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Stories by lproven

Incus 0.1 (independent fork of Canonical's LXD) has been released (discuss.linuxcontainers.org)
What was the difference between Windows, Windows/286 & Windows/386? (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
History of the GEM Desktop Environment (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
A compiler for the Micron programming language - the Oberon with the power of C (github.com)
My new POWER Indigo 2 (thejpster.org.uk)
The Dying Computer Museum (ascii.textfiles.com)
ETH has published a Git repo of the latest version of Oberon/A2 (gitlab.inf.ethz.ch)
The "UNIX v4 tape" running in simh PDP11 emu on IRIX (oldbytes.space)
Debu.gs: Try Inferno without Installing It (debu.gs)
Serena: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers (github.com)
The real reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1 (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)
USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID (2003) (web.archive.org)
The History of Novell (abortretry.fail)
Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well (medium.com)
WordTsar – A Wordstar clone for the 21st Century (wordtsar.ca)
bitchat is a decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh networks (github.com)
This Month in Redox - February 2025 (redox-os.org)
UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix (fosdem.org)
Rest in Peace, Optane (2022) (specbranch.com)
Unix V4 tape recovered: first ever Unix written in C runs again (theregister.com)
w65c832: W65C832 (32 bit 6502) in an FPGA (github.com)
My teen years: Porting Small-C to transputer and developing my operating system (nanochess.org)
"Computers, back then": the story of ARRA, the first Dutch computer (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
Why MS Word jumped from version 2 to version 6 (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
purgatorio – the WIP 64-bit port of Inferno (git.9front.org)
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine (books.worksinprogress.co)
TAOS Operating System (uruk.org)
ClonOS: FreeBSD based distro for virtual hosting platform and appliances (clonos.convectix.com)