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Pointer-Stable Dynamic Arrays
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6 days ago
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Why IBM Turned to Microsoft for Basic
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9 days ago
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An Atari 8-bit Computer Timeline
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12 days ago
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Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy
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40 days ago
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Gary Kildall, Bill Gates and the "Gentleman's Agreement"
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41 days ago
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AArch64 Bitfield Move (BFM) Instruction
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49 days ago
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They Think
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59 days ago
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Death of Software. Nah
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68 days ago
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An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code
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3 months ago
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The Spherical Cows of Programming
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6 months ago
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MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from SCO (1987)
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6 months ago
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When the IBM PC Came to Town
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7 months ago
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Counting Leading Zeros in a Byte
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8 months ago
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Alan Sugar of Amstrad Speaks to Practical Computing (1985)
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8 months ago
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If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?
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9 months ago
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111 comments
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The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 Is Coming to Kickstarter This Saturday
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9 months ago
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A Tale of Two Red-Bearded Visionaries
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9 months ago
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From Typewriters to Transformers: AI Is Just the Next Tools Abstraction
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10 months ago
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Birth of 86-DOS
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11 months ago
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Remembering MS-DOS 5.0
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on April 4, 2025
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The Curious Case of Jupiter Ace
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on March 31, 2025
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Disassembly with GDB
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Could DOS Have Been a Scaled-Down Version of Xenix?
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on March 2, 2025
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I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
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247 points
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