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Category Archives: history
Overview of the Z-machine
Here is a good article outlining the Z-machine. This is the machine that runs all of the Infocom text adventures including Zork for which the virtual machine is named. This is some really interesting engineering and you can still see … Continue reading
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Computers are Getting Faster
I was recently reading another multi-core doom and gloom article.. My daughter looks over my shoulder to ask me what I’m reading. Me: Computers are getting faster Daughter: Ours? Me: No, new computers Daughter: Oh… The truth of the matter … Continue reading
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Annotated 4k Altair Assembly
As a big fan of computer history and folklore I found this extremely interesting . http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/altair/index2.html “SyntaxCheck (RST 1) Here is a truly beautiful piece of code, it’s Golden Weasel richly deserved. It’s used at run-time to check syntax in … Continue reading
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The history of the C language
This is a good read for anyone interested in computer history: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html “After the TMG version of B was working, Thompson rewrote B in itself (a bootstrapping step). During development, he continually struggled against memory limitations: each language addition inflated … Continue reading
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