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

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·yesterday·0 comments

The Peak and Collapse of Digital Research

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·10 days ago·0 comments

Kay Nishi and the Meeting That Started MS-DOS

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·2 months ago·0 comments

Pointer-Stable Dynamic Arrays

vectrx.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·3 months ago·0 comments

Why IBM Turned to Microsoft for Basic

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
5 points·by whobre·3 months ago·0 comments

An Atari 8-bit Computer Timeline

goto10retro.com
3 points·by whobre·3 months ago·1 comments

Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·4 months ago·0 comments

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

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
4 points·by whobre·4 months ago·0 comments

AArch64 Bitfield Move (BFM) Instruction

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·4 months ago·0 comments

They Think

ericsilberstein1.github.io
3 points·by whobre·5 months ago·0 comments

Death of Software. Nah

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
27 points·by whobre·5 months ago·1 comments

An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·7 months ago·0 comments

The Spherical Cows of Programming

programmingsimplicity.substack.com
31 points·by whobre·9 months ago·46 comments

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

computeradsfromthepast.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·9 months ago·0 comments

I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
247 points·by whobre·last year·289 comments

comments

whobre
·2 days ago·discuss
I like it! Is it still being produced given that Z80 has been discontinued?
whobre
·8 days ago·discuss
This is the book to read if you are interested in the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code
whobre
·13 days ago·discuss
Roman Empire did not "ceased to be" in 476; all it happened that year was that an usurper was deposed.
whobre
·24 days ago·discuss
By now, the dude must have developed something ridiculously successful and got filthy rich /s
whobre
·last month·discuss
Or concurrent cp/m?
whobre
·last month·discuss
GEM ran on MSDOS and GEMDOS
whobre
·last month·discuss
Ditto. Metro was the best graphic UI I ever used. I liked even on the laptop.
whobre
·last month·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
·last month·discuss
In 1981, one could write a z80 assembly program for cp/m and it would run on thousands of different computer models.
whobre
·last month·discuss
Time to switch to PL/I
whobre
·last month·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
·2 months ago·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
·2 months ago·discuss
> A leopard can't change his shorts.

But it can get old and lose its teeth...
whobre
·2 months ago·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
·2 months ago·discuss
Back in 1998, that would have been a legitimate concern…
whobre
·2 months ago·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
·2 months ago·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
·2 months ago·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
·2 months ago·discuss
Sorry, but that’s some ivory tower wishful thinking.
whobre
·2 months ago·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…