This article is based on historical research and on simply reading the Vim user manual cover to cover. Hopefully these notes will help you (re?)discover core functionality of the editor, so you can abandon pre-packaged vimrc files and use plugins … Read more
There are two major categories of compression algorithms: lossy and lossless. Lossy compression algorithms involve the reduction of a file’s size usually by removing small details that require a large amount of data to store at full fidelity. In lossy … Read more
If you used a Z80 chip back in the 1980’s, it almost certainly passed through this room. This photo is of the first Fairchild Sentry 610 test system at Mostek We tested every Z80 chip including Zilog branded ones in … Read more
March 12, 1989 Mar 12 1989 Information Management, a Proposal While working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee first comes up with the idea for the World Wide Web. To pitch it, he submits a proposal for organizing scientific documents to his … Read more
[ih] History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses? John Gilmore gnu at toad.com Sat Jan 2 01:38:43 PST 2021 I am in the process of sorting out various ways that the IPv4 unicast address space was historically constrained to allow fewer … Read more
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March 2022 This article is taken from the March 2022 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issue for just £10. If you’ve ever wondered how letters were delivered in … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more