I have been saving up posts from some long threads on the TUHS and COFF mailing lists, so you’re getting some esoteric history today.
- Every OS Sucks. (Youtube, via)
- Aztec C, which I did not know existed. (via)
- “romcc is a C compiler which produces binaries which do not rely on RAM, but
instead only use CPU registers.“ - Ford, first commercial BSD UNIX client. (via)
- Random facts about rand().
- Related: insults as random passphrases, a generator. (via)
- paranoia, test your computer’s floating-point ability. (via)
- Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know. (via)
- Are We Watching The Internet Die? “Habsburg AI” (via)
- The Coherent operating system. I’ve never heard of this before – a sort of clean-room UNIX. (via)
- XigmaNAS, a horribly-named FreeNAS replacement. (via)
- 20 Years of NYC*BUG and Can We Handle 20 More? April 3rd.