ST-DOS(sininenankka.dy.fi)

184 points by snvzz 2 years ago | 43 comments

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8(utf-8000.jb2170.com)

119 points by vismit2000 1 month ago | 100 comments

T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language(t3x.org)

33 points by AlexeyBrin 2 months ago | 0 comments

Apple Macintosh before System 7(earlymacintosh.org)

93 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 66 comments

Real VT102 emulation with MAME (2020)(zork.net)

32 points by unleaded 2 years ago | 11 comments

The Multics Maclisp Compiler: The Basic Hackery – A Tutorial (1977)(multicians.org)

35 points by susam 2 years ago | 2 comments

Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01(seiya.me)

458 points by ingve 3 years ago | 112 comments

A blog post walking through the source code and internals of Linux v0.01, the roughly 10,000-line first release of the Linux kernel.

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel(0xkato.xyz)

428 points by 0xkato 1 year ago | 84 comments

A blog post explaining the Linux boot process step by step, from pressing the power button through firmware and bootloader to the first C code in the kernel.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.

Rat's Register Allocator(hexrat.cc)

53 points by mpweiher 16 days ago | 3 comments

Blog post describing how the rat compiler backend replaced its linear scan register allocator with a simpler priority bin-packing allocator for x86-64.

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers(crescentro.se)

457 points by sbt567 1 year ago | 63 comments

Blog post recounting how the author wrote a basic Linux USB driver for the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock using protocol docs from Nanoleaf support.