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> Supposedly, Apple put in a bid at the last minute with the state and won the school contract, and they had a virtual monopoly in the public schools in Minnesota. Dale LaFrenz, wh…

Although ACM Queue's audience is practitioners, author submissions to Queue are invite-only. CACM's new Practice section encourages submissions from outside academia.

By "pixel accurate", do you mean the user interface or the rendering? Is she able to leverage the HTML 2D Canvas API or does she have to go lower level than that?

As a a starting point, "The Origins of PostScript" ( https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/2018-warnock.pdf ) provides a few details on the language and Gaffney's involvement. Wa…

Inspired by similar tales, my friends and I made a game about it ( https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/474859/artful-an... ) with the twist that the art is stealing itself.…

Author here. Thank you for the feedback. I may tackle a history of the registries from netlib and CTAN forward in the near future. For this article, I deliberately kept the scope l…

The author of TECO, Dan Murphy, wrote an article about its history for the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing . A PDF copy of the article is available here: https://opost.com/…

https://ztoz.blog Programming topics with an emphasis on computing history

Dramatically, the Dartmouth experiment in teaching BASIC to all undergraduates could be profitable. Although they didn't use PDPs (they used a GE-265), it was the same time period.…

Self-promotion: If you're interested in the MUSIC-V language (the software the catalogue uses) or the hardware, I created a video on the subject a few months ago: https://rumble.co…

One resource to try is SIGCIS ( https://www.sigcis.org/); it's a professional group of computing historians and a number of retired practitioners. However, historians don't tend to…

A more quantitative approach can be found in a pair of papers from John C Nesbit, who analyzed ten algorithms in 1985/86 ( https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-computer-based…

I used my sabbatical to research and write a history paper. One of my colleagues used his sabbatical to just spend the summer with his kids.

Yes, we use Akka for all the actors. Akka has two types of actors: typed and untyped. Typed actors allow the compiler to type check messages, while untyped (or classic actors) perf…

We use them both implicitly (underlying Akka Streams) and explicitly (both classic untyped actors and typed actors). For the explicit actors, we use them to model state machines ar…

My former employer did coding assessments for roles of that type, although the expectations were very different than for a software development role. For these kinds of roles, the …