DOS Days – Laptop Displays(dosdays.co.uk)

68 points by nullbyte808 11 months ago | 14 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7(kevinboone.me)

90 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 58 comments

UgBASIC – An isomorphic BASIC language compiler for retrocomputers(ugbasic.iwashere.eu)

49 points by reaperducer 3 years ago | 13 comments

BBC Basic returns on multiple platforms, open sourced(bbcbasic.co.uk)

216 points by tomcam 2 years ago | 86 comments

OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors(miod.online.fr)

141 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 22 comments

Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00(pcjs.org)

156 points by ingve 3 years ago | 79 comments

Turbo Haskell(comonad.com)

188 points by pjmlp 25 days ago | 48 comments

Edward Kmett blog post on The Comonad.Reader titled Turbo Haskell, covering a Haskell compiler for the JVM: borrowing libraries, evaluation and concurrency, SIMD, and tail calls.

The early days of Linux (2023)(lwn.net)

422 points by stmw 1 year ago | 125 comments

LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recalling his memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki, and its early growth.

Turbo Pascal Turns 40(blog.marcocantu.com)

400 points by andsoitis 2 years ago | 231 comments

Marco Cantù blog post marking the 40th anniversary of Borland's Turbo Pascal, introduced in November 1983 as an early popular IDE.

The early days of Linux(lwn.net)

1199 points by Paul-Craft 3 years ago | 198 comments

LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recounting his memories of the earliest days of Linux and his time with Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki.

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation(devblogs.microsoft.com)

465 points by paulmooreparks 4 months ago | 149 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post recounting how a Windows x86-32 emulator team, using binary translation, patched badly written application code during emulation.

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)(computerhistory.org)

416 points by tosh 10 months ago | 127 comments

Computer History Museum blog post releasing and discussing the source code of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 for Macintosh from 1990.