Articles by SeenNotHeard
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Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved (cnn.com)

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There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada (hackaday.com)

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Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Why Unix requires mount points (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal (sites.google.com)

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Neuromancer is in production (bsky.app)

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I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video] (youtube.com)

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The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish (scottandrew.com)

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Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux (arstechnica.com)

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What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Multiple security issues in Screen:"suffers from lack of manpower and expertise" (lwn.net)

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A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and MORICONS.DLL (microsoft.com)

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C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64 (theoasisbbs.com)

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Did John Lennon think he was Jesus? (ian-leslie.com)

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Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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A look back at Coherent OS, a 1980s Unix lookalike ported to PCs (itsfoss.com)

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Photo of the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi is the perfect album cover (typo.social)

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DOS APPEND (os2museum.com)

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Altair 8800 kits went on sale December 19, 1974 (homeip.net)

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The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (kottke.org)

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Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Why is the term "card" used in "expansion card"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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So It Goes: GHQ, Kurt Vonnegut's WWII Board Game (spacebiff.com)

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The $621M Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet' (rollingstone.com)

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How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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There is no clear etymology for calloc (hachyderm.io)

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What Happened to Egghead Software? (homeip.net)

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Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

4

Generative AI Will Be a Boon for Public Domain Unless Copyright Blocks It (techdirt.com)

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Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Why did Steve Jobs choose Motorola 68030 for the first NeXT and not Intel 80386? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Was there any computer since about 1960 without interrupt support? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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How did Atari lose money on home computers? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Why didn't Microsoft use a well-known algorithm like RSA for phone activation? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Specimen cards holds complete snapshot of last type foundries in Germany (letterformarchive.org)

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Who invented file extensions in file names? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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The Journalist and the Influencer (compactmag.com)

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Did Apple advise customers to lift up and then drop their computers? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Andrew Plotkin: Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea (zarfhome.com)

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Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Why was BASIC's INT() a floor, and not a truncate? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Survey: State of HTML 2023 (devographics.com)

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Dt: Duct tape for your Unix pipes (dt.plumbing)

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Interactions Impacts Coincidences in First Golden Age of Computer Architecture [pdf] (techviser.com)

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John Mashey offers tidbits on Unix and C early history (mstdn.social)

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What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? (Mac OS X) (quora.com)

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Technical Debt Is Over-Used (peakd.com)