includes WoW or anything else you can think of. I am the founder of MailCall.Com, which I

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 [...]

Herb's S-100 Stuff

http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s100.html

IEEE-696 systems are computers from 1975 and through the 1980's which have a specific kind of 100-pin computer "bus" for their cards . For many years I've provided assistance, har

Computing

https://www.technologyuk.net/computing/

electronic digital computers owe much to the pioneering work done by individuals like Wilhelm Schickard, a German scholar who built the first mechanical calculator in 1623, and Ch
Web pages covering a broad range of computing topics, including computer hardware, operating systems, computer gaming and the history of computing.

Matt Blaze's Exhaustive Search

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/

targets' phones and computers to install surreptitious "spyware" that records conversations and text messages before they can be encrypted. In other words, wiretapping today incre

Cryptography and Liberty 2000

https://archive.epic.org/reports/crypto2000.html/

into buildings or hack computers to obtain encryption keys and obtain information. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are also demanding and receiving substantial increases

Apollo Archive

https://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/

Apollo Page Retrocomputers Apollo Collection Typewritten Software - Retrotechnology Research Laboratory These sites were up at one time but were down last time I checked. Apollo D

Rants

http://toastytech.com/evil/rants.html

out. Remember, modern computers use YOU. I reeeeeeally need to get around to testing some new Linux distros. 2/6/19 Microsoft is really trying to get retards to switch to Office 3

Can you trust your computer?

http://www.gpascal.com/trust.htm

Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call "trusted computing," large media corporations (including the movie companies and r


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