Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?(twitter.com)

559 points by dceddia 3 years ago | 509 comments

Tweet by Julio Merino showing a video of a ~2000-era 600MHz PC running Windows NT 3.51 and opening apps very quickly.

Ed Fredkin has died(twitter.com)

108 points by masswerk 3 years ago | 25 comments

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz(twitter.com)

27 points by laxmena 4 months ago | 8 comments

Niklaus Wirth has died(twitter.com)

1796 points by aarroyoc 2 years ago | 329 comments

A post on X by Bertrand Meyer announcing that Niklaus Wirth, pioneer of programming languages and software engineering, died on January 1, 2024.

Rp2040 runs unmodified PalmOS 5.2.8(twitter.com)

84 points by mariuz 3 years ago | 19 comments

FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs(twitter.com)

331 points by gslin 3 years ago | 314 comments

Tweet by Colin Percival noting that FreeBSD booting in Firecracker spends 7% of its time bubblesorting SYSINITs, prompting a switch to a faster sort.