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  • Playing with Oberon in 2019
    Blog, mostly about the Plan 9 operating system. Found https://seh.dev/p9sk1/ when searching for information about the dp9ik authentication protocol introduced by 9front.

    Other pages I found are
    - https://echoline.org/webterm.pdf, explaining Webterm, an HTML5 remote desktop for use with Plan 9[1] which re-
     imagines drawterm inside of a browser. The source code is available at https://github.com/echoline/webterm
    - https://man.9front.org/6/authsrv
    Thu May 23 13:50:16 2024 - permalink -
    - https://seh.dev/oberon/
    blog computer crytopgraphy history language Oberon plan9 programming security Wirth
  • Free On-line Dictionary of Computing from FOLDOC
    FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.
    Fri Apr 26 14:13:29 2024 - permalink -
    - https://foldoc.org/Free+On-line+Dictionary
    computer dictionary history
  • DJGPP
    DJGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS. It includes ports of many GNU development utilities. The development tools require a 80386 or newer computer to run, as do the programs they produce. In most cases, the programs it produces can be sold commercially without license or royalties.
    See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP
    Found on https://cscope.sourceforge.net/index.html
    Mon Apr 8 11:15:18 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
    C C++ compiler computer FOSS GNU history
  • LCM+L - Online Systems
    Information on the Computers available over the Internet from the LCM through SSH.
    Wed Mar 27 14:33:06 2024 - permalink -
    - https://livingcomputers.org/Computer-Collection/Online-Systems.aspx
    computer history on-line
  • The Berkeley Software Distribution - by Bradford Morgan White
    The first article I bookmarked, "The Berkeley Software Distribution" appears to have a few errors, e.g. job control vs C-z suspend/resume
    Announced on https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-February/029381.html

    See also https://www.abortretry.fail/p/work-at-the-mill, a history of Digital Equipment Corporation. Found via https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20250208/ on 2025-02-28
    Sun Feb 18 17:00:51 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution
    BSD computer history operating-system reading
  • PC/XT and AT Keyboards - How Are They Different?
    I remember the missing \-key on the XT keyboard and find it interesting that it had Ctrl left to A.
    See also https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/floppy_drives.php for information about floppy discs.
    Sat Feb 10 22:13:58 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/xt_vs_at_keyboards.php
    computer history keyboard
  • Neo6502 - Open Source Hardware Board
    Neo6502 is small computer with USB keyboard host and HDMI/DVI output.
    Found on https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2093-neo6502-in-the-matrix-open-source-hardware-and-software-modern-retro-computer-with-software-defined-architecture/
    Mon Feb 5 15:40:13 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/Neo6502/open-source-hardware
    6502 computer hardware history pi raspberry π
  • Quentin's posts about retro-computing
    Most of them are about TOPS-10, found on the PiDP-10 Google group.
    Tue Jan 30 19:45:17 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.quentin.org.uk/category/retro-computing/
    blog computer history pdp-10
  • The Original Hacker's Dictionary
    This file, jargon.txt, was maintained on MIT-AI for many years, before being published by Guy Steele and others as the Hacker's Dictionary. Many years after the original book went out of print, Eric Raymond picked it up, updated it and republished it as the New Hacker's Dictionary. Unfortunately, in the process, he essentially destroyed what held it together, in various ways: first, by changing its emphasis from Lisp-based to UNIX-based (blithely ignoring the distinctly anti-UNIX aspects of the LISP culture celebrated in the original); second, by watering down what was otherwise the fairly undiluted record of a single cultural group through this kind of mixing; and third, by adding in all sorts of terms which are "jargon" only in the sense that they're technical. This page, however, is pretty much the original, snarfed from MIT-AI around 1988. -- jpd.

    See also https://www.dourish.com/quotes.html and https://www.dourish.com/goodies/

    Found on https://mumble.net/
    Thu Jan 25 10:05:04 2024 - permalink -
    - https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html
    computer history reading
  • VAX floating point formats
    Mon Jan 15 23:57:21 2024 - permalink -
    - https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc/formats/VAXFloatingPoint.htm
    computer DEC floating-point history VAX
  • Open Dylan
    Found via https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/25/the_war_of_the_workstations/
    Thu Jan 11 15:42:17 2024 - permalink -
    - https://opendylan.org/
    computer history language lisp programming
  • Clustered Pi Picos made to run original Transputer code
    The PIO programmable I/O unit can be used to emulate transputer links and presumably (http://www.inmos.com/inmos_legacy.html) SpaceWire links.
    Sun Dec 24 10:47:56 2023 - permalink -
    - https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/06/pi_pico_transputer_code/
    computer history pi raspberry SpaceWire TODO π
  • Greaseweazle V4 USB Floppy Adapter – Flux Reader Writer – Ultimate Mister FPGA
    Greaseweazle allows versatile floppy drive control over USB. Read and write your vintage floppy disks from your PC/Linux/Mac computer. This USB device lets you to connect an old floppy disk drive to your modern computer to read/write floppy disks from any system with Shugart standard drives (Amiga, Atarí, Commodore, Amstrad, Sinclair, PC, CNC machines, musical instruments, industrial equipment, and more.)

    By extracting the raw flux transitions from a drive, any disk format can be captured and analyzed. The Greaseweazle also supports writing to floppy disks, from a range of image file formats including those commonly used for online preservation (ADF, IPF, DSK, IMG, HFE, …).

    Greaseweazle V4 is the latest version, updated for mass production and with the following features:

    Reads and writes 3″, 3.5″, 5.25″, 8″ disks (with suitable drive and cable)
    Buffered outputs, for communicating with older 5.25″ and 8″ disk drives
    Integrated power connector for directly powering most 3.5″ disk drives
    Write-enable jumper can be removed for safer preservation of precious vintage disks
    Supports floppy-modded 5.25″ drives
    Supports Disk-Change detection as used by Rob Smith’s integration into the WinUAE Amiga emulator
    3 user-definable outputs (eg. 8″ interface REDWC signal)
    100% factory tested, and tested again by me before shipping

    Found via https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-January/027510.html
    Thu Dec 14 15:24:14 2023 - permalink -
    - https://ultimatemister.com/product/greaseweazle-v4-usb-floppy-adapter-flux-reader-writer/
    computer hardware history TODO USB
  • CodeArtNow - MACSimizing TECO
    MACSimizing TECO: A Note on the Invention of EMACS
    by Adrienne Gaye Thompson [1] 2009-11-02
    Found on https://dbpedia.org/page/Emacs, where the incorrect URL http://www.codeartnow.com/hacker-art-1/macsimizing-teco is used
    Thu Nov 30 10:18:10 2023 - permalink -
    - https://www.codeartnow.com/hacker-art/macsimizing-teco
    editor emacs history TODO
  • Open source flash emulation
    Hardware to emulate the SPI memory in PCs to speed up the development of free BIOS firmware.
    Found on the Oberon mailing list.
    See also the articles about retrocomputing and security, e.g. https://trmm.net/Cosign/
    Fri Nov 3 16:34:01 2023 - permalink -
    - https://trmm.net/Spispy/
    BIOS computer electronics FOSS hardware history RSA SPI UEFI
  • Introducing the Smalltalk Zoo - CHM
    Mentioned in the Medley Interlisp 2023 video and on https://interlisp.org/about/partners/
    Thu Apr 20 12:11:37 2023 - permalink -
    - https://computerhistory.org/blog/introducing-the-smalltalk-zoo-48-years-of-smalltalk-history-at-chm/
    computer emulator history JavaScript on-line smalltalk
  • LM-3 --- resurrecting the MIT CADR Lisp machine
    Found via https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/S3JKR_k_uKY
    See also https://tumbleweed.nu/r/bug-lispm/forumpost/546e31bb40 for the announcement "System 100.0 is now released!"
    Mon Apr 17 00:37:51 2023 - permalink -
    - https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3/
    computer history lisp software
  • Welcome to transputer.net
    Documentation and description of projects using Inmos Transputer processors.
    Found via a link on http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/transputers/overview.htm
    Wed Mar 29 11:29:37 2023 - permalink -
    - http://www.transputer.net/welcome.asp
    computer hardware history reading software
  • Signs of Triviality - Opinions, mostly my own, on the importance of being and other things.
    Blog, mostly about network-related things. Found via https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-March/028267.html
    Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so... https://www.netmeister.org/blog/epoch.html
    Sharing Secrets https://www.netmeister.org/blog/sharing-secrets.html
    Wed Mar 22 11:45:04 2023 - permalink -
    - https://www.netmeister.org/blog/
    blog history security time unix
  • Rob Austein's pages
    Found when https://www.hactrn.net/sra/alice/index.html was mentioned on the TUHS mailing list.
    https://www.hactrn.net/blog/2019/04/17/threads-considered-harmful/ links to https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html
    The plan in https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/CSC340F/humour.html sounds all too familiar.
    Sat Mar 4 11:09:40 2023 - permalink -
    - https://www.hactrn.net
    blog computer history pdp-10
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