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The people holding up the internet

Lotus Improv on the NeXT

Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009)

A 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors

The Ferranti files: 40 years of Sinclair secrets unearthed

Genera for the Initiated: Inside Symbolics Lisp Machines

Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf]

A 40-year study of Swiss protective forests found declining stands increased across elevation zones, with drought-related losses now reaching forests up to 2,200 meters as warming erodes the historical protection from drought provided by higher elevations.

Why 0xCAFEBABE?

What Sun got wrong

"The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012)

Some (mostly historical) issues with the Unix load average

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

Beware overreliance on metaphor

The Graveyard of Good Ideas

The Story of Mel

Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

The Bikeshed email — PHKs Bikeshed

What Happened to Borland?

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

It's not the YAML spec's fault, but

Why do companies stop using Haskell?

Why do computers look like this anyway?

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

The Story of VS Code

Andy Hertzfeld oral history

How high is current immigration to the United States in historical perspective?

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