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Stories by lproven

Incus 0.1 (independent fork of Canonical's LXD) has been released (discuss.linuxcontainers.org)
L 19 pts 14 comments by lproven Oct 9, 2023 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
What was the difference between Windows, Windows/286 & Windows/386? (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)
L 18 pts 17 comments by lproven Feb 26, 2021 historicalwindows Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
History of the GEM Desktop Environment (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
L 17 pts 8 comments by lproven Sep 18, 2025 retrocomputing Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
A compiler for the Micron programming language - the Oberon with the power of C (github.com)
L 17 pts 1 comments by lproven Apr 9, 2025 programming Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
My new POWER Indigo 2 (thejpster.org.uk)
L 17 pts 1 comments by lproven Nov 25, 2024 retrocomputing Gaming / Retro Computing thread
The Dying Computer Museum (ascii.textfiles.com)
L 17 pts 10 comments by lproven Aug 19, 2024 culturehistorical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
ETH has published a Git repo of the latest version of Oberon/A2 (gitlab.inf.ethz.ch)
L 17 pts 6 comments by lproven Dec 10, 2022 educationosdevprogramming Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
The "UNIX v4 tape" running in simh PDP11 emu on IRIX (oldbytes.space)
L 15 pts 3 comments by lproven Dec 21, 2025 retrocomputingunix Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro Computing thread
Debu.gs: Try Inferno without Installing It (debu.gs)
L 15 pts 0 comments by lproven Dec 23, 2024 historicalosdev Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Serena: An experimental operating system for 32bit Amiga computers (github.com)
L 15 pts 15 comments by lproven Aug 20, 2024 osdevretrocomputing Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro Computing thread
The real reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1 (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
L 15 pts 8 comments by lproven May 6, 2022 windows thread
A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)
L 13 pts 5 comments by lproven Dec 13, 2024 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
USB Floppy Disk Drive RAID (2003) (web.archive.org)
L 12 pts 8 comments by lproven Dec 16, 2024 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The History of Novell (abortretry.fail)
L 12 pts 0 comments by lproven Apr 18, 2024 historicalnetworking Data / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well (medium.com)
L 12 pts 21 comments by lproven Aug 21, 2023 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
WordTsar – A Wordstar clone for the 21st Century (wordtsar.ca)
L 12 pts 10 comments by lproven Aug 18, 2023 programming Programming (General) thread
bitchat is a decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh networks (github.com)
L 11 pts 9 comments by lproven Jul 8, 2025 programming Programming (General) thread
This Month in Redox - February 2025 (redox-os.org)
L 11 pts 16 comments by lproven Mar 7, 2025 osdevrust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
L 11 pts 2 comments by lproven Dec 12, 2024 historical Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix (fosdem.org)
L 11 pts 5 comments by lproven Feb 13, 2024 osdevslidestranscriptvideovirtualization Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Rest in Peace, Optane (2022) (specbranch.com)
L 11 pts 8 comments by lproven Nov 29, 2023 hardwarehistorical Maker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Unix V4 tape recovered: first ever Unix written in C runs again (theregister.com)
HN 11 pts 5 comments by lproven Dec 23, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
w65c832: W65C832 (32 bit 6502) in an FPGA (github.com)
L 10 pts 4 comments by lproven Aug 22, 2025 hardwareretrocomputing Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro ComputingMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
My teen years: Porting Small-C to transputer and developing my operating system (nanochess.org)
L 10 pts 1 comments by lproven Mar 13, 2025 historicalosdevretrocomputing Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
"Computers, back then": the story of ARRA, the first Dutch computer (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
L 10 pts 5 comments by lproven Jul 26, 2024 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Why MS Word jumped from version 2 to version 6 (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
L 10 pts 8 comments by lproven Jul 22, 2022 historicalwindows Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
purgatorio – the WIP 64-bit port of Inferno (git.9front.org)
L 9 pts 0 comments by lproven Aug 2, 2025 osdevunix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine (books.worksinprogress.co)
L 9 pts 0 comments by lproven Aug 26, 2024 debugginghardwarehistorical Programming (General)Maker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
TAOS Operating System (uruk.org)
L 9 pts 3 comments by lproven Dec 18, 2022 historicalosdev Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
ClonOS: FreeBSD based distro for virtual hosting platform and appliances (clonos.convectix.com)
L 8 pts 0 comments by lproven Sep 2, 2025 freebsdosdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread