jonjacky

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   by jonjacky 12y ago

   See Olin Shiver's advice here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/diss-advice.html
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   by jonjacky 12y ago

   I see that the original Apple I (not II) provided something similar, except with a full keyboard and video instead of keypad and LEDs. See the screenshot on this page: http://apple2history.org/history/ah02/
3. 633.▲
   by jonjacky 12y ago

   No, he's right. The PET and Apple were second generation 6502 machines - intended to be personal computers. The first 6502 products were evaluation kits like the KIM-1, which only had a keypad and seven segment LEDs for entering and
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   by jonjacky 12y ago

   See bim ("bad imitation of vim") in toaruos https://github.com/klange/toaruos/blob/strawberry-dev/usersp... mentioned in these comments in HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator
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   by jonjacky 12y ago

   They were marketed for embedded control and data acquisition in laboratories and factories. See the text on page 5, in "The hardware", where it tells how you can send your program on paper tape to DG and they send you back a rea
6. 636.▲
   by jonjacky 12y ago

   Herman Kahn was most famous as a nuclear strategist -- he wrote On Thermonuclear War in 1960, which made him one of the models for Dr. Strangelove - some of the lines in the movie are direct quotes from his book. Later he became a utopian
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   by jonjacky 12y ago

   The novel Red Plenty by Francis Spufford is about computer scientists and mathematicians in the Soviet Union in this era. Krushchev is also a character in the book, which depicts his visit to the US (but doesn't include this episode)
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   by jonjacky 12y ago

   Also pertinent: an emulator of Alto Smalltalk-72 by Dan Ingalls, the original implementor. http://lively-web.org/users/Dan/ALTO-Smalltalk-72.html It says that it is emulating the Nova instruction set - the Alto ha
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   by jonjacky 12y ago

   PH Winston's books are exactly what you are looking for: On To Java, On To C, On To C++, On To SmallTalk. They appeared around 2000 and are now on the web: http://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/OnToC/ etc. They are
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    I would add that the cumulative effect of all these examples in SICP is to demonstrate that you can solve any programming problem from first principles - that is, by combining a few simple but powerful constructs in the several ways they de
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    I recently looked at SICP again after first reading it many years ago. I had retained the overall impression that SICP demonstrates how to build many of the celebrated creations of computer science - interpreters, compilers, databases, log
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    Here is an emulator of Alto Smalltalk-72 by Dan Ingalls, the original implementor. http://lively-web.org/users/Dan/ALTO-Smalltalk-72.html It says that it is emulating the Nova instruction set - the Alto hardware
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    Schemix was "a Scheme system implemented as a patch to the Linux kernel ... for exploration of the Linux kernel and for rapid, interactive prototyping of Linux drivers and other new kernel features" http://www.abstractn
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    How about these (may have been mentioned on HN already, but not in response to your question): minime: http://daten.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/src/minime/README , also http://blog.dieweltistgarnichtso.net&
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    But also, "where in the (tree-structured) file system did I put those notes I made last year?". Strandh observes that a collection of tags is not so different from the names along a file path.
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    Several experimental systems have proposed replacing the traditional file system with what they call a "single level store": you have data structures in memory, then the OS saves them and restores them as needed from disk storage
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    See also the same author's (Stewart Brand) Rolling Stone article about SAIL, Xerox Parc, and ARPA -- written during the hippie era, in 1972! http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html It has been
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    "A tiny C compiler ... in a restricted dialect of OCaml": http://c9x.me/qcc/
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    I like this book: Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/samples.html
20. 650.▲
    by jonjacky 12y ago

    "PEG-based transformer provides front-, middle and back-end stages in a simple compiler" http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2010003_PEG.pdf
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    I recall PG wrote somewhere that Perl looks like a cartoon character swearing.
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    Paul E. Ceruzzi's A History of Modern Computing does a good job of filling in the story, as Bricklin wishes here that someone would do. It is especially good on the 1950's, 60's, and 70's, and the origins and legacy of
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    These more recent projects also made Lisp machines in FPGAs. It looks like they got further than the original post here: LispmFPGA (2008) http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/ https://groups.google.
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    Proposals to industrialize software development have a long history, for example at the NATO conferences in the 1960s which coined the term "software engineering": http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/N
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    Here is a link to Donald Knuth's eulogy for Bob Floyd: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/papers/floyd.ps.gz
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    by jonjacky 12y ago

    Here are some projects that put new Lisp machine architectures on FPGAs: LispmFPGA (2008) http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/ , https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/com
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    by jonjacky 13y ago

    Google staff members sometimes publish papers about their recent work: http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
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    by jonjacky 13y ago

    In her book The Second Self, Sherry Turkle wrote that the MIT AI Lab hackers were "loners who are never alone".
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    by jonjacky 13y ago

    Here is information and links about some unusual operating systems, including several discussed above. https://github.com/jon-jacky/Piety/blob/master/doc/precursor...
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    by jonjacky 13y ago

    Thomas Hughes' books take a wider view than most of the others mentioned so far: American Genesis covers 1870 - 1970 and Rescuing Prometheus discusses the SAGE computerized air defense system, the Atlas missile, Arpanet, and the Bosto