Enjoy!  I am going to have irregular network access over the next week, so this may be the only post for several days.

• The Eternal Mainframe.  (via)
• Compilation and Hyperthreading.
• Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool.  (via)
• Removing the PowerShell curl alias?  (via)
• Whatever Happened to Wordstar?  (via)
• Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default.  (via)
• 80’s motion graphics.  So very eighties.
• Sitting Up: A brief history of chairs.  (via)
• More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization.  (via)
• The Amiga Boing Ball Explained.  (via)
• THE GIF IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE GIF.  (via)
• The IBM System/360: the first modular, general-purpose computer.  (via)
• The Enterprise Media Distribution Platform At The End Of This Book.  I really like what happened there.  (via)
• Network operating system for a Linux-like file server.  “Hey, I’ll write my own operating system” – a common reflex.
• The Internet of Poorly Working Things.  This is sort of what the OpenBSD project has been about for a long time.  The story links to important stuff, which led me to this little genius trick.