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I'd make the argument that TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1 covers the details of TCP/IP in a very "packet and fields" oriented way. Volume 2 goes into a lot of the "data structures and…

I agree that five books won't ever cover every discipline withing Computer Science. Just providing an introductory book, a university-level textbook, and an expert/graduate-level r…

There's almost too much volume these days. There's dedicated websites/apps/podcasts for Apple, Android, PC gaming, Xbox gaming, PS4 gaming, Switch gaming, etc. Product Hunt was a h…

Henessey and Patterson "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" has 6 published editions (1990, 1996?, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019) with the 7th due November 2025. Each edition …

TSMC's estimated costs in 2020, were $12 billion for their first fab. In 2025, their updated estimates were $65 billion for the first three fabs and $165 billion for when they get …

Adding on some of the "Oral History" series from the Computer History Museum (videos don't seem to be on YouTube): - CJ Date: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10…

I feel like this comment needs some extra emphasis, especially when it comes to third-party drivers, perhaps even more than application software.

The Windows 9x series (and earlier) were tightly coupled with x86 (and DOS). The Windows NT family of operating systems has always had the "Hardware Abstraction Layer" (aka HAL) wh…

Well, two engineers and one mathematician IIRC. I don't expect any single article to cover all the details of a company that just passed it's 30th year. And even then, they're miss…

Even prior to those guys, Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain have the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work. Kilby received the same in 2000 (Noyce passed away in 1990).

Nice post there. There's definitely a lot of 20/20 hindsight that people apply to PARC's history with respect to computing. It's clear that just the investments that Xerox did have…

I think it's important to note that much (all?) of PARCs research has been oriented around the "office of the future". In the broadest sense of that vision, they had a huge hand in…

This article gives a bit of context about Siri's history with SRI International: https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-of-sri-ventures-on-bri...

It's a fine distinction that maybe computer historians know best. Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" showed off the first computer mouse. The computer mouse that shipped with t…

Xerox went through the process of making PARC a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2002 (which is around the time the parc.com domain was created to replace the parc.xerox.com subdomain). …

The Morningstar article had a few more details that I couldn't find anywhere else: "As part of the donation, Xerox will enter into a preferred research agreement, called the Techno…

To be fair, Apple released their iPhone after building iPods for 6 years. So, it's not like they had zero experience with handheld devices at the time. Also, while Apple did create…

Which they got through their acquisition of Gaikai (considered a competitor of OnLive).

Yes. That was one of the ways to plug it in to sync. I had one for a while and carried it around in my wallet.

According to ASML, they have 4700 suppliers ( https://www.asml.com/en/company/sustainability/responsible-s... ). How many of those are essential to the development of EUV equipment…

GAAFET is the next step after FinFET to allow such small transistors to be feasible.

Not earlier than this, but Marc Brown's ACM Distinguished Dissertation from 1987 on Algorithm Animation: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/algorithm-animation I know I saw a video fro…

Maybe some other numbers are more relevant? This blog post from April 2022 mentions 1000+ services: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/continuous-delivery-at-airbnb-6ac042bc7876…

To be fair, Nvidia hired a lot of people who at some point worked at SGI and 3dfx, so there was already a lot of HPC/server/supercomputing talent working there. There are articles …

Google makes $5.5 billion of profit per month. I think they can afford to pay some of their higher performers more.