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back when the Apple II / Applesoft BASIC twitter bot was a thing similar techniques were the best way to inject assembly language into a BASIC program, though we quickly learned th…

There are probably so many stories out there of interesting things she did. A few are breifly referenced at her old website here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060116130917/http://…

you wouldn't believe how many people cite that paper as "Wulf et al." when that's practically more characters than saying "Wulf and McKee" I notice these things a bit more as she w…

you should try running Linpack on them all (you can find the results here mixed in with other machines I own) https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/machines.html When I did tha…

I don't know how many of you have seen a 1541 floppy drive in person either but it is massive, it's heavier and possibly bigger that an actual Commodore 64 and pretty expensive at …

as the previous commenter hinted, it's because the founders were Vera and Augustin

way back in the day our college LUG (linux user group) had a rep from VA Linux come to speak, but the person running things was unfamiliar with the company and kept calling them "V…

at the time, just out of undergrad, I ended up working for the remnants of the #9 Video Card company that had been bought by S3 and was masking a last effort at making a Linux-base…

saying "windows 98 was bad too" is just an example that Microsoft has always had poor code quality. Back in the day Linux, for all its flaws, was generaly a lot more stable on the …

as someone who has written my own OS from scratch (vmwOS) and teach a class on it, I have to agree with a lot of the other comments that x86-based OS projects do end up being exerc…

quite possible because it's from Europe, but remember that Apple was sticking + on the end of their model names 6 years before the Amiga existed.

as someone who has built various raspberry pi clusters over the years (I even got an academic paper out of one) the big shame is that as far as I know it's still virtually impossib…

ironically, you should be thanking Apple that the IBM PC exists The Apple II was an open system and IBM clearly took a lot of inspiration from the Apple II line. Look at the 5150 m…

I had thought maybe it was on the old 0xdeadbeef mailing list, but no luck, but probably it was this from rec.humor.funny which in the end isn't quite as clever as I remember it be…

dating myself here but I remember in the 90s reading a really funny spoof article about Microsoft announcing they had developed nuclear weapons. Didn't even seem that implausible a…

it's already happened. So many of the main contributors work for IBM, Microsoft, and Intel. It's extremely difficult to have your voice heard / patches accepted if you're just a ho…

it's funny that a lot of us Linux nuts on comp.os.linux.advocacy back in the 90s predicted this was Microsoft's planned endgame. I personally thought it would take less than 30 yea…

my plan to rick-roll every major coding competition continues apace. muahahaha I actually had another entry that I felt had much more clever coding that did some nice sixel animati…

I think you'll find more systems used DRAM than SRAM. The Apple II was one of the first 6502 systems to use DRAM (in 1977) and Woz was incredibly clever in getting the refresh for …

I have to say as a 6502 assembly programmer I have wasted many hours of my life tracking down the same issue in my code (forgetting to put an # in front of an immediate value and t…

the problem is I have a whole box of composite capture cards and only one actually does a reasonably good job. I feel like it'd get expensive doing the same thing with HDMI capture…

I have to admit I'm being difficult here and want to capture the output of the composite port from the actual Apple II video circuitry. I feel like having a raspberry Pi replace th…