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So, I have returned to the fold.

By Dave Shevett on Mon Oct 26 02:59:31 2026

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Re: ?This Is Not a Drill?: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the

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Re: what's a process, was The end of software secrecy is almost upon

By John Levine on Sun Oct 25 18:17:44 2026

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Re: ?The end of software secrecy is almost upon

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Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

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Re: DEC's Conversational Programming Language CPL

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Threads and processes (Re: ?The end of software secrecy is almost upon)

By Lars Poulsen on Mon Oct 26 19:14:57 2026

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Re: ?The end of software secrecy is almost upon us?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sat Oct 24 03:39:07 2026

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Threads and processes (was: Re: "The end of software secrecy is almost

By Nuno Silva on Sun Oct 25 23:48:24 2026

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Re: ?The end of software secrecy is almost upon us"

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wed Oct 14 23:02:38 2026

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Photos and mini-videos from Bay Area + Rocklin Maker Faires

By RobertB on Thu Oct 22 00:27:02 2026

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Re: "The end of software secrecy is almost upon us"

By Dan Cross on Mon Oct 19 02:03:47 2026

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News from The National Museum of Computing

By David LaRue on Fri Oct 16 13:33:09 2026

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Cycle times of IBM mainframes in the mid-1970s

By James Dow Allen on Sun Oct 11 11:47:25 2026

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Harvest time!

By David Lesher on Thu Oct 1 02:06:08 2026

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origin of XGP fonts (was Re: reprints of old AI memos)

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Mon Sep 28 10:44:18 2026

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Classic computers at the Maker Faire Rocklin 2026

By RobertB on Sun Sep 27 07:17:35 2026

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Dinner with John Levine

By Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson on Wed Sep 23 02:01:34 2026

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Re: XML in Pythong

By Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson on Fri Sep 25 23:21:31 2026

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Classic computers at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2026

By RobertB on Sat Sep 19 05:40:48 2026

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Usent history (was Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum techn

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Sun Sep 6 11:08:46 2026

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What does this do on a 68K-based Mac?

By sean on Tue Sep 22 23:28:01 2026

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position-independent code (was Re: CMS, Self-hosting and the 6502)

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Fri Sep 11 09:42:23 2026

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Question re postscript and pdf

By Carlos E.R. on Thu Sep 10 19:57:33 2026

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Computes at CERN (Re: history of ASCII and IBM ratfucking, and the VAX

By Lars Poulsen on Sun Sep 13 14:56:20 2026

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history of ASCII and IBM ratfucking, and the VAX (was Re: CMS, Self-hos

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Fri Sep 11 09:05:42 2026

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segments and architectural experimentation (was Re: segments, was Self-

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Fri Sep 11 08:13:05 2026

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Usenet-Rewind: search engine for Usenet messages back to 1981

By Craig Stadler on Sun Sep 6 06:12:18 2026

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Old cables and other things to hoard (Re: The Return Of Cassette Tape)

By Lars Poulsen on Sun Aug 30 06:48:04 2026

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The Return Of Cassette Tape

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sun Aug 23 23:43:49 2026

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This is interesting

By Mark Shaw on Thu Sep 10 21:17:08 2026

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Re: Postscript in 4tH

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Tue Sep 8 22:38:58 2026

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. and .. in the VFS (was: Re: Origin Of Filename Extension Dot Separato

By Nuno Silva on Tue Aug 25 00:20:17 2026

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Tops-10 filename/extension representation [was Re: Origin Of Filename E

By Rich Alderson on Tue Aug 25 16:15:43 2026

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Re: Origin Of Filename ... text and civilization? doomsday?

By Rich Alderson on Sat Aug 29 18:31:18 2026

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Re: The Amarna Letters, Hebrew -- wait, which brew? (was: Re: Origin Of

By John Ames on Thu Sep 3 08:02:04 2026

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How Apple?s OS X/macOS Became ?UNIX?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thu Sep 3 02:24:56 2026

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Re: Origin Of ..... Darklands the video game? Medieval Europe?

By Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson on Thu Sep 3 00:06:33 2026

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Connector, plugs and socket naming (was: Re: The Return Of Cassette Tap

By Nuno Silva on Mon Aug 31 10:18:50 2026

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boxing all integers (was Re: Resources to learn common lisp?)

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Sat Aug 29 17:52:49 2026

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Re: The Return Of Cassette Tape ... and punch cards?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Fri Aug 28 22:20:31 2026

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World?s First Webcam Was Finally Switched Off 25 Years Ago Today

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Aug 24 01:22:16 2026

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the history of Java in Android (was Re: What?s Your Least Favourite Pro

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Fri Aug 28 20:27:04 2026

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Re: Origin Of Filename Extension Dot Separator

By anthk on Mon Aug 17 23:57:34 2026

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Re: SPL/3000 (was Re: Alternatives to C)

By Kragen Javier Sitaker on Fri Aug 28 15:28:39 2026

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Dad jokes of alt.folklore.computers

By Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson on Sun Aug 23 16:56:55 2026

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Re: comp.risks -- PGN died a few months ago

By David Lesher on Wed Aug 26 23:09:33 2026

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Re: UNIX certification (was: Whatever Happened To Document-Centric Comp

By Bob Eager on Fri Aug 7 17:18:18 2026

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The Origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and Its Evolution at NeXT

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tue Aug 18 23:41:28 2026

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Re: Engineer Identifies & Explains Every ?90s =?UTF

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Re: Tim King

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Re: Remember when discussions were worth reading?

By Scott Alfter on Fri Aug 7 21:23:38 2026

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Re: The Weave

By Lars Poulsen on Sun Aug 9 07:03:49 2026

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MAP - Manufacturing Automation Protocol (Re: The Weave)

By Lars Poulsen on Sun Aug 9 15:39:06 2026

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IBM Channel Interface (Re: The Weave)

By Lars Poulsen on Sun Aug 9 15:29:48 2026

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Interface connectors (Re: The Weave)

By Lars Poulsen on Sun Aug 9 13:13:54 2026

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