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LL and LR Parsing Demystified
I found this blog on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033905.htmlThu May 28 13:11:31 2026 - permalink -
There are many interesting articles.- https://blog.reverberate.org/2013/07/ll-and-lr-parsing-demystified.html
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virtual museum of operating systems
This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.Thu May 21 11:31:30 2026 - permalink -
A custom emulator-independent launcher is provided, and all OSes and emulators are pre-installed and pre-configured. The launcher includes a snapshot feature to quickly revert broken installations back to a working state. Hypervisor installers and shortcuts to run the VM on Windows, macOS, and Linux are also included.
Announced on the COFF mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2026-May/002313.html- https://virtualosmuseum.org/
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Retrotechnology Article Library - Typewritten Software
Manuals for old software. Announced on TUHS https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033788.htmlThu May 21 11:25:02 2026 - permalink -- http://www.typewritten.org/Manual/
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Microkernel Characteristics and Features
A capability-based kernel, mentioned on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-April/033534.htmlTue Apr 21 11:34:09 2026 - permalink -- http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/KK/UnixOnMicroKernel/ch1.html
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Which time-sharing operating systems can be run via emulation today?
Blog about time-sharing operating systems. Found via Lars Brinkoff's post https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-10/c/HsfFnIp2Ucc on the PiDP-10 Google group.Mon Apr 13 08:57:01 2026 - permalink -- https://timereshared.com/os-list/
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Back to the egg - Emacs in the 70s · Curious Musings
Found via https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=browse;diff=1;id=Carnival → https://curious.port111.com/2025/11/01/emacs-carnival-december-the-people.htmlThu Mar 12 09:46:57 2026 - permalink -
http://curious.galthub.com/blog/typewriters/ might be useful to get math rendering working on my blog.
http://curious.galthub.com/blog/bashrc/ uses /etc/hostname to determine the name of the host, maybe I should use that on Android?- http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2025-12-10/#fnref:2
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Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It’s 1973
Nice article about a buffer overflow in su(1) in the recently discovered v4 unix.Mon Jan 5 22:52:02 2026 - permalink -- https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/
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[TUHS] Why did Unix succeed? "simple, robust and performant" or "hackable: source available and extensible"?
Timeline of Unix and related technologies.Tue Nov 25 08:47:45 2025 - permalink -- https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-November/032813.html
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From Transistors to Turing Machines
Sounds interesting.Fri Aug 29 07:25:26 2025 - permalink -- https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=175537619931842&w=2
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Parsing: a timeline -- V3.1
A history of parsing techniques. Bob McClure's TMG (see https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2014-September/006765.html) is not mentioned.Fri Aug 8 16:57:06 2025 - permalink -
See also the author's blog https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/- https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3#footnote-42-ref
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'Re: [9fans] parm server: user interaction' - MARC
Explanation of TOPS-20's COMND% JSYS (Jump to SYStem, essentially system call) command completion mechanism.Fri Aug 8 10:46:57 2025 - permalink -- https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=175464100923546&w=2
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Foundational Unix Papers, Books, and Videos
Collection of links to many articles and books about Unix. Mentioned by Clem Cole on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-July/032201.htmlThu Jul 17 07:04:40 2025 - permalink -- https://www.crystallabs.io/unix-books-papers-videos
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Telebahn - an interactive online museum of Packet Switched Public Data Networking
Found on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-June/032159.htmlTue Jun 24 23:08:20 2025 - permalink -- https://x25.org/#
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collection of hobby projects, playing with mostly obsolete technology
Found via Liam Proven's page https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/the_lgp30_retrospective/Sun Jun 22 21:02:28 2025 - permalink -- https://www.e-basteln.de/
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Ben's Book of the Month: Review of "A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age" | RSA Conference
Found on https://www.rsaconference.com/library/Blog/bens-book-of-the-month-review-of-computer-security-and-the-internet, a review of Paul C. van Oorschot's "Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin".Mon May 5 12:45:00 2025 - permalink -
https://www.amazon.com/Vulnerable-System-Information-Security-Computer/dp/1501758942/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title- https://www.rsaconference.com/Library/blog/bens-book-of-the-month-review-of-a-vulnerable-system
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Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin
Interesting book by Paul C. van Oorschot, recommended by Rik Farrow on the TUHS mailing list https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-May/031832.htmlMon May 5 07:17:33 2025 - permalink -- https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/toolsjewels.html
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AIO-CM4-101 | Chipsee All-In-One desktop computer based on Raspberry Pi CM4.
Found on Lars Ingebritsen's blog https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2023/07/19/raspberries-screens/Tue Apr 29 11:16:52 2025 - permalink -- https://chipsee.com/product/aio-cm4-101/
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A museum of all things computational: mechanical, mainframe, mini, micro
Forum about retrocomputing, found via a link on Norbert Landsteiner's site https://masswerk.at/lounge.phpSun Mar 16 19:18:17 2025 - permalink -
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/some-materials-on-early-c-and-the-history-of-c/3016 looks interesting.- https://retrocomputingforum.com/
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Mailüfterl emulator
The emulator can be used on https://norbertkehrer.github.io/mailuefterl/mailuefterl.html, information on the Mailüfterl computer can be found onThu Mar 13 16:31:05 2025 - permalink -
https://norbertkehrer.github.io/mailuefterl.html
See the blog entries "Floating Point Library for the Mailuefterl Computer and More Original Mailuefterl Programs
Thursday, August 31, 2017" and
"Mailuefterl Emulator in JavaScript
Monday, July 10, 2017" on https://norbertkehrer.github.io/
"In the PDP series DEC
launched machines like the PDP-10, on which the C programming language
and the first adventure game were developed, or the extremly successful
PDP-11, on which the first Unix was written." on https://norbertkehrer.github.io/pdp8.html is wrong, report it. C was created on the pdp-11.- https://github.com/norbertkehrer/norbertkehrer.github.io/tree/master/mailuefterl