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"Analyzing the structure of the Tractatus, we found a style of outline with useful properties that is not supported by modern outliners." [1] 1. https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/2008-12-06
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Michele Pasin's PhiloSurfical web app did a visualization of the Tractatus in the early 2000s, using Common Lisp and Javascript. The app is revived here [1]. There is also code [2] and a writeup [3]. 1. http://philosurfica
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The Loyal Heights neighborhood in Seattle, named after the developer's daughter, Loyal Graef Treat.
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The Loyal Heights neighborhood in Seattle. According to Wikipedia, "established by businessman Harry Whitney Treat in 1906 as part of the independent city of Ballard. Named for his daughter Loyal Graef Treat ..."
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I don't know anything about it other than what is in those two links.
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There is an almost all-Smalltalk bare metal system for X86, CogNOS. It runs on top of NopSys, about 3500 lines of C and 600 lines of assembler for booting, accessing device registers, and responding to interrupts. But the file system etc.
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Steven Kell has noted the relevance of Illich's ideas to computing and software: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/talks/... "Ivan Illich was a 20th-century philosopher
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There have been a few Lisp processors made with FPGAs: http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/ https://opencores.org/projects/igor also https://www.flickr.com/photos/ka
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Some of the bytecodes are executed directly, others are translated to microcode sequences, others are implemented in software. From the linked paper: "... direct implementation of all bytecodes in hardware is not a useful approach ...
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Back then, a friend remarked, "It's silent when it's off"
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There was a graphical programming language for SGIs called AVS. I saw impressive scientific applications made with it: elaborate physics simulations with 3D graphics. The language and the applications seem to be completely forgotten. Thi
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Not only did he play Bilbo in the Rings movies, he memorably played Frodo in the many many episodes of the 1981 BBC radio serial version.
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A classic example would be SICP, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , by Abelson and Sussman. It is often discussed here. It does present a series of case studies that (I recall) are around 500 lines, but it's not so e
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I recommend her memoir, Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
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Possibly useful advice at https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer especially the chapters "How to Find Out Information" and "How to Utilize People as Information Sources"
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Peter Neumann's first programming job was in 1953. He is still active in CS research, and is co-author of a 2019 paper. http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/#2
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I learned Pascal by reading an equivalent book ... Jensen and Wirth, Pascal User Manual and Report . Springer. Silver cover. Typeset in typewriter font. Syntax presented both in BNF and graphic 'railroad track' diagrams. Ve
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From time to time someone suggests that the present monolithic browser could be replaced by separate programs or facilities that are coordinated by the operating system, but as far as I know, it hasn't yet been done. For example, this
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It's the 1407 Console Inquiry Station, pictured and described on p. 29 here: IBM 1401 System Summary, Sept 1964. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/1401/A24-1401-1_1...
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What is that typewriter-like console thingy? I have seen a lot of pictures and literature about IBM 1401 installations and have never seen anything like that. I thought the card reader and tape drive were the only input devices for the 1
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The recent book Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan Walsh has quite a bit about the Mel Lyman commune, then and now. It is notable that the commune still persists, even though Lyman himself apparently died in the late 1970s --
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But making Multics open source wasn't useful until the simh simulation of the processor became available. Before that, you're going to run it on what, your Honeywell mainframe?
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Kay himself says here: "Our plan and our hope was that the next generation of kids would come along and do something better than Smalltalk ..." (quoted by ssivark in the long excerpt above)
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Wonderful artwork and design in this article, and also in the linked articles and issues.
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These two old threads from Ask Metafilter might be pertinent: https://ask.metafilter.com/98291/How-does-IT-documenation-wo... (2008) https://ask.metafilter.com/111250/Document (2009)
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Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Good on prehistory: pre-computer data processing in the 19th and early 20th centuries -- there was a lot of it! --- the founding and early history
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I think that the best sections in this book are on the 1950s through the 1970s: the mainframe and minicomputer eras, and the beginnings of the Internet and personal computers. That's all in the first edition.
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Matt, may I ask how you made the documentation? It's wonderful - its appearance is so in-keeping with the whole project. The Ramforth Reference Manual cover page says 'Typeset on a Smith-Corona Coronet XL'. Did you use a wo
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A book called something like 'Quantum Mysteries for Bluffers' described his work on QED this way: Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga independently discovered quantum electrodynamics. Then Freeman Dyson explained it -- to the first th
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It's not much about maths, it's a memoir by a particular mathematician written at an unhappy point in his life, reflecting back on what he has done. It belongs more to the literature about artists and creativity, than to books of

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