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

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·9 giờ trước·0 comments

The Peak and Collapse of Digital Research

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·9 ngày trước·0 comments

Kay Nishi and the Meeting That Started MS-DOS

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·2 tháng trước·0 comments

Pointer-Stable Dynamic Arrays

vectrx.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·3 tháng trước·0 comments

Why IBM Turned to Microsoft for Basic

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
5 points·by whobre·3 tháng trước·0 comments

An Atari 8-bit Computer Timeline

goto10retro.com
3 points·by whobre·3 tháng trước·1 comments

Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·4 tháng trước·0 comments

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

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
4 points·by whobre·4 tháng trước·0 comments

AArch64 Bitfield Move (BFM) Instruction

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·4 tháng trước·0 comments

They Think

ericsilberstein1.github.io
3 points·by whobre·5 tháng trước·0 comments

Death of Software. Nah

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
27 points·by whobre·5 tháng trước·1 comments

An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·7 tháng trước·0 comments

The Spherical Cows of Programming

programmingsimplicity.substack.com
31 points·by whobre·9 tháng trước·46 comments

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

computeradsfromthepast.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·9 tháng trước·0 comments

I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
247 points·by whobre·năm ngoái·289 comments

comments

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

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