The Early History Of Smalltalk original pdf / make corrections Alan C. KayApple [email protected]# Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, … Read more
Jack Cable*,2, Daniel Chiu*, Francisco Pernice*,3, Selena Zhang*,1, James Anthony1, Tetiana Bas4, Gary Shen4, Conrad Stosz1, Jacob Steinhardt1 1 Transluce · 2 Corridor · 3 MIT · 4 AIUC · *Primary contributors, listed alphabetically Transluce | Published: September 23, 2026 … Read more
Little elephant company — 7 people working out of a random house — 2013 I know we haven’t paid you for 30 days, but would you be willing to float another month? No, sorry, I’m out. Ok, sad to see … Read more
LWN.net needs you! Without subscribers, LWN would simply not exist. Please consider signing up for a subscription and helping to keep LWN publishing. My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started. Linux is now a global … Read more
In this third installment of our x86 Platforms series, following Part 2: UEFI Bootloader Management and Integration with Yocto, we’re going to explore the early kernel boot process in more depth. Specifically, we’ll cover how x86 systems handle microcode updates, … Read more
Codex Amiatinus or Codex Jarrow, completed before 716 in Northumbria, England. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatino 1. The Prophet Ezra, a scribe and priest, is illustrated in the Codex Aniatinus, the earliest and most accurate copy of Saint Jerome’s … Read more
An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoins, with mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Ver was arrested this weekend in Spain based on the U.S. criminal charges. The United States will … Read more
A Part of Fire Service History Today’s Fire Service has as part of its strategy for dealing with fires and others emergency the concept of early notification and quick response. This enables the fire department to quickly react thus enhancing … Read more
14 November 2019 November 2019 is, as best I can recall, the 40th anniversary of the conception of Usenet. (What’s Usenet? The Wikipedia article is ok but not perfect.) I should have written a proper paper; instead, there will (probably) … Read more
More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. Peter Keeling drills into the history of this submarine link, and finds a … Read more