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by jonjacky 7y ago
Ted Nelson's best-known and most influential contribution was not Xanadu, but his book Computer Lib/Dream Machines, which appeared in 1974. Doesn't anyone remember this? It was ubiquitous at the beginning of the personal co
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This is much closer to ABC notation [1] -- which the article says was an inspiration. ABC has been used for a long time by folk musicians, for example here [2]. 1. http://abcnotation.com/ 2. https://thesession.o
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Around 1980, our department shared a portable printing terminal with a built-in modem, called by its manufacturer the "Silent 700". A friend observed, "It's silent when it's off."
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Also his earlier short story collection "Whites" and his later novel "Mortals", both set in the same part of Africa as "Mating", are excellent.
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This pdf of the textbook is linked to the course page at CMU: 15-819: Specification, Verification, and Model Checking "Spec and Check!" http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15819/ I wonder when this course was taught? I l
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The author's later paper describing the Alto OS they built: http://bwlampson.site/38-AltoSoftware/WebPage.html It says "The Alto system is programmed in a variety of languages: bcpl, Mesa, and Smalltalk. Each
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If these books are science fiction, then some of the projects we see here on HN might be considered fan fiction.
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No, these are architects in 2001 looking back at earlier machines that influenced them.
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Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire? (2001) https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/admired_designs.html
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Django Girls tutorial is good -- even if you are not a girl. It is a comprehensive tutorial for novices: web, command line, Python, Django, git, hosting, deployment ... https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/
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RPi + Rust, Stanford, Winter 2018: https://downey.io/blog/cs140e-writing-an-operating-system-in... HN comments linked in my other post actually refer to the 2018 Rust class: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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RPi + C, Stanford, Winter 2019: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140e/ more in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134618
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RPi + Rust, Sept 2019: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-raspi3-OS-tutorials
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Here are some links that have appeared on HN in the last several years: 6.828, MIT: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2018/xv6.html CS140, Stanford: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/12au-cs140/ CS1
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Phil Agre was a prolific writer with many high-quality contributions on a variety of topics. Here are some samples: How to help someone use a computer: https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html R
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Community Memory [1], a counter-cultural timesharing system in the Bay Area in the early 1970s, was perhaps a step toward something like what this article discusses. Also the PLATO [2] system might have evolved into something like that.
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These old photos do not convey the noise and spectacle. The guys are in white shirts and ties, but those old machine rooms were more like a factory floor than an office. Part of the reason they were separated off was to try to contain the
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He was also among the first - maybe the first - to propose time-sharing and helped build one of the earliest time-sharing systems.
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This is pertinent (Illich is the author of Deschooling Society): Software Against Humanity? An Illichian perspective on the industrial era of software by Stephen Kell https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21&#x
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This confirms similar observations that have been made since the 1960s: many kinds of stressful life events elevate the risks of getting many kinds of illnesses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scal
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Sure, but none of that prevented you from creating and inventing and just having fun. It was an exciting time because microprocessors had just appeared and it wasn't yet clear what all might be done with them. People did amazing thing
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See the dual biography of von Neumann and Wiener that I linked above.
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There is this dual biography from 1980: John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener : from mathematics to the technologies of life and death by Steve J Heims https://archive.org/details/johnvonneumannno00heim Here is a review
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1979 - !? Your challenge might pose a dilemma if you said 1879 or 1479 - but 1979 was just yesterday. Instead of Hacker News, you would have Usenet. Instead of Google and Amazon and Microsoft and Apple you would have IBM and DEC ... and
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http://www.redballoon.net/humor/unix1.txt A is for Awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for Biff, which reads all your mail. ... but the grep entry here is different from what you remember.
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- https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~Brecht/courses/702/Possible-Reading... - for the Intel 432!
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That essay has already been written, Rob Pike's UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful [1]. It inspired a web site and project devoted to simplifying Unix [2]. [1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ [2] http:&#x2
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Regarding browsers, a reasonable complaint is that even if you want to, and have the skills it is far too difficult to modify a browser or use its parts to build something else. This might be fixed by better design, as somebody noted in
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The personal computer here is the Olivetti Programma 101 from 1965. This interesting machine has been discussed several times on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=olivetti+programma
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VMS was mostly written in Bliss, a high-level language, not VAX assembler. When you bought a VAX, it came with a box of microfiche cards showing the VMS source code.

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