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Gary Boone, who worked in the Texas Instruments (TI) MOS Department, devised the first chip that can be called a microcontroller because he was becoming bored with his job and in trouble with his family. He’d joined TI in 1969 … Read more

Ten years ago, when Python 3.0 final was released, os.listdir(str) ignored silently undecodable filenames: $ python3.0 >>> os.mkdir(b’x’) >>> open(b’x/nonasciixff’, ‘w’).close() >>> os.listdir(‘x’) [] You had to use bytes to see all filenames: >>> os.listdir(b’x’) [b’nonasciixff’] If the locale is … Read more

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of encabulation – dated from Dr. Wolfgang Albrecht Klossner’s first successful run in that historic barn on the outskirts of Eisenhüttenstadt – this article* collects in one place a number of resources … Read more

August 30th, 2019 Windows adopted Unicode before most other operating systems.[citation needed] As a result, Windows’s solutions to many problems differ from solutions adopted by those who waited for the dust to settle.¹ The most notable example of this is … Read more

UNIX History Unix History Unix Timeline Below, you can see the preview of the Unix History (move on the white zone to get a bigger image): This is a simplified diagram of unix history. There are numerous derivative systems not … Read more

Enlarge / The Acorn Archimedes 3000, released in May 1989. reader comments 126 with 0 posters participating Share this story The story so far: At the end of the 1980s, Acorn Computers was at a crossroads. A small team, led … Read more

Introduction The last two decades have fundamentally changed our understanding of cat domestication, primarily due to advances in palaeogenetic methods. Analyses of archaeological and modern felids have revealed the Near Eastern wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica) to be the common ancestor … Read more

Palomar Observatory is among the most iconic scientific facilities in the world, and a crown jewel in the research traditions of Caltech. Conceived of nearly 100 years ago, the observatory has been in continuous scientific operation since the mid-30s, and … Read more

Jump to navigation Jump to search Not to be confused with Monte Carlo algorithm. Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results. The underlying … Read more