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There was also DesQView/X, an X Windows server for DOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview#DESQview/X

The article discusses the court case, janitor at the observatory the accused.

Cyan shipped at least one Hypercard game, before Myst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhole

1000x this. The single most soul-crushing experience I have on today's tech is the whoopee cushion. I type this on a touch device that randomly Cheevers the words. (It literally ch…

This is what addiction looks like. I wonder what the average interest rate is these days... I just saw a credit card with a usual (non-penalty) annual interest rate of 28%. Perhaps…

> Nimitz’s first operational deployment to the Mediterranean began on July 7, 1976. 50 years.

My hot tale on the ground in 1990 was that Russia treated Estonia like an imperial colony. Forced mass relocation of Russian citizens into the country after World War II, all child…

I wonder if these planets are more conventional gas giants with extensive rings. I'm trying to understand how they can role out occultation by ring systems but I haven't seen it ye…

When I first encountered this story, it felt like utter madness, something Philip K. Dick would write. It's been wild to reflect upon this story during this past decade.

I was very fortunate to spend a few weeks in Tallinn in the summer of 1990, an astonishing time to be there. Estonia emerged as a tech startup incubator in those first few years of…

This 32-bit microcontroller has 1 kB of RAM. The Apple Disk II Controller discussed yesterday used two 256-byte ROM chips and a shift register for dynamic memory. https://news.ycom…

We need "How to talk to your legislators about zero-knowledge proofs".

I'm reading through the comments here before reading the actual Atlantic story, so I didn't see the author's name until you mention it: > Bogost's statement is akin to calling the …

I think that people are still underestimating the technical merits of Intel's 18A fabrication process. I haven't seen any competitor even try to address the backside power delivery…

Excellent! This made me remember that I've still got a G4 Mac Mini! I was bringing up a current Linux on it, last time I had it running. 2019, perhaps. I need to fire it up...

Former AnandTech editor Gavin Bonshor had reports that the M7 would be manufactured on Intel's 18A node. https://bontechlabs.com/news/apple-is-reportedly-using-intel... Given the r…

If anyone wants to buy a refurbished PowerPC Mac, I've had good luck in the past with Operator Headgap. http://www.headgapstore.com This is one of those hobby businesses that got o…

MC6809 forever! (The Hitachi clone is also quite nice.)

FGCS: the Fifth-Generation Computing System I was really excited about this initiative at the time, just starting my computer science undergrad degree. Hardware that ran Prolog as …

Classic Mac OS aliases are similar to shortcuts on Windows; they are not symbolic links but rather actual files that record the path to the target. I want to call such aliases "nor…

> Have you considered the fact the majority of the US is not designed for public transit, or it doesn’t exist at all? There exist societies that have made different choices. The ca…

> Why aren't more US citizens in grad school for STEM if it is so valuable to us? Graduate research in the United States is often an exercise in exploitation of cheap labor. China …

Even with perfect information regarding R&D outcomes, capitalism is competitive. Capitalism is duplication of effort. I've never been particularly convinced by the crusade to elimi…

Sad news for my GatorBox routers. On the other hand, now they will have less competition. (What's that? Just keep using an older version of Linux? What kind of retro troglodytes do…

We certainly weren't ready for the stupidity explosion...