🖥️ Computing History - tyler · Scour

Continuing the story of early DOS development 💾Retro Computing

opensource.microsoft.com·2d·Hacker News, Hacker News

Transcribing the Source of the First DOS for the IBM PC 💾Retro Computing

hackaday.com·12h

Why AI Struggles With Legacy Code and Institutional Knowledge 🤨AI Criticism

hackernoon.com·3d

Recovering 86-DOS from Paper 💾Retro Computing

jscarsbrook.me·8h·Hacker News

Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) 🕹️Terminal Games

nikhiljha.com·2d·Lobsters, Hacker News

Talks from SD&M "Software Pioneers", Bonn, June 2001 : sd&m : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming 🌍Distributed Systems

archive.org·6d·Hacker News

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" 💾Retro Computing

arstechnica.com

·8h·Hacker News

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code 🌐Open Source

zdnet.com·2d·Hacker News

The A.I. Fear Keeping Silicon Valley Up at Night ✍️Tech Essays

·14h·Hacker News

The Countess and the Engine 🔲Cellular Automata

drdavidwbell.substack.com·2d·Substack

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 🧠AI

talkie-lm.com·3d·Lobsters, Hacker News, r/LLM, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity

Earliest 86-DOS and PC-DOS code released as open source 🕹️Terminal Games

osnews.com·1d·Hacker News

Running DOS and Unix on an 8-bit Commodore (2024) [video] 💾Retro Computing

archive.fosdem.org·3d·Hacker News

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative 🧠AI

theregister.com·2d·Hacker News

Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field? 🤨AI Criticism

resobscura.substack.com·1d·Substack

Beware software brain 🤨AI Criticism

anderegg.ca·6d·Hacker News

DOS-History/Paterson-Listings: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS printouts. ⚙️Assembly

github.com·1d·Hacker News

Who Asked For This? ✍️Tech Essays

calnewport.com·3d·Hacker News

On the Limits of Self-Improving in Large Language Models: The Singularity Is Not Near Without Symbolic Model Synthesis 🔲Cellular Automata

arxiv.org·2d·Lobsters

Tech has a ton of layoffs and AI disruption and the rest of corporate America doesn't. One Silicon Valley CEO knows why 🤨AI Criticism

·2d·Hacker News

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