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whobre

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Banning AI in Law School: We've Seen This Before

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·أول أمس·0 comments

The Peak and Collapse of Digital Research

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·قبل 11 يومًا·0 comments

Kay Nishi and the Meeting That Started MS-DOS

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·قبل شهرين·0 comments

Pointer-Stable Dynamic Arrays

vectrx.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·قبل 3 أشهر·0 comments

Why IBM Turned to Microsoft for Basic

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
5 points·by whobre·قبل 3 أشهر·0 comments

An Atari 8-bit Computer Timeline

goto10retro.com
3 points·by whobre·قبل 3 أشهر·1 comments

Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

Gary Kildall, Bill Gates and the "Gentleman's Agreement"

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
4 points·by whobre·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

AArch64 Bitfield Move (BFM) Instruction

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

They Think

ericsilberstein1.github.io
3 points·by whobre·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

Death of Software. Nah

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
27 points·by whobre·قبل 5 أشهر·1 comments

An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·قبل 7 أشهر·0 comments

The Spherical Cows of Programming

programmingsimplicity.substack.com
31 points·by whobre·قبل 9 أشهر·46 comments

MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from SCO (1987)

computeradsfromthepast.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·قبل 10 أشهر·0 comments

When the IBM PC Came to Town

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·قبل 11 شهرًا·0 comments

Counting Leading Zeros in a Byte

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·قبل 11 شهرًا·0 comments

Alan Sugar of Amstrad Speaks to Practical Computing (1985)

computeradsfromthepast.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·قبل 11 شهرًا·0 comments

If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
130 points·by whobre·قبل 12 شهرًا·111 comments

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 Is Coming to Kickstarter This Saturday

specnext.com
3 points·by whobre·قبل 12 شهرًا·0 comments

A Tale of Two Red-Bearded Visionaries

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
28 points·by whobre·قبل 12 شهرًا·5 comments

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whobre
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
I like it! Is it still being produced given that Z80 has been discontinued?
whobre
·قبل 10 أيام·discuss
This is the book to read if you are interested in the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code
whobre
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
Roman Empire did not "ceased to be" in 476; all it happened that year was that an usurper was deposed.
whobre
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
By now, the dude must have developed something ridiculously successful and got filthy rich /s
whobre
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Or concurrent cp/m?
whobre
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
GEM ran on MSDOS and GEMDOS
whobre
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Ditto. Metro was the best graphic UI I ever used. I liked even on the laptop.
whobre
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Right. I am saying there is a difference between portable and non portable assembly code. If you interacted with the machine via call 05h interface, it was portable. If you accessed computer’s video memory buffer directly it wasn’t.
whobre
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
In 1981, one could write a z80 assembly program for cp/m and it would run on thousands of different computer models.
whobre
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Time to switch to PL/I
whobre
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Gary Kildall was unable to understand why IBM insisted on using a simplistic CP/M clone, when DRI had a multitasking operating system in 1979.

The PC industry just didn’t care.
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
That's exactly what's happening. Many claim they are more productive with AI, but individual rise in productivity just doesn't translate to projects being completed any sooner.

And by "projects", I mean corporate ones with big teams involved. Hobby projects actually do get finished much faster.
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
> A leopard can't change his shorts.

But it can get old and lose its teeth...
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
There was a rumor of MS and DRI having a non-aggression pact before 1981: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/gary-kildall-bill-g...
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Back in 1998, that would have been a legitimate concern…
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
They developed something called M-DOS or MIDAS in 1979, but by that time CP/M was already established, so they decided against releasing it.
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
That dude needs to fix his shift key.

That aside, the job market has been horrible for recent graduates in the last three years and it’s just a fact.
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
> The founder of British computer maker Raspberry Pi has warned that overestimating the abilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) could put people off pursuing tech jobs and hurt the economy.

Of course the key word is “overestimating” and it’s omitted from the title.

“Journalism” nowadays…
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Sorry, but that’s some ivory tower wishful thinking.
whobre
·قبل شهرين·discuss
< Rewind to 1973. The operating system common on microcomputers was CP/M

OK. I love Raymond’s blog but this is crazy. Microcomputers existed only as a prototype in 1973 (things like Intel’s Intellec dev systems) and there were no operating systems for them. Strictly speaking, Kildall did start developing CP/M in 1973, but at that point it ran only on a simulator on a PDP-10 mainframe.

1979, sure. 1973? Way too early…