Just what it says. The author had read the handbook soon after it came out and has revisited it 25 years later. He also offers interesting comments about most of the competing operating systems. See also
Making old systems accessible via the web https://athornton.dreamwidth.org/14733.html
Exploring old unixes https://athornton.dreamwidth.org/14340.html
mpmath is a free (BSD licensed) Python library for real and complex floating-point arithmetic with arbitrary precision. It has been developed by Fredrik Johansson since 2007, with help from many contributors.
Found on https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-May/025840.html
Reveal.js is a tool for creating good-looking HTML presentations, authored by Hakim El Hattab. http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/
Org-Reveal exports your Org documents to reveal.js presentations.
With Org-reveal, you can create beautiful presentations with 3D effects from simple but powerful Org contents.
Analyse and edit binary files wherever you want, on any operating system, whether on a desktop or smartphone, and without installing any software. All you need is a modern web browser (Mozilla Firefox 53+, Google Chrome 58+, Opera 44+, Apple Safari 11+, Microsoft Edge 20+).
The complete file processing is done by your browser and HTML5 functionality. HexEd.it does not upload your data to the server. It can also compute various hash functions.
HexEd.it has a small memory footprint - it does not keep your files in memory. This makes it possible to handle very large files even on low-RAM machines. HexEd.it has been tested on files as large as 150 GiB.
Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes.
MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms.
Mentioned as similar to IBM's VM on https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-May/025771.html
ISLisp in JS/Go: Standards-compliant Lisp smaller than Common-Lisp.
Note that the on-line JavaScript version does not handle #x prefixes correctly.
Integers are also limited to 31 bit:
(expt 2 31) => -2147483648
in contradiction to https://islisp-dev.github.io/ISLispHyperDraft/islisp-v23.html#integer_class
Hy is a multi-paradigm general-purpose programming language in the Lisp family. It’s implemented as a kind of alternative syntax for Python. Compared to Python, Hy offers a variety of extra features, generalizations, and syntactic simplifications, as would be expected of a Lisp. Compared to other Lisps, Hy provides direct access to Python’s built-ins and third-party Python libraries, while allowing you to freely mix imperative, functional, and object-oriented styles of programming.
Found on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#Genealogy_and_variants
The author found Org Mode lacking: "I find the export tools available for Org Mode are not quite powerful (or fast) enough for a large blog. I got pretty far trying to get the export features to suit, but not far enough – generation of a large site took too long, and customization was too unwieldy."
SYSTEMS: Available for Windows 11 to Windows 7, Linux (various distributions) and Mac OS.
LANGUAGES: Available in 7 languages.
ZED! mobile app for iOS and Android.