SeenNotHeard

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Windows Disk Defragmentation Game(keithcirkel.co.uk)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 9d ago|0 comments
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When Japan Tried to Create Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s(tokyoweekender.com)
9 points by SeenNotHeard 17d ago|1 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 24d ago
GTA Baghdad by the Bay
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Was x86 segmented address aliasing a pitfall or an advantage actual code used?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 24d ago|0 comments
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Why does DOS include "get interrupt vector" and "set interrupt vector" syscalls?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
4 points by SeenNotHeard 2mo ago|0 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 2mo ago
In my youth, his InfoWorld columns were appointment reading. A one-of-a-kind in the industry.
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AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes(nicholas-afk.github.io)
35 points by SeenNotHeard 2mo ago|18 comments
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The Relaunch of the Old West and Why I Chose Vanilla PHP(blog.alexseifert.com)
5 points by SeenNotHeard 4mo ago|1 comments
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IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields(devblogs.microsoft.com)
397 points by SeenNotHeard 5mo ago|240 comments
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San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names(j-nelson.net)
29 points by SeenNotHeard 5mo ago|47 comments
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Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
105 points by SeenNotHeard 7mo ago|82 comments
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Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
66 points by SeenNotHeard 7mo ago|76 comments
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How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
7 points by SeenNotHeard 10mo ago|5 comments
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A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice(utcc.utoronto.ca)
116 points by SeenNotHeard 10mo ago|107 comments
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The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved(cnn.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 10mo ago|1 comments
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There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada(hackaday.com)
8 points by SeenNotHeard 10mo ago|0 comments
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Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 11mo ago|0 comments
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Why Unix requires mount points(utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 11mo ago|0 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 1y ago
One limitation not mentioned is that Action! didn't support recursion. This had to do with how local variables were stored. Whether it was the best language for 8-bit programming, it certainly was a great fit for the 6502, as the lang
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Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal(sites.google.com)
7 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|2 comments
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Neuromancer is in production(bsky.app)
4 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|0 comments
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I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video](youtube.com)
1 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|0 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 1y ago
There have been attempts, the results were not promising: https://intfiction.org/t/first-full-game-available-on-new-ll...
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The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish(scottandrew.com)
191 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|45 comments
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Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux(arstechnica.com)
7 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|0 comments
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What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|0 comments
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The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
35 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|15 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 1y ago
Sure. Another comes from Jim Thompson, who said there was only one kind of story: "Things are not as they seem."
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A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and MORICONS.DLL(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|1 comments
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by SeenNotHeard 1y ago
MORICONS.DLL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250507-00/?p=11...

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