I am trying to search for OS/2 but nothing comes out. Any ideas?
It's a regular expression, and OS/2 was referred to in many ways, so try something like: "os-2|os\/2|os2" (without the quotes)
I get 136 results, from that query.
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Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#72So. Much. Modula-2. It must have been the future, there were as many compilers, ad, reviews as there were for C.
What killed Modula-2?
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#73Well this made my day. Randomly clicking on the covers, I hit on November 1979. It turns out that this issue had an article on software to solve SOMA cubes and Pentominoes written in 6502 machine code and Basic for the Pet PC. When I originally read this, 46 years ago, I had an Apple II+. So I made some adjustments to the code for the Apple in both the machine code and basic and got it working. That article (along wi…
TIL: pentominoes - tetrodominoes - trominoes - DOMINOES!
Re: Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
#74So. Much. Modula-2. It must have been the future, there were as many compilers, ad, reviews as there were for C. What killed Modula-2?
C++ killed Modula-2. Modula-2 was never as popular as Pascal had been and I suspect the fact it was descended from Pascal tainted it as a non-serious low-level systems language, although it was all that. Pascal was beaten by C so any descendant of Pascal was going to get killed by C++. Small binaries and speed was more important than safety in those days.