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Re: Recent history of vi

By Nuno Silva on Sun Nov 16 00:43:50 2025

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Latter-Day Punched-Tape Reader

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tue Nov 25 05:54:54 2025

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Personal tuning of "slrn" news reader - tips?

By Lars Poulsen on Fri Nov 21 22:09:47 2025

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ISO 8859-1 ("Latin 1") (was: Recent history of vi)

By Michael Bäuerle on Wed Nov 19 14:58:00 2025

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The Origin Of The Smiley

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thu Nov 20 19:37:51 2025

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Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeo

By Juan Manuel Méndez Rey on Sun Nov 9 21:09:43 2025

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Recent history of vi (was: Re: Python/C/Pascal ... How To Choose ?)

By Nuno Silva on Sat Nov 15 09:59:39 2025

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Re: Visual Smalltalk v3.0 by Digitalk for OS/2, copyright 1994

By Dave Yeo on Wed Nov 12 20:27:31 2025

Latest reply by Louis Krupp on Mon Nov 17 22:29:47 2025
Re: Recent history of vi (was: Re: Python/C/Pascal ... How To Choose?)

By Eli the Bearded on Sat Nov 15 22:07:46 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sun Nov 16 00:45:05 2025
Windows: The Battle For An Open Standard

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tue Nov 4 00:50:01 2025

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Decades-Old DIY Sampler Mystery Solved

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Nov 10 00:58:04 2025

Latest reply by Carlos E.R. on Sat Nov 15 14:54:34 2025
the other recent post reminds me that i used to poke at old code...

By songbird on Fri Nov 14 20:15:18 2025

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Re: "Space junk" - antique electronics

By Another John on Sun Nov 9 20:12:16 2025

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"Write Buffer" for the 370/168

By James Dow Allen on Thu Oct 16 11:51:11 2025

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Programmable Shaders: Who Was First? OpenGL Or DirectX?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Nov 10 00:37:24 2025

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Re: 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++

By Peter Flass on Sun Nov 2 12:57:51 2025

Latest reply by Dan Cross on Mon Nov 10 09:08:58 2025
And The Award For Best Product Placement Of An Apple III Goes To ...

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sun Nov 9 08:38:18 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sun Nov 9 08:38:18 2025
Intel i860 Processor & Origin Of ?Windows NT? Name

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Wed Nov 5 23:07:03 2025

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Coincidence ... Or Not?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tue Nov 4 02:49:34 2025

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Re: alternative history 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++

By John Levine on Tue Nov 4 20:39:08 2025

Latest reply by John Levine on Tue Nov 4 20:39:08 2025
Present at the Creation (Re: The "Standards" Game)

By Lars Poulsen on Mon Aug 25 23:03:28 2025

Latest reply by Yeechang Lee on Sat Nov 1 14:03:35 2025
IBM Endicott Demolition Debris Can't Be Hauled from Site

By Peter Flass on Thu Oct 30 08:18:57 2025

Latest reply by David Wade on Fri Oct 31 11:30:43 2025
The Weird OS Built Around a Database

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Oct 27 07:36:31 2025

Latest reply by Al Kossow on Wed Oct 29 17:38:05 2025
AMD First Entered The CPU Market 50 Years Ago

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Oct 27 23:04:34 2025

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Recommendations for Computing Folklore Resources?

By cannonw on Sun Oct 26 19:22:35 2025

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Re: HAL Jr

By David Lesher on Sat Oct 25 19:43:11 2025

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Re: OT: "All Rights Reserved" misleading nonsense

By Janis Papanagnou on Thu Oct 23 04:56:47 2025

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Re: Switching On A VAX

By Scott Lurndal on Mon Oct 6 14:27:26 2025

Latest reply by David Lesher on Wed Oct 22 12:56:30 2025
Intel 386 Processor Came Out 40 Years Ago

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sun Oct 19 21:37:03 2025

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The Forgotten Knowledge Trapped On Floppy Disks

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Fri Oct 10 22:23:49 2025

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Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Oct 13 00:36:51 2025

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Anecdote: Assumption corruption

By Scott Lurndal on Thu Oct 16 21:07:41 2025

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Interesting timing issues on 1970s-vintage IBM mainframes

By James Dow Allen on Mon Oct 6 17:34:13 2025

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How would you fix this alignment bug?

By James Dow Allen on Sat Oct 11 17:47:07 2025

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Re: mainframes vs minis again, Switching On A VAX

By John Levine on Sun Oct 12 18:08:39 2025

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Anecdote about about NCR/Elliott/ICL 4130

By Bob Eager on Mon Oct 13 19:47:11 2025

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How Old Is X?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thu Oct 9 22:28:30 2025

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Video and pictures from the Archive of Retro Computing 2025

By RobertB on Sat Aug 30 06:40:29 2025

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Bay Area Maker Faire 2025 - Sept. 26-28

By RobertB on Sat Sep 20 16:51:03 2025

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Next FCUG meeting - Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025

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Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025

By RobertB on Fri Sep 19 04:49:40 2025

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Re: Floppies

By Kerr-Mudd, John on Tue Sep 16 13:53:10 2025

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Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Wor

By Nuno Silva on Sat Sep 6 11:17:53 2025

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Re: slow computers, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies

By John Levine on Sat Sep 6 17:38:51 2025

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Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Wo

By Alexander Schreiber on Thu Aug 28 00:40:27 2025

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Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies W

By Charlie Gibbs on Thu Sep 4 13:28:56 2025

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Re: ILP32 code on 64-bit substrate

By OrangeFish on Sat Aug 16 01:42:09 2025

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Re: VAX

By Waldek Hebisch on Thu Aug 14 05:35:09 2025

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Wetherell

By Stefan Ram on Sun Aug 31 11:54:40 2025

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V Operating System

By Anthony on Tue Aug 19 02:57:43 2025

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By Peter Flass on Tue Aug 26 05:58:47 2025

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Fear Of Forking, Revisited

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Fri Aug 22 18:17:22 2025

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Re: Early History Of C

By Jakob Bohm on Mon Aug 18 04:41:18 2025

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