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The Axis That Made the Chips

Win16 Memory Management

How did software get so reliable without proof? (1996)

Exploring the Japanese XD FirstClass Network BBS

The soul of maintaining a new machine

HP QuickWeb, Singular and Pointless

Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist?

A portentous reunion

The Architecture of BerkeleyDB

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?

Bournegol??? (2014)

Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange

Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop

IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

The Age of the Amplifier

How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory

dBase: 1979-2026

The Most Emacs Bzr Saga

Just How Bad Was The Intel IAPX432?

Pokemon Gen2 compression myth

I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

A Personal History of APL (1982) - Michael S. Montalbano

Voice Modems

ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips

What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)

What Really Happened in Y2K?

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