A Look at Rust from 2012

Powerset’s natural language search system (2012)

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How Slide Rules Work

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Dotcom Survivor Syndrome – How Perl’s Early Success Created the Seeds of Its Downfall

50th Anniversary of BitBLT

The Origins of Scala (2009)

Memories of .us

Behind the scenes on how Windows 95 application compatibility patched broken programs

Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios

Man Pages (Part 1)

The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory

The Complexity of Simplicity

The Mozilla Museum (2000)

Historical Reasons

How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere (1998)

Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance

The roots of software development in the textile industry (2024)

How we organized the Rust Clippy feature freeze

How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

Oral History of Ken Thompson [video]

Reminiscing about Turbo Pascal

Dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming (1978)

Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns (2010)

NewPipe Is Turning 10

The QNX Operating System

Stone Tools: Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era

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