CR+LF Has a Long History
The ASR33, like most teletypes of the era, works at a fixed rate. It does 10 characters per second. It is 110 Baud, using 1 start, 8 data (inc parity), and 2 stop, so 10cps Tx and 10cps Rx; 10cps printing; 10cps punching tape; 10cps reading tape; 10cps maximum typing speed. Everything happens based on […]
History of energy consumption in the United States, 1775–2009 (2011)
February 9, 2011 Energy consumption patterns have changed over the history of our country as we developed new energy sources and as our uses of energy changed. Wood (a renewable energy source) served as the preeminent form of energy until the mid- to late-1800s, even though water mills were important to some early industrial growth. […]
The history of Berkeley DB: A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson
Interviews November 18, 2021Volume 19, issue 5 PDF Interview The history of Berkeley DB Kirk McKusick sat down with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson to discuss the history of Berkeley DB, for which they won the ACM Software System Award in 2021. Kirk McKusick has spent his career as a BSD and FreeBSD developer. […]
A History of the Rubinius Ruby JIT
Rubinius Rubinius began as a metacircular implementation of Ruby and was billed as Ruby in Ruby. Today the core and much of the standard library, parser, bytecode compiler, and other components are implemented in Ruby, but the interpreter, runtime, GC and other components, are written in C++. Rubinius removed their JIT in 2016, due to […]
An oral history of Bank Python
November 2021 The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks High finance is a foreign country; they do things differently there Today will I take you through the keyhole to look at a group of software systems not well known to the public, which I call ”Bank Python”. Bank Python implementations are […]
History of Lisp (1979) [pdf]
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8 Bits of history: My first game is still available on the internet
I was somewhere around eight or nine when the 8 bit era of personal computers started getting into action. Of course down in Australia, everything was 2 years behind what was happening in the US. My first real experience of computers wasn’t a fat minicomputer over an acoustic coupler, or an S100 based Altair clone, […]
History of PaaS: How Canon almost became a major cloud provider
This post is first of the 3-part History of PaaS series. When you hear the term “PaaS” (i.e. Platform as a Service), Heroku is probably the first platform that comes to your mind. However, while Heroku did play a significant role in establishing PaaS as its own class of product, it was not the first […]
History of Hacking the Nintendo 3DS [pdf]
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The lost history of the electric car – and the future of transport
In the 1890s, the biggest cities of the western world faced a mounting problem. Horse-drawn vehicles had been in use for thousands of years, and it was hard to imagine life without them. But as the number of such vehicles increased during the 19th century, the drawbacks of using horses in densely populated cities were […]