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The Eternal Mainframe

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html

its replacements. Minicomputers Minicomputers were supposed to kill the mainframe. They are gone. Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General are dead. The last minicomputers w
The urge to replace the mainframe has reinvented the mainframe and its problems.

DAVES OLD COMPUTERS

http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/

Daves Old Computers I have been involved in the computer industry since the mid 1970's, and I have seen many different machines and architectures come and go. Along the way I used
Daves Old Computer Collection

Computers I have used

http://www.bobeager.uk/ihaveused.html

bobeager.uk Computers I have used Home Links Books Papers Talks Anecdotes UniKent memories Humour Projects Hacks Computers I have used Messages from the Future Famous People Softw

The Early History Of Smalltalk

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

interactive time-shared computers, graphics screens and pointing devices. Advanced computer languages were invented to simulate complex systems such as oil refineries and semi-int

What Is The Cloud?

http://toastytech.com/about/thecloud.html

mainframes, and minicomputers. What clustering meant is that a single machine node in a cluster could go down, and other machine nodes would take over. End users would still be ab

List of Emacs implementations

https://emacs.org.ntnu.no/implementations.html

+44 71 255 1038 G.W. Computers Inc. 4 Eagle Square East Boston MA 02128 USA +1 617 569 5990 fax +1 617 567 2981 _Note:_ may not be Emacs not free, contact vendor for price informa

Kernel Planet

https://planet.kernel.org/

with all other computers in the universe, delegate work to them, and control them (this was very futuristic in 1978, pre-Internet as we know it). Orac was considered the most valu

Voyager Spacecraft and Fortran 5

http://www.geonius.com/writing/other/voyager.html

the Voyager onboard computers were not programmed in Fortran. My background: I'm a retired software developer. In the 1980s, I worked on the image processing ground system for NAS
Voyagers NOT programmed in Fortran 5

Ken Shirriff's blog

http://www.righto.com/

restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 yea

How to start with CP/M

http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/howto_cpm.html

CP/M-68K on 68000 based computers.) 8080/8085/Z80 computers of the 1970's and 80's can be found; check this part of my document about old and new CP/M computers. A popular option

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

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


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