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

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·kemarin dulu·0 comments

The Peak and Collapse of Digital Research

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·11 hari yang lalu·0 comments

Kay Nishi and the Meeting That Started MS-DOS

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·2 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Pointer-Stable Dynamic Arrays

vectrx.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·3 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Why IBM Turned to Microsoft for Basic

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
5 points·by whobre·3 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

An Atari 8-bit Computer Timeline

goto10retro.com
3 points·by whobre·3 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·4 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

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

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
4 points·by whobre·4 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

AArch64 Bitfield Move (BFM) Instruction

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·4 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

They Think

ericsilberstein1.github.io
3 points·by whobre·5 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Death of Software. Nah

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
27 points·by whobre·5 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·7 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

The Spherical Cows of Programming

programmingsimplicity.substack.com
31 points·by whobre·9 bulan yang lalu·46 comments

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

computeradsfromthepast.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·10 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
247 points·by whobre·tahun lalu·289 comments

comments

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

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