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In Germany this was certainly true, as the local distributor CPS put out their own "Sound Blaster" cards for a while until stopped by a lawsuit. IIRC they were rebranded Aztech sou…

There's also Renoise, which tries to marry the contemporary DAW with a tracker-style timeline. https://www.renoise.com

On the same page (for me): "Silicon Valley needs to get God" Well, seems it already did.

Beowulf cluster time for old Pixels?

> I love that there are compilers beside the big 2 Whatever happened to Tendra?

Surprised that this isn't part of a "journey"…

One interesting predecessor were the versioned files of time-sharing systems. You can still access Donald Knuth's directory tree for example, and see that a lot of files have diffe…

I once had some Norwegian room mates in Ireland, and whenever we collectively couldn't find the proper English word, we usually got lucky with our native tongues. When listening to…

Like a more devious Lingua::Romana::Perligata? https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...

No mention of Algol? Or Mesa?

> Why is everyone compelled to write one of these articles? LinkedIn clout.

Enlightenment always had a pretty weird value proposition. In the very beginning, there was "fvwm-xpm" and early "E" prototypes. They were graphically crazy with a heavy focus on s…

> Teapot is pretty great, it's too bad there is close to zero room for real innovation in the spreadsheet domain. One issue is that this is hard to do while still retaining backwar…

Way back in the days, I always thought that Tcl/Tk had a pretty good packaging story compared to the P-languages, given the presence of Starkits-/packs[1], and (somewhat sadly) the…

Maybe it's time to get out my Cowlishaw Rexx book again…

I'd say most people run Emacs in the GUI mode, not in a terminal. So these days, you're pretty much on the same level as most rivals. Sadly, "these days" is a low bar. The days of …

I remember playing at least one game without the mouse, to save those precious KBs…

People doing DTP with Calamus on their Ataris stuck around for a long time after the systems weren't used for much else – MIDI tooling excepted, of course. On the other hand, there…

One thing I always liked about some older languages was being able to have blanks in identifiers. Although I see that they actually managed to invent a new stropping variant that d…

So Copilot in Office is the new "Hall of Tortured Souls"?

> motif had the opposite of versionitis I basically meant that we could've avoided the (needless) versionitis of gtk , the toolkit once introduced to rewrite a Motif-based applicat…

That's a cruel alternate universe, I would've hoped that Motif being in use by more people than just the devs of one homebrew Unix desktop would mean that we wouldn't have suffered…

I'm also pretty sure that there was an "Elixir" in IT before there was the language said framework is written in… I mean, given that the letter "X" is in both Unix and X11, I'm pre…

Don't a lot of courts use/mandate Century? Just use that. Better than TNR. If you can't afford a custom font…

Seems everyone has. Which is weird, given how bad everything looks despite this focus. I'm not sure what's going on in the design world. I mean, of course there's the influence of …